EuroBoundaryMap

EuroBoundaryMap is a seamless geo-database at the scale 1:100 000 covering 40 countries. It contains geometry, names and codes of administrative and statistical units continuously updated by our members, the national mapping and cadastral agencies (NMCAs) of Europe. It links to the updated statistical LAU-and NUTS-codes for all local administrative units of the 27 member states of the European Union.

Basic information

Current version	5.0
Release date	January 2011
Nominal scale	1:100 000
Coordinate system	Geographical in degrees (longitude, latitude) with decimal fraction and based on the WGS84 (ETRS89) spatial reference system
Database structure	The geometry of administrative units and boundaries is stored in data layers. Administrative units on upper hierarchical level and statistical regions are provided as additional layers. Attributive informative is stored in linked tables.
Database specification	Full product specification
Delivery formats available	ESRI Personal Geodatabase and File Geodatabase ArcGis 9.3 ESRI shapefile Mapinfo mif/mid
Data structure and content	EuroBoundaryMap v5.0 offers: Geometry of all European administrative and statistical units from the most detailed local level to country level Names (Unicode-UTF8 and ASCII) and unique hierarchical structured codes (UIDs) of all administrative units on each national administrative level Unified coding system for all the administrative levels including designations of different national levels and the relations between them Links to statistical LAU- and NUTS codes (as published for 2010) for all local administrative units of EU27 Distinction between land and water areas of administrative units (for example coastal water or lakes)
Change history	Changes from EuroBoundaryMap v4.0 to v5.0 Serbia has been integrated into EBM for the first time. Administrative units on upper levels are restructured. The EBM data specification has been improved concerning coastal waters which can be integrated in the national contributions as territorial sea. Updated metadata for the EBM v5.0 product according to INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules v1.2 and ISO 19115 as well as lineage-files and metadata for all national contributions based on ISO 19115. Additional documents desribing the changes between v4.0 and v5.0 in more detail, the results of quality checks concerning EBM v5.0 and the matching results between SHN codes (geometry) and LAU2-codes provided by NSIs. EuroBoundaryMap v5.0 is produced by using ArcGIS v9.3 and the standard data format is ESRI File Geodatabase.
Quality and standards	The Data Product Specification has been improved according to ISO 19131. The quality of EuroBoundaryMap v5.0 product has been checked according to ISO 19113 and the results are documented. The metadata of EuroBoundaryMap v5.0 and all national contributions is based on the ISO 19115 standard and the INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules v1.2.

Coverage

Dataset includes:

Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark including the Faroe Islands and Greenland
Estonia
Finland
France including French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion and Monaco
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy including San Marino and Vatican City
Kosovo
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Netherlands
Northern Ireland
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain including Andorra and Gibraltar
Sweden
Switzerland including Liechtenstein
Ukraine

Sample data

These samples are taken from the border area between Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg. To view them, right click on the link and choose Save target as.

The sample data is for internal evaluation purposes only. All are © EuroGeographics.

Geodatabase (incl. visualisation)	zip, 6 MB
Shapefiles	zip, 6 MB
Read me	pdf, 1 MB

Applications

EuroBoundaryMap v5.0 enables you to geo-reference statistical data, and can also be used as a background to geo-referenced datasets.

View some use cases.

The most typical applications of the data are:

geo-market analysis;
socio-economic analysis;
demographic analysis;
asset management; and
geo-referencing cross-border data.

Product literature

Full product specification (also serves as user guide)

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