Since 2008 Sparx Systems has been supporting international communities to improve how spatial data is held by public authorities to support environmental policy.

Enterprise Architect has been used to improve the harmonization of spatial data and facilitate the interoperability of spatial services, ensuring greater sharing of the data between public authorities and on-line access by the public.

INSPIRE was founded on the basis of five issues that were identified as presenting obstacles to this objective: missing or incomplete spatial data, incomplete descriptions of spatial data, difficulty to combine different spatial data sets, inaccessibility of spatial data and various barriers to data sharing.

Issue No 52 of the EC European Forum for Science and Industry newsletter, published in May 2015, highlights the success of the INSPIRE JRC and Sparx Systems relationship involving “ technical leadership in creating this spatial data infrastructure, coordinating the work of hundreds of experts from the public and private sectors in Europe to develop the common standards for spatial data for environmental related policy making.”