The INSPIRE encouraged the company to create a spatial information portal of Lithuania (www.geoportal.lt). SE National Centre of Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics "GIS-Centras" is the company where the most implementing activities of the INSPIRE directive while creating spatial portal – geoportal.lt happens. The company creates a truly national gateway for spatial data access and distribution. "GIS-Centras" collaborates with different governmental agencies and private sector companies in order to create a national framework for the spatial data for serving different community needs.

 

The national spatial information portal geoportal.lt allows to access and share information among the organizations on the World Wide Web. It helps to reduce the time of search and access to spatial data. Geoportal.lt benefits for the society are without any doubts. It connects people, many organizations, and the business world. The INSPIRE implementation through the geoportal.lt lets for "GIS-Centras" to progress in terms of raising the number of employees, gaining knowledge, new experiences, and new business opportunities.

 

Year		SME: GIS-Centras:		INSPIRE
2003	Over 30 people  became happier.	Ca. 5 people thinking of geographic data sharing and developing ideas of geographic data harmonization. Looking for powerful partners. Beginning of the project for the development of spatial information infrastructure of Lithuania (LSII).	Every year increasing the number of spatial information access via WWW	First discussions
2004				Preparatory activities
2005
2006
2007		LSII and geoportal.lt under development. Lots of work, innovation, and enthusiasm.		Directive establishing INSPIRE
2008				Commencement
2009		Geoportal.lt together with LSII launched! Metadata, spatial data available. Knowledge growing. New structure of the company. Success–legitimating LSII and geoportal.lt!		Implementation of INSPIRE Specification
2010		Implementation of INSPIRE discovery service in LSII. New smart people joining our team. New partners, data, services, applications and ideas.
2011
2012		8 people work directly with LSII, geoportal.lt Additionally 4 people "outsourced" for activities regarding INSPIRE Generation of new project for future development of the LSII and geoportal.lt regarding INSPIRE and growing users requirements.
2013		The project starts! New challenges for us.

 

The INSPIRE contributed a lot to the innovative and necessary project for Lithuania - geoportal.lt. Geoportal.lt creates a new way to interact, search and share recourses. The reliable, up-to-date, unique, from the primary source, and valuable spatial information are the criterion the geoportal.lt is following. Open data in the portal shares the knowledge and culture of Lithuania. The spatial data ensures that everything is in the right place – from the industrial decision where a mistake can cause serious environmental threats to the simple citizen choice of living or traveling.

 

Many highly innovative geoportal.lt based features raised since the portal was launched. The project of geoportal.lt gives an input for the new, wide range projects while exchanging and sharing data and knowledge between different organizations. The involvement of geoportal.lt in the various business fields counts many success stories. The geoportal.lt performs providing health, education, and other opportunities for the citizens.  A lot of attention in society got an ecological farms website where the geoportal.lt map and functionality have been used. Moreover, the land information system services and search in the land use projects are integrated in the geoportal.lt which are popular among the cadastre managers, municipal officers, and others. Effective communication is essential for better country management in all areas. Geoportal.lt creates the environment for innovative, original, and scientific ideas for society.

 

Enormous amounts of information should be filtered, collected, and classified so that people could use it easily and fast. Geoportal.lt provides such an opportunity and creates many more opportunities for everyone who needs or is interested in geographic information. The number of the geoportal.lt users increase constantly and this increase in users confirms that the project is necessary for the people. Geoportal.lt is one of the success factors of the company "GIS-Centras". Geoportal.lt recourses became networked and a starting point for the other projects. It brings a significant value for the country, for the different private companies, and for each citizen personally.