EuroGeographics

ISO-TC211/EC-JRC/EuroGeographics webinar on Data Spaces
2025-06-05 10:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Brussels)
This webinar on Data Spaces was jointly organised by the International Standardization Organisation, ISO/TC211, European Commission/Joint Research Center and EuroGeographics.
The agenda was as follows:

Welcome – EuroGeographics, Patricia Sokacova & ISO/TC211, Mats ÅHLIN
Introduction EU landscape – Jordi ESCRIU, European Commission/Joint Research Center
Introduction IDSA – Anil TURKMAYALI, International Data Space Association
Location Europe DataSpace – Antti JAKOBSSON, NLS Finland
ISO/TC211 Input to EU Data Spaces – Jari REINI, NLS Finland
Open discussion and next steps – All
Close

Some questions from the audience could not be answered during the webinar. Jordi Escriu has provided the answers in this document.
Webinar Recording (Open in YouTube)

Webinar: Unlock the Power of Location and AI – New online course available
2025-06-05 10:00 - 11:00
Introducing a new online course: Location & AI for Dummies
Drive Business with Location Intelligence and AI! How can geospatial data and artificial intelligence transform your organisation?
Join us to find out how GeoAI – the powerful combination of location data and AI – can create new business opportunities, enable smarter decision-making and provide deeper customer insights.
In this webinar, we will introduce our new, practical, beginner-level course, which is tailored to European directors, managers and consultants who wish to understand the business potential of GeoAI. The course is provided in English, produced by Location Innovation Hub and published in collaboration with OGC.
Programme of the webinar:

Why Location Matters in the Age of AI, Nigel Edmead, OGC
The European Perspective on Location Innovation, Antti Jakobsson, Location Innovation Hub
Course Introduction: Location & AI for Dummies by Eeva Sankari, Location Innovation Hub
Course content and objectives
Benefits for those who complete the course
Q & A – Ask Us Anything!
The advanced course “Deep dive to Location and AI” will be available in the autumn – you will hear more about it in this webinar.
Closing remarks by Nigel Edmead

Sign up now here for the webinar and take your organisation to the next level with GeoAI: https://link.webropol.com/ep/location-and-ai
The course will be available for use on 5th June and you can find the course at https://academy.ogc.org/
More information about the Location & AI courses: https://locationinnovationhub.eu/en/location-ai-courses/

UN-GGIM: Europe webinar series: SDG 11.7.1
2025-06-04 10:00 - 12:00
The webinar took place on the 4th of June from 10:00 to 12:00 CEST.
To access the concept note and recording of this webinar, please click here.

EuroGeographics General Assembly 2025
2025-05-18 19:00 - 2025-05-20 22:00
The EuroGeographics General Assembly 2025 was held in Riga, Latvia from 18th to 20th May 2025.

The agenda is available here.
The minutes are available here.
General Assembly Highlights and Reflections are available here.
Presentations of the 2025 General Assembly
Day 1

No
Title
Presenter
Size KB

1
Welcome by the host of the General Assembly
Martins Liberts, Latvian Geospatial Information Agency
4.8

2
Welcome by the host of the General Assembly
Vita Narnicka, State Land Service, Latvia
6.4

3
Outline of Agenda and setting the scene
Sallie Payne Snell, EuroGeographics
679

4
25th Anniversary – Looking back at EuroGeographics’ history (Video)
Sallie Payne Snell, EuroGeographics
Opens in YouTube

5
Keynote
Karl Hamilton, European Environment Agency
5.2

6
The Future of EuroGeographics (Video)
Sallie Payne Snell, EuroGeographics
Opens in YouTube

7
The big picture: Digital Transformation
Serena Coetzee, UN-GGIM Geodesy Centre of Excellence
1.3

8
GNSS Interference in Aviation
Ricardo Oliveira, Eurocontrol
819

9
The Need for Enhanced Focus on Geodetic Reference Frames to Meet the Future Demands of Geospatial Data Management
Per Erik Opseth, Kartverket, Norway
2.2

10
The challenge of building capacity and ensuring equality and diversity
Conor Cahalane, EuroSDR
798

11
From Caterpillar to Butterfly – The challenge of building a modern organisation
Ingrid Vanden Berghe, NGI Belgium
2.1

12
Open Data policies vs Security – Perparation for the Data Union Strategy
Jiři Pilar, DG Connect, European Commission
1.1

13
Copernicus’ data and information policy
Catharina Bamps, DG DEFIS, European Commission
1.3

14
Competing Policy Drivers: Open vs Secure
Hannah Cook, Kartverket, Norway
796

Day 2

1
Keynote: AI and Digital Twinning for Air Traffic Control
Marc Thomas, Project Blue bird, NAT
3.1

2
Opportunities and challenges for NMCAs in an ever-changing technical landscape
Jordi Escriu, JRC, European Commission
3.1

3
AI and Future Tech
Ian Schuler, Development Seed
3.5

4
AI Enabled GIS – Working with us or against us?
Nick Land, ESRI Europe
8.6

5
NMCAs response to global challenges
Marta Nagy-Rothengass, Eurostat, European Commission
1.8

6
Way forward with Earth Observation in the actual climate crisis
Inge Jonckheere, European Space Agency (ESA)
9.9

7
Climate change in Latvia and tools for risk management
Andris Viksna, Latvian Hydrometeorological Service
5.3

8
EuroGeographics Data Proposition
Sallie Payne Snell, EuroGeographics
1.2

9
Management Board Report to 2025 General Assembly
Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu, BKG Germany
2.1

10
EuroGeographics Formal Business
Sallie Payne Snell, EuroGeographics
1.5

11
General Assembly 2026
Ingrid Vanden Berghe, NGI Belgium

UNGGIM Europe Webinar - The contribution of EO to 15.3.1 indicator
2025-05-14 10:00 - 12:00
To access the concept note and register for this event, please click here.

UNGGIM Europe Webinar: The contribution of EO to 6.6.1 indicator
2025-05-12 10:00 - 12:00
To access the concept note of this webinar and to register for this event, please click here.

Joint PCC/EuroGeographics CLR KEN Conference and Plenary
2025-05-05 09:30 - 2025-05-06 17:00
The joint event was held from 5 to 6 May 2025 as a physical meeting in the premises of the Warsaw National Stadium under the Polish Presidency, kindly hosted by the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography GUGIK.
The main topics of the conference were:

The cadastral system
3D and 4D cadastre
AI in cadastre
Development of the Cadastral Strategy for Europe under the Open Maps for Europe 2 Project

The final agenda is available here.
Presentations Day 1

No
Title
Presenter

01
Polish Cadastre
Alicja Kulka

02
Introduction and results of the questionnaire
Marcin Grudzien

03
Organisational and Operational Impact of new Technologies in the Cadastral Domain
Martin Salzmann

04
Best Practices in Co-operation and Handling Systems
Magdalena Andersson & Elisabeth Olsson

05
Possibilities for Latvian Cadastre in Digitising Processes
Vents Priedolins

06
The Belgian Pre-cadastration Process
Jolien Neckebroeck

07
Moldova’s Progress in the Field of Cadastre
Cristina Telpiz-Burlac

08
Rationalizing the applicative landscape of Cadastral IT System: the Challenge of Locally-Initiated Software
Thomas Guegan

Day 2

09
3D Cadastre in Slovenia
Ema Pogorelcnik

10
Using AI to Improve Data Quality and Citizen Interaction
Miguel Ancochea Nodal

11
Examples of AI Applications in Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography
Anna Bober

12

Development of the new Strategy for Cadastre
Open Cadastral Maps

Panos Lolonis
Hara Papadaki

13
Specifics of maintaining the State Land Cadastre under the Martial Law
Dmytro Makarenko

14
CLGE update
Nele Vanhoutte

15
Danish Cadastre and Invitation to the next Joint Conference
Pia Åbo Østergaard

Geospatial World Forum (GWF)
2025-04-22 09:00 - 2025-04-25 17:00 | Madrid Marriott Auditorium, Madrid, Spain
For information on this event, please visit these pages.

Quality KEN Virtual Spring Plenary
2025-04-02 10:00 - 2025-04-03 12:15
The Quality KEN Virtual Spring Plenary meeting was held on Wednesday and Thursday 2 – 3 April 2025 as a three-sessions event.
The agenda is available here (31/03/2025).
Presentations:

No
Title
Presenter

1
EuroGeographics Head Office News
Patricia Sokacova

2
National Reports
Tamas Palya

3
Feedback Questionnaire Results
Raitis Bolsakovs

4
Future Meetings
Karin Mertens

5
Update on GreenData4All – public consultation
Marjana Zelic

6
Visualization of quality of the cadastral boundaries in the Dutch Kadaster
Eric Hagemans

7
Collaboration or on-line census at the Spanish Cadastre
Fernando Serrano

8
QC of third-party data at Tailte Éireann
Fergus Fahey

9
Quality assessment of the integration of regional buildings at NGI Belgium
Joren Van Gysegem

2025 GISCO Working Group meeting on integration of statistical and geospatial information
2025-03-24 08:00 - 2025-03-25 17:00 | Luxembourg
The 2025 GISCO Working Group meeting on integration of statistical and geospatial information took place in Luxembourg.

Members Webinar Series - OME2: On the development of a Pan European Strategy for open cadastral maps
2025-03-20 10:30 - 11:30
The agenda of this webinar was as follows:

Introduction & welcome – Patricia Sokacova, EuroGeographics
On the development of a Pan European Strategy for open cadastral maps – Panos Lolonis & Hara Papadaki, Hellenic Cadastre
Q&A via Sli.do and close

Webinar Recording (Opens in YouTube)

Technical Data Producers Kick off Webinar 2025
2025-03-13 10:30 - 12:30
The Production Management Team invited the Technical Data Producers to attend the Webinar on March 13th to discuss the production plans for 2025. The presentations of the webinar can be accessed below.

Welcome

Angela Baker (EuroGeographics)

ERM/EBM Production
Tim Trautmann (BKG)

ERM Validator
Jasper Bruns (KAD-NL)

ERM Regional Coordinator Welcome
Paolo Pensalfini (IGMI)

EGM
Vincent Beauce (IGN-F)

Update on OME2 and EuroGeographics Data Sustainability
Angela Baker (EuroGeographics)

Questions/AOB
PMT (EuroGeographics)

Data Spaces Symposium 2025
2025-03-11 09:00 - 2025-03-12 17:00 | Hilton Warsaw City, Warsaw, Poland
For information on this symposium, please visit these pages.

Policy Coffee Chat
2025-03-06 10:30 - 11:15
The Policy Coffee Chat is the best way to be well informed on what is happening around you, to identify and communicate issues that matter to you.
We introduced the latest policy developments and exchanged views on this occasion. One of the discussion topics was the recently published public consultation on the GreenData4All initiative. For preparation for this discussion, it was suggested to read this questionnaire.

Members Webinar Series - Surveyors’ insights on solar potential
2025-02-20 10:30 - 11:30
The agenda of this webinar was as follows:

Introduction and welcome – Patricia Sokacova, EuroGeographics
“Providing insights to realize the potential of solar energy in Spain” – Celia Sevilla Sánchez, IGN Spain
Q&A via sli.do

Webinar Recording (Opens in YouTube)

Geospatial Intelligence for Defense & Security - DGI Conference
2025-02-10 09:00 - 2025-02-12 17:00 | Queen Elizabeth II Centre London, Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London, United Kingdom
For more information on this conference, please visit these pages.

Joint EuroSDR and EuroGeographics Workshop: Geometadata Production and Usage
2025-02-07 09:30 - 17:00 | 8 avenue Pasteur, 94 160 Saint Mandé FRANCE, 8 avenue Pasteur, Saint Mandé, 94160, France
This workshop was a follow-up of EuroSDR-EuroGeographics activity on geodata discoverability as well as of EuroSDR activity on Linked (meta)data. It aimed to gain insight on making the most of existing technologies to engineer geo-metadata as well as engaging with academics to work on that topic.
For more information on the workshop and the agenda, please click here.

EuroGeographics End of Year Festive Members' Webinar
2024-12-12 10:30 - 23:30
The annual festive edition of our webinar provided an overview of all activities and tasks delivered throughout the year.
The presentation can be accessed here.
Webinar Recording (Opens in YouTube)

European Forum for Geography and Statistics (EFGS)
2024-12-10 08:00 - 2024-12-12 17:00 | Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia
For more information on this conference, please visit this page.

Members Webinar Series - European Policy Update
2024-11-21 10:30 - 11:30
As the new European Parliament and European Commission cycle start, we provided an update on European policy that is relevant to EuroGeographics members. We were happy to welcome Camilla Kaeraa from DG-Connect who provided an overview of the Data Act. We then followed with some policy development updates from Marjana Zelic. Participants had the opportunity to ask questions during the webinar.
The agenda of this webinar was as follows:

Introduction and context – Carol Agius, EuroGeographics
Update on the European Data Act – Camilla Kaeraa, DG-Connect – European Commission
Q&A via Sli.do
Policy developments updates – Marjana Zelic, EuroGeographics
Data Spaces Support Centre Strategic Stakeholders Forum Data – Angela Baker, EuroGeographics
Q&A via Sli.do and close

Webinar Recording (Opens in YouTube)

CLRKEN Plenary and Joint PCC/EuroGeographics workshop
2024-11-20 09:00 - 2024-11-21 17:00
The Autumn CLRKEN Plenary meeting will be held on 20th November in Riga, Latvia as a physical meeting, followed by the Joint PCC-EuroGeographics Workshop on 21st November which will be a hybrid event.
The event will be organised in a hybrid way with the CLRKEN core team members, the PCC Steering Committee members, the PCC Secretariat and presenters who will attend in person. All other participants are to follow online. The number of delegates in the conference room is restricted to 25. The workshop on 21st November will be streamed via Webex.
Find the agenda here.
Presentations

No
Title
Presenter

Introduction to State Land Service of Latvia and its responsibilities
Vents Priedoliņš

Implementation of sustainability into the SLS

Sandra Notruma

1
Importance of Cadastral Data in Mass Appraisal
Anete Māra Harkeviča, Latvia

2
Belgian Cadastre valuation systems: Cadastral income for properties abroad
Jolien Neckebroeck, Belgium

3
Modernising the French cadastre: dematerialisation of land procedures
Thomas Guégan, France

4
A more secure and efficient real property register & other current developments
Magdalena Andersson and Elisabeth Lundgren Olsson

5
Improving the accuracy of the boundaries in cadaster map using crowdsourcing
Irma Lähetkangas, Finland

6
From Analog to Digital: Modernizing Slovakia´s Cadastral Information System
Kinga Dombiová, Slovakia

7
Developments in cadastral systems
Björn Degel, Germany

8
My Cadastre, e-services for landowners
Priit Kuus, Estonia

9
EuroGeographics updates
Patricia Sokacova

10
Open Cadastral Map
Hara Papadaki, Greece

11
European developments in cadastral systems
Martin Salzmann, The Netherlands

12
Cadastral information systems in dispersed cadastre and invitation to Poland to the next Joint PCC – EuroGeographics conference and plenary
Marcin Grudzien, Poland

Transforming & Exploiting High Value Datasets: Synergies in EU Open Data Projects
2024-11-19 10:00 - 12:00
This exclusive webinar brought together four pioneering EU-funded projects—Open Maps for Europe 2 (OME2), MAREGRAPH, RODEO, and BeOpen. This event showcased their collaborative efforts to revolutionise the landscape of High Value Datasets (HVDs).
You may find the agenda and presentations of the webinar below:
• Welcome – Angela Baker
• Introduction – Antonio Filograna
• Keynote speech “The value of HVD in the future EU economy” – European Commission Project Officers Stefano Bertolo, Johan Bodenkamp, Riku Leppanen and Daniele Pagliuca
• Brief presentation of the 4 Cluster projects – Project Managers Antonio Filograna (BeOpen), Victoria Persson (OME2), Lennert Tyberghein (MareGraph), Timo Kyntaja (RODEO)
• Panel discussion / Q&A through Slido
• Conclusion – Antonio Filograna
Webinar Recording (Opens in YouTube)

Technical Meeting of the EuroGeographics Data Producers 2024
2024-11-06 12:30 - 2024-11-07 13:00
The 2024 Technical Meeting of EuroGeographics Data Producers was hosted by our member the National Geographic Institute of Belgium. The meeting took place in Brussels at the EuroGeographics’ Head Office.
This meeting aimed to brief the Technical Data Producers on the production for 2025 for EBM, ERM and EGM.
The agenda can be found here.
The presentations can be found below:
DAY 1

Welcome – Angela Baker, EuroGeographics
Nazka Mapps User Testimony – Ann Crabé, Nazka Mapss
Wrap up from the last production year and outlooks for the upcoming year – Tim Trautmann, BKG
Presentation of the high-value large scale prototype and capabilities – Noémie Grémeaux, IGN France
Conversion table user testimony – Paolo Pensalfini, IGM Italy

DAY 2

OGC APIs – Gobe Hobona, OGC
Map Generator (opens in YouTube) – Joseph Davies, Eurostat
ERM Validator – Tony Baving, Kadaster Netherlands

INSPIRE KEN Webinar - Publication of big-volume datasets
2024-10-31 10:30 - 12:00
This webinar aimed to share experiences and good practices regarding the management and publication of these extensive datasets, a process that is often organisationally and technically challenging. Managing and distributing large-scale geospatial data involves addressing issues such as data storage, processing, integration, and ensuring compatibility with international standards. By exchanging insights and lessons learned, participants explored solutions to common challenges, improved data standardization, and enhanced accessibility, ensuring high-quality geospatial information is available for various public and private applications.
The agenda of this webinar was as follows:

Introduction, Marcin Grudzień
Big-volume data in Polish geodetic and cartographic resource, Renata Brzozowska, GUGiK Poland
Management and publication of big-volume spatial data in Spain, Carlos Bustos, CNIG Spain
Managing large datasets in the cloud, Richard Joseph, Kadaster Netherlands
Sli.do Q&A

Video Recording (Opens in YouTube)

TDKEN Workshop
2024-10-24 10:00 - 12:30
The last knowledge exchange activity of the Technical Data KEN was an online workshop. The shared experiences and challenges identified in various TDKEN activities were brought together and discussed in the context of the OME2 High Value Large-Scale Prototype.
The workshop included presentations, panel discussions and interactive slido sessions to further the participants’ understanding of generalisation, edge-matching, harmonisation, quality and life-cycle management in the production of seamless datasets.
The agenda and presentations were as follows:

Introduction – TKDEN – Carol Agius – EuroGeographics
EuroGeographics Data meeting users’ needs – Angela Baker – EuroGeographics
OME2 – technology side (tools) – Noemie Grémeaux – IGN France
Comfort break – Poll open
Panel 1 with sli.do polls – Carol Agius, moderator, include Q&A

Joana Simoes, OGC
Marcin Grudzien, Inspire KEN
Karin Mertens, QKEN
Jordi Escriu, JRC

Break 15 mins
Panel 2 with polls – Angela Baker, moderator, include Q&A

Alan Moore, IDOX
Amy Rose, Overture
Nick Land, ESRI
Seb Lessware, 1Spatial

Conclusion and what’s next – (EG data moving forward and the state of play TDKEN report)

Webinar Recording (Opens in YouTube)

OME2 Stakeholders User Requirements Workshop
2024-10-17 10:30 - 12:00
EuroGeographics delivers pan-European open data from official national sources through the Open Maps for Europe interface. We are currently leading the Open Maps for Europe 2 project (OME2), co-funded by the European Union, which builds on the interface developed by the award-winning Open Maps for Europe (OME) Project, completed in December 2022 and co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility.
This workshop was a follow-up to the workshop of September 2023 and aimed to engage with our stakeholders by taking on-board their feedback, informing them of the project aims and outcomes, and ultimately aimed to ensure that the National Mapping and Cadastral datasets available meet their requirements.
The agenda and the questions of the poll for the audience, can be found here.
Here below are the presentations of these workshop:

Welcome and Introduction – Carol Agius, EuroGeographics
OME2 project – Victoria Persson, EuroGeographics
The High Value Large Scale Prototype (HVLSP)– Noemie Gremeaux, IGN France
User Experience with the HVLSP – Julien Gaffuri, Eurostat

General Assembly of the Council of Geodetic Surveyors
2024-10-11 08:00 - 2024-10-12 17:00 | Stavanger Norway, Stavanger, Norway
For information about the CLGE General Assembly, please see here.

Quality KEN Autumn Plenary
2024-10-08 08:00 - 2024-10-09 17:00 | Bratislava Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia
The QKEN Autumn Plenary meeting was held as two full days physical meeting on 8 – 9 October in Bratislava, Slovakia at the premises of the Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Authority of the Slovak Republic.
As it is a physical meeting after number of virtual meetings, we included an in-depth workshop on the visualization of quality control results.
Find the agenda here.
Presentations:

No
Title
Presenter

1
EuroGeographics Head Office Updates
Patricia Sokacova

2
National reports +Results from voting for selection of presentations for next plenary
Tamas Palya and all

3
QKEN membership
Tamas Palya

4
Usage Of Drones By LGIA
Raitis Boļšakovs

5
Improving spot elevation classification
Gonzalo Moreno Vergara

6
Labelling themes
Xavier Halbecq

7
National Geospatial Map of Hungary
Angela Olasz

8
CLRKEN activities and topics
Vents Priedolinš

9
Geodesy Cartography and cadastre Authority of the Slovak Republic – Introduction
Matus Fojtl

10
Quality check of topographic data provided by the GCCA
Tomas Dekan

11
Quality dashboards for Key Registers
Anouk Huisman

12
QKEN-Dashboards
Xavier Halbecq

13
Data Quality Dashboard
Fergus Fahey

14
TDKEN updates and call for inputs
Angela Baker

15
Cooperation with EuroSDR – EduSERV course on Data Quality
Anka Lisec

Policy Coffee Chat
2024-10-03 10:30 - 11:15
The Policy Coffee Chat is the best way to be well informed on what is happening around you, to identify and communicate issues that matter to you.
For this first edition of the Policy Chat, registration was limited to 20 participants on a first-come first-serve basis.

Permanent Correspondents Exchange
2024-09-26 10:00 - 13:00
EuroGeographics Head Office Team together with the Knowledge Exchange Network chairs prepared the annual meeting for our Permanent Correspondents which was held as a virtual event.
The agenda is available here.
Video of the meeting (Opens in YouTube)
The presentations of this webinar were the following:

Introduction and EuroGeographics updates
Sallie Payne-Snell

Briefing and Knowledge Exchange activities: QKEN
Karin Mertens

Briefing and Knowledge Exchange activities: CLR KEN
Vents Priedolins

Briefing and Knowledge Exchange activities: INSPIRE KEN
Marcin Grudzien

Briefing and Knowledge Exchange activities: Pol KEN
Sallie Payne-Snell

Introduction to EuroGeographics strategy topics
Sallie Payne-Snell

EuroGeographics Representation strategy
Carol Agius

Sustainability of the EuroGeographics data strategy
Angela Baker

The role of the Permanent Correspondent
Patricia Sokacova

OME2 Update – Focus on Datasets
Oliwia Marszalek

OME2 update
Victoria Persson

Membership and communication activities (Video – Opens in YouTube)
Rhian French

Events 2024/2025
Matina Fuentes
