InGeoCloudS is a european project co-funded by the European Commission under The Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme. It involved, from 2012 to 2014, 30 IT experts and geoscientists, coming from 8 different teams and 5 countries. It aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of employing a cloud-based infrastructure coupled with the necessary services to provide seamless access to geospatial public sector information, especially targeting the geological, geophysical and other geoscientific information.

On top of the basic cloud services such as OGC WMS, WFS and CSW, the project demonstrated the ability to build more intelligent services by using and combining data seamlessly integrated through the cloud. Linked Open Data principles and technologies were used. Based on the gained experience, the project provided guidelines in order to support the partners and other stakeholders of public information in their efforts to move more of their services and data to the cloud in order to decide the best possible roadmap, the requirements of the underlying infrastructure that will be chosen as a host, the requirements for the services and the possible pros and cons of these choices. In summary the project provided the necessary documentation, the related analysis, the roadmap and a set of working services to support organizations that need to move large amounts of public sector information to the cloud.