OME2 Project

OME2 has delivered:

• A new production process and technical specification for free-to-use- high-value data from multiple European countries under a single open licence.
• A prototype for harmonised, edge-matched large-scale pan-European datasets covering 10 countries and aligned to key EU Policy objectives and UN core geospatial data recommendations.
• Enhancements to the five existing Open Maps For Europe datasets, including the pilot Open Cadastral Map.
• An infrastructure, process and tools for members, partners or key stakeholders who wish to use them to fund and create pan-European, harmonised, edge matched High Value Data in the future.

Benefits

• Addresses the challenge of finding, easily accessing and licensing authoritative pan-European harmonised edge-matched, large-scale, high-value geospatial data.
• Saves users time, effort and resources by providing harmonized data from multiple countries through one central portal under one easy-to-understand open data licence.
• Supports NMCAs in implementing rules for the Open Data and reuse of Public Sector Information Directive by re-using OME2 techniques nationally and sharing good practices.
• Advances the data sharing tools needed to deliver free-flowing, interoperable data for the single market.
• Demonstrates how demand for geospatial information in all common data spaces of the European Strategy for Data can be met.

The OME2 project, co-funded by the European Union, is being delivered by a consortium comprising: EuroGeographics; National Geographic Institute, Belgium; National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information, France; Hellenic Cadastre; General Directorate for the Cadastre, Spain; and Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency, The Netherlands. The project concluded on the 31st December 2025.