Colin Bray, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Survey Officer, Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) has been re-elected President of EuroGeographics. Mr Bray was re-elected by the Heads of Europe’s National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registry Authorities at their membership association’s 2019 General Assembly. Members also voted Sanja Zekušić from the State Geodetic Administration, Croatia and re-elected
Data from Ukraine is the latest addition to pan-European multi-themed topographic mapping created using harmonised geospatial information from official sources. As a result, EuroRegionalMap (ERM 2019), produced by EuroGeographics, the membership association for European National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities, now covers 51 European countries and territories (according to ISO country code). The 1:250
Trusted authoritative sources of spatial information are fundamental requirements of a modern state, says EuroGeographics, the membership Association for European National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities (NMCAs). The Ninth Session of the United Nations global geospatial information management (UN-GGIM) committee of experts held in New York recently heard how official data from its members
Malta is hosting an International workshop on spatial data quality which will see producers, users, academia and software suppliers gather in Valletta on 28 and 29 January 2020. Abstracts and papers are now invited for the two-day event organised by EuroGeographics and EuroSDR in conjunction with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) Technical
Official digital mapping plays an important role in helping to address the key global and regional issues that affect society and the planet, such as poverty, climate change, sustainable development, a digital economy, migration, security and health. National and international geospatial experts gather during the first week of August at the United Nations Headquarters in
EuroGeographics today (8 July 2019) announced the addition of NUTS 3 official boundary information in its European geospatial open data from official national sources. As well as enabling socio-economic analysis of more than 1,300 administrative regions across Europe, the latest release of 1.1 million EuroGlobalMapopen data (EGM 2019) is also available as both a web
European Commission funding for the Open ELS Project concluded on 30 April 2019 after two years of work. Without the engagement of all our project partners, and the skills and experiences of all our colleagues involved in the project activities, we would not have been able to achieve the project outcomes planned in our proposal.
Open data services developed using official national sources of geospatial information have been demonstrated for the first time at Geospatial World Forum (2 April 2019). Conference delegates received an exclusive preview of the first test services from the Open European Location Services (ELS) Project which is being coordinated by EuroGeographics, the membership association for Europe’s
EuroGeographics is supporting Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam from 2-4 April 2019. As a strategic partner of this important event, we will be facilitating a panel comprising our President and five Management Board Members during the conference on 4 April 2019, from 0900 to 1030. The panel will discuss how European NMCAs are leading the way
EuroGeographics is delighted to be a media partner for DGI Europe 2019, the leading global geospatial intelligence conference. Mick Cory, EuroGeographics Secretary General and Executive Director will moderate a panel on how National Mapping Agencies should plan to thrive in the future automated environment. He will be joined by Ingrid Vanden Berghe, Head of the
