The Report on Activities for the Establishment, Maintenance and Development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure for 2019 provides an overview of legal, institutional and implementation activities within NSDI, based on Directive 2007/2/EC which establishes the Spatial Information Infrastructure in the European Community (INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe – INSPIRE Directive). The Report highlighted visible progress in the establishment of the NSDI, which is reflected in greater availability of public sector spatial data in a transparent and interoperable manner through the NSDI Geoportal. There is a significant increase in the number of network services registered in 2019, which is 32% higher than in 2018. NSDI Registers are regularly maintained so by the end of 2019, 37 different institutions were registered in the Register of NSDI subjects, which reported 423 different sources of spatial data to the NSDI Register of Spatial Data Sources. The State Geodetic Administration held a series of workshops and an annual conference to educate, strengthen capacity and spread awareness about NSDI.
In November 2019, the GeoHrvatska browser was launched, which simply and intuitively enables the user to get to know and explore the space that surrounds him with the help of its location, using the official spatial data of NSDI subjects.
During 2019, the State Geodetic Administration signed two agreements co-financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds. The project “Capacity building for the establishment of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure” is co-financed by the European Social Fund, and aims to strengthen the existing capacities of the State Geodetic Administration at the level of National Contact Point and local promoters, and to raise the level of NSDI knowledge at the local, regional and national level. The project “Increasing the availability of NSDI spatial data through e-services” is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the main goal of this project is to increase the availability of spatial data of public authorities, i.e., NSDI subjects by developing network services harmonized with INSPIRE rules.
In addition to these activities and the progress made, a further investment by public authorities is needed to make spatial data available for re-use and to meet the obligations regarding the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive.
You can view the Government of the Republic of Croatia session at which the Report was adopted via the link.