Your input to this questionnaire is valuable in that it will help determine and define the Implementing Rules that will complement the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive. This will ensure that your views are considered when the Directive becomes law and the Implementing Rules are applied to your information and data.

The purpose of this questionnaire is to provide the INSPIRE Data Specifications Drafting Team with the current status of practices in your organisation, in order to know if the envisaged Implementing Rules are feasible.

Please note that even incomplete answers are useful, so please do complete the questionnaire as far as you can.

It is planned to use the conceptual modelling framework of the ISO 19100 series of International Standards as the basis for modelling application schemas, i.e. spatial and temporal characteristics of spatial objects will be based on ISO 19107 (spatial schema), ISO 19108 (temporal schema) and ISO 19123 (schema for coverage geometry and functions).

It is well-known that ISO standards cover a very wide range of spatial and temporal aspects, however only a part of these components is commonly employed by data providers, data users and existing software. One task of the Drafting Team is to identify and recommend the simplest possible set of spatial and temporal components.

The recommended elements of spatial and temporal objects will be validated against reference material (data and documentation available to the Drafting Team).

While answering this questionnaire summarise how the elements of spatial and temporal schema are used in your organisation. However, include even those elements that are rarely used, in order that we have a complete picture.

A downloadable version of the questionnaire is available. Given the fairly technical and detailed contents of the questionnaire, we strongly advise using the download option only for the purpose of preparing your answers, before submitting your final answers online.

To submit your answers just click on the "Submit button" at the end of the on-line questionnaire.

You should also be aware that, pursuant to Regulation (EC)1049/2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, requests for access to the names of respondents and the contents of their answers may be submitted by third-parties following the closure of this consultation. Personal data will only be disclosed in accordance with the legislation on data protection (Regulation (EC)45/2001).

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