What does INSPIRE stand for?

Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (EU directive)

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Information technology (IT) and computers
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Samples in periodicals archive:

The project will participate in the European Commission's (EC) INSPIRE, INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe, an initiative to create European legislation to guide national and regional spatial data infrastructure development, as well as ongoing activities of the Open GIS Consortium.

University of Zaragoza, Spain to Advance Data Interoperability in ...

The GINIE project will provide strategic input to the new European Commission initiative developing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE), organize the 8th EC GIS Workshop in Dublin in July 2002, and contribute to the international debate taking place at the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference in Budapest in September 2002.

OGCE a Partner in Major European Geographic Information Effort