EuroGeographics launches open tender for user interface

  EuroGeographics, the not-for-profit membership association for European National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities (NMCAs), has issued an open tender for the development and enhancement of a user interface to deliver open maps for Europe. The Open Maps for Europe project is coordinated by EuroGeographics in partnership with the National Geographic Institute (NGI) Belgium. It runs

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  Read the latest issue of our occasional newsletter highlighting some of the ways in which our members data contribute to important international policy initiatives, including the European Strategy for Data, the UN Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF) and the UN-GGIM Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA).

BKG obtains Other National Authority (ONA) status from Eurostat

Germany’s Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) is the first National Mapping and Cadastral Authority (NMCA) to gain Other National Authority (ONA) status from Eurostat. As a result, BKG has committed to meeting a number of requirements, including observing the code of practice for European statistics, and will now have the opportunity to apply

UN-GGIM framework for effective land administration welcomed by EuroGeographics

EuroGeographics, which represents Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities (NMCAs), has welcomed a new framework for effective land administration that recognises the importance of providing secure land and property rights to people across the world. The adoption of the Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA) at the tenth session of the United Nations

EuroGeographics pledges support for UN-GGIM focus on authoritative geospatial data

EuroGeographics has welcomed the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management’s (UN-GGIM) intention to focus on issues concerning authority, custodianship and legal issues for data for the public good. The Association, which represents Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities, has pledged to support the UN-GGIM Working Group on Legal and

EuroGeographics highlights role of high value, authoritative, geospatial information in European Strategy for Data 

High value, authoritative, geospatial data from official national sources has a significant role to play in the European Strategy for Data.    EuroGeographics, the not-for-profit membership association for Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registry Authorities, has highlighted that such data is ubiquitous across all the dataspaces and one of the the basic building blocks for

Online directory points way to national map, land registration & cadastral data from official sources

National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registry Authorities (NMCAs) have launched an online directory to help users find official geospatial, land registration and cadastral information and maps from Europe. Available via the website of EuroGeographics, the not-for-profit membership association for European NMCAs, users select their country of interest via the online map, and then click on

Copernicus In Situ Newsletter Interview

EuroGeographics Secretary General and Executive Director, Mick Cory is interviewed in the latest Copernicus In Situ Newsletter. He shares his thoughts on the changing environment for EuroGeographics, and its relationship with Copernicus. Read the interview here: https://insitu.copernicus.eu/news/interview-mick-cory-eurogeographics  

Unique collaboration releases updated official boundary and geospatial data for Europe

National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration authorities across Europe have provided official data for the latest seamless administrative boundary and topographic datasets available from their membership association, EuroGeographics. EuroBoundaryMap (EBM 2020) and EuroRegionalMap (ERM 2020) are created by the not-for-profit organisation using a unique data integration process which harmonises national data to standard specifications. Angela

Annual Review 2019 published online

EuroGeographics 2019 Annual Review is now available online. As well as an update on our activities as the Association of European National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities,, 32 members have also submitted use cases covering topics such as open data, digital and business transformation, geoportal development, positioning, quality and interoperability. Each case study is also