Open Maps for Europe: Find open maps of European countries on
data.europa.eu!
A recent addition to the data.europa.eu [https://data.europa.eu]
portal is the Open Maps for Europe [https://www.mapsforeurope.org/]
metadata catalogue, providing open maps of more than 40 European
countries. The online service enables users to discover, visualise,
license and download datasets created using official maps, geospatial
and land information from official national sources. 

The Open Maps for Europe project is coordinated by EuroGeographics
[https://eurogeographics.org/], a non-profit membership association
working together with National Mappings, Cadastres and Land Registry
Authorities (NMCAs) in Europe to gather official and detailed
geospatial data. The collaboration between these NMCAs to share and
collect data can contribute to the public good. Therefore, the aim of
Open Maps for Europe is to share pan-European datasets, make them more
accessible to a wider audience and connect users from official
national sources. 

The collected data has resulted in six datasets on Open Maps for
Europe, which are: 

 	* EuroGlobalMap
[https://www.mapsforeurope.org/datasets/euro-global-map]: a 1:1
million scale topographic dataset covering European countries and
territories.
 	* EuroRegionalMap
[https://www.mapsforeurope.org/datasets/euro-regional-map]:
topographic information at 1:250.000 scale that can be used in several
ways, such as spatial analysis or marketing planning and
socio-economic analysis.
 	* EuroDEM (digital elevation model)
[https://www.mapsforeurope.org/datasets/euro-dem]: describes the
distribution of terrain and heights. 
 	* Open Cadastral Map
[https://www.mapsforeurope.org/datasets/cadastral-all]: a single,
under construction place to find a specific European cadastral map.
More coverage will be added over time.
 	* Pan-European Imagery
[https://www.mapsforeurope.org/datasets/pan-european-imagery]: allows
the integration of pre-processed and processed remote sensing
information of the Copernicus Earth observation programme
[https://www.copernicus.eu/en].
 	* Open Gazetteer
[https://www.mapsforeurope.org/datasets/open-gazetteer]: provides
authoritative geographical names as described by the NMCAs.

With all the geospatial and land information available at the national
scale, Open Maps for Europe provides easy access to pan-European data.
Find their datasets
[https://data.europa.eu/data/catalogues/eurogeographics?locale=en] on
data.europa.eu [https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en]!

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Publication Date/Time
2023-04-17T09:00:00+00:00
Open Maps for Europe, coordinated by EuroGeographics, provides easy
access to maps of European countries