EuroGeographics encourages wider use of pan-European geoinformation by extending Open Data coverage - Directions Magazine

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-05-03

Summary:

"More than 1,500 users have downloaded pan-European data from EuroGeographics since its 1:1 million scale topographical database, EuroGlobalMap was released as as Open Data.  A survey examining how EuroGlobalMap is being used revealed a wide range of applications including air traffic analysis, emergency services accessibility studies, mobile mapping, demographic and socio economic analysis, hydrology and ferry line mapping. It has also helped to create archaeological distribution maps and energy and environment models, and been well received by those working in the education sector ... Providing EuroGlobalMap free of charge under an Open Data licence as part of a Freemium model has introduced hundreds of people to the benefits of EuroGeographics pan-European products: EuroBoundaryMap - a seamless geo-database at the scale 1:100 000 covering 41 countries; EuroRegionalMap - seamless and harmonised topo-geographic information at 1: 250 000 scale covering 33 European countries; and EuroDEM - a digital elevation model ..."

Link:

http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/eurogeographics-encourages-wider-use-of-pan-european-geoinformation-by/397237

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oa.new oa.comment oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.data oa.geodata oa.eurogeographics oa.euroglobalmap oa.business_models oa.freemium oa.libre

Date tagged:

05/03/2014, 08:56

Date published:

05/03/2014, 04:56