This is crucial for the players in the European GIS arena which is a niche and dynamic market serving national needs. Transformation and Transaction Management Language specification represent a big step towards standardisation for data transfers across national and organisational boundaries in Europe. It will be a distributed framework to change visual cartographic repositories, when managed by several actors in parallel. Technology providers can exploit both the software tools for implementing data update solutions for geographic data, data history and semantic references in a secured way and also the innovative methods regarding data bases update management process for providing value added technical assistance. Four user partners can exploit the applications and can benefit from sharing data, knowledge and resources of updated information.
Industrial partners aim to exploit the project results.
They are co-operating in the development of software components specific to the needs of Public Administration. The project users group, already list several hundred installation. There is an agreement with the central headquarters to install the infrastructure in all local offices as soon as software solutions are available.