Alpine
Convention
The
Alps are considered as one of the most sensitive regions in
Europe. To ensure the sustainable development of this unique
area, sev en
Alpine States and the EU signed the Alpine
Convention in 1991.
Since
the adoption of the European Spatial Development Perspective
in 1999 regional policy focuses increasingly on a
coherent economic and social development, on the conservation
of natural and cultural diversity and on a balanced competitiveness
of the regions.
The
DIAMONT project, managed by the European
Academy, uses EuroBoundaryMap to advise
the Alpine Convention on the elaboration of an Alpine wide
information system (SOIA) and the selection
of appropriate indicators and relevant data for sustainable
regional development.
Eurostat
 As
the European Commission's statistical office, Eurostat
collects, processes and distributes European economic,
geo-demographic and social information
on all EU and candidate countries.
They provide their
customers with easy and rapid access to comparable statistics.
To achieve this they use EuroBoundaryMap, mapping
their NUTS based statistics to the administrative units in
Europe.
All this information
is made available to the different Commission's departments
for a variety of purposes, such as the management of the structural
funds, worth € 195 Billion in the period 2000 - 2006.
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NAVTEQ
NAVTEQ
is one of the world's leading producers of digital road data.
Its data is found in many in-car navigation systems. 
NAVTEQ digital map
data does not just feature road geometry. It contains dozens
of road attributes for every kilometer, everything from speed
restrictions to lane configurations - in more than
40 countries. And it also offers millions of Points
of Interest, so it enables turn-by-turn directions to restaurants,
fuel stations, shopping and more.
NAVTEQ uses EuroBoundaryMap's
administrative boundaries to reference their road data.
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European
Environment Agency
The
European Environment Agency, the EU body dedicated
to providing independent information on the environment and
the main information source for environm ental
policies, are using EuroBoundaryMap to relate
their environmental information and indicators to the administrative
areas in Europe.
One
example is the use of EuroBoundaryMap to
classify environmental regions within their CORINE
landcover dataset, providing support for the protection of
European ecosystems, stopping the loss of
biological diversity, tracking the impacts of climate change,
assessing developments in agriculture and implementing the
European Union's Water Framework Directive among others.
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