INSPIRE DATABASE
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a database that will contain environmental data from across the European Union (EU), as it proposed a directive harmonising the way that national governments record such information. The idea of the INSPIRE (INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in the European Union) initiative is to enable environmental policy makers to draw on data culled from across the EU, rather than being limited to national information. Said the Commission: "At present, information on rivers, road networks and other geographical ...
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