Paikkatietolainaamo.fi

Spatial data lending facility - in English

Operational since the year 2003, the Spatial Data Lending Service (Paikkatietolainaamo) delivers spatial data sets in their native GI format, free of charge. The downloaded data sets may be used for one year for testing, research, education and product development.

The service idea has been acknowledged byt National Council of Geographic Information in the National Geographic Information Strategy (2004) and it forms part of the Finnish spatial data infrastructure.

Spatial Data Lending Service is currently operational only in Finnish language. The service idea is presented in the posters and texts below.

Article in Geoinformatics magazine, October/November 2007	Data lending service – a novel service idea of the Finnish NSDI (PDF)
Abstract in EC GIS & GIS Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, June 2006	Data lending service – a novel service idea of the Finnish NSDI (PDF)
Presentation in EC GIS & GIS Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, June 2006	Towards improved access to geographical information: Case Spatial Data Lending Facility (PDF)
Abstract in the AGILE Conference, Estoril, Portugal, May 2005	Spatial data lending facility – Test service for comparison of GI data sets (PDF)
Poster in the AGILE 2005 Conference, Estoril, Portugal, May 2005	Spatial data lending - Mechanism to enable comparison and testing of GI data sets: Mechanism to enable comparison and testing of GI data sets: a Finnish addition to INSPIRE services (PDF)