Promoting Land Administration and Good Governance by SDI – The European Way

rules for the establishment of an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe focussing on environmental issues. The INSPIRE work programme comprises three phases, namely the Preparatory phase (2005-2006), the Transposition phase(2007-2008) and the Implementation phase (2009-2013). The most important goal of the preparatory phase starting in 2005 is to formulate so called ‚Implementing Rules‘. To support the whole INSPIRE process pilots and prototypes will be used for test purposes. In this context the paper will present a current project initiative in Germany, which is one of the INSPIRE member states. Within the project user needs were identified for a specified project domain, use case scenarios were described and benefit of implementing an interoperability-based solution in a real case were determined. In the current pre-operational stage of INSPIRE such a project can help to gain real case implementation knowledge, in that case mainly at the local administration level. The following components are addressed in the project, partly at the original local level, partly in conjunction with the national and regional levels, respectively: metadata, spatial data themes subdivided into the basic data domain and into the municipal data domain, spatial data services, agreements on access and use