SWG Objectives
The objective of CROSS-SIS project is “To enhance the use of spatial data, as a crucial source for spatial decision making in cross-border settings”.

The general objectives of the proposal are:

• Show how Spatial Information Systems can be a strategic tool and contribute to the strategic objectives and decision-making process in cross-border regions.
• Supply solutions/services for cross-border spatial information use by the customers in the European Regions.
• Promote spatial data as a decisive component for spatial decision making in cross-border scenarios.
• Achieve greater efficiency in the acquisition, maintenance, management and distribution of spatial information at both a regional and cross-regional level.
• Optimise and share investment, human resources, and technology applied to spatial information in cross-border regions.
• Promote the modernisation of the regional administrations and the use of INSPIRE to arrive at e-government.
• Promote spatial data as a crucial component of the information society under development.
• Provide a reference for collaboration for other institutions and regions.

The specific operational objectives of the project are:

• Exchange of best-practices of the Spatial Information Systems of each region and the cross-border initiatives implemented.
• Analysis of the technical, organisational and normative issues and definition of the implementation strategy for setting up cross-border SIS services in two application areas.
• Implement these technical and organisational guidelines in two application scenarios: one focused on statistical and reference data (i.e. information for Spatial Planning), and a second scenario on other application area (water management, SCI's, urban planning…).
• Disseminate the results of Cross-SIS project to the RFO network and to the GIS&SDI sector.