Archived Projects

In this section you can access information about completed projects. The following projects are available:

• ESDIN (2008-2011) European Spatial Data Infrastructure with a Best Practice Network,  project work on implementation of INSPIRE Annex I themes and creating specifications based on INSPIRE so that cross-border and Pan-European interoperability can be achieved.

• ABDS: The Administrative Boundary Data Services project for the Central and Eastern European Countries, concerned with the preparation and partial implementation of an on-line delivery service for administrative boundary data.
• ESMI: The ESMI (European Spatial Metadata Infrastructure) project, aiming to create a single access gate to linked internet services that describes geographic information, thereby giving users access to a wealth of information about geographic data.

• EuroSpec: The overarching structure for many of our activities has now been replaced by our Medium Term Business Plan. Many of the principles of EuroSpec have been carried forward through ESDIN.

• ETeMII:  An EC funded project aimed at bringing together many of the key stakeholders involved in European GI in order to both explore and promote the main issues that lie behind the creation of a European Geographic Information Infrastructure.

• Laclef: LaClef aimed at finding ways of unlocking some of the valuable Geographic Information data held in the European public sector.

• PETIT: Pathfinder towards the European Topographic Information Template was a project to determine the feasibility of creating a pan-European topographic dataset using the VMap Level 1 specifications defined by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.

• EuroRoadS was a project intended to lay the ground for the creation of a standardised, seamless, updated and quality assured digital road data infrastructure within Europe.