1Spatial Chosen for European Location Framework Project

1Spatial Group Limited is taking a consortium role in the European Location Framework (ELF) project, set up to deliver up-to-date, authoritative, interoperable, cross-border reference geo-data to be accessed by the European public and private sectors.

The project is being supported by a consortium of partners across Europe.  The work is being co-funded by the European Commission and represents a total project investment of EUR13million over the three year term of the project.

ELF will deliver a pan-European cloud service built on the work of the INSPIRE directive. The INSPIRE directive came into force in 2007 and was established to create a European Union spatial data infrastructure, to share data among public sector organisations and better facilitate public access to spatial data across the region.

ELF, launched in March 2013, has been designed to grow the wider use of geo-information and enable the creation of innovative value-added services. This includes encouraging content creation by SMEs both inside and outside the consortium.

The project will define the role of geospatial date in Europe and is a signpost for a global geospatial management system for the future, said Marcus Hanke, commented Marcus Hanke, chief executive of 1Spatial.

The consortium is committed to supporting the ELF Platform beyond the end of the project, to create a trustworthy and sustainable framework of public sector reference geo-data in various levels of detail. The consortium consists of 30 partners across Europe.  UK partners involved in the project, in addition to 1Spatial, include Europa Technologies Limited, Ordnance Survey Great Britain, Snowflake Software Limited, Open Geospatial Consortium Limited and Netrius Management Services Limited.

To find out more visit www.elfproject.eu