Through many years of experience in delivering pan-European datasets, EuroGeographics, its technical data production team and users, have identified technical challenges in producing seamless and harmonised datasets from official national sources. These challenges have been grouped into five main topic areas: generalisation, edge-matching, harmonisation, quality and life-cycle management.

We recently ran a survey asking your views on the five topic areas which are barriers to seamless pan-European data. The high-level results were presented at the TDKEN/SDQ 2023 meeting last week. We are now embarking on a series of on-line meetings to delve into the results of each of the topic area to identify the gaps and issues for each of the topic areas. And see how we can advance knowledge exchange and learnings in the topic areas.

We invited EuroGeographics members and external stakeholders on October 26th to the first of these on-line meetings which looked at generalisation and harmonisation. This second on-line meeting dealt with the topics of Edgematching, Quality, & Life Cycle Management.

The agenda was as follows:

• Welcome to the meeting
• Introduction to the topic Edge-matching
• Facilitated discussion - All are invited to contribute
• Introduction to the topic Quality
• Facilitated discussion - All are invited to contribute
• Comfort break
• Introduction to the topic Life-cycle management
• Facilitated discussion - All are invited to contribute
• Next steps
• Meeting close

The presentation of the webinar can be found here.