Availability and Accessibility of Hydrography and Hydrogeology Spatial Data in Europe through INSPIRE

Hydrography and hydrogeology data contain spatial references as such are part of infrastructure. On the European level, these infrastructure, well known INSPIRE. The objective INSPIRE is to make public available accessible for a broad range users in simple, interoperable, efficient way. Spatial play an important role facilitating integration, enabling data-driven decision making on where why things happen easing communication through intuitive visualizations. Within this paper, we take opportunity reflect development implementation INSPIRE, with main focus availability accessibility hydrography data. By availability, aim existence metadata describing data, while by accessibility, related services viewing downloading. overall findings, based analysis Geoportal, shows that still not fully available, although deadline has already passed. Data also issue. even infrastructure sometimes accessible. However, technological developments recent policy initiatives could be drivers future improvement.