Projects

In our projects we work with members, academia and commercial companies to develop specifications, products and services to form the 'building blocks of interoperability'. Our most recent project was ESDIN where we developed the basis for creating interoperability for cross-border and Pan-European reference data.

In our projects we will be working to build the European Location Framework (E.L.F.), which is 

• set of specifications for geospatial reference data 
• interoperability services needed to provide data services for cross-border and pan-European use. These services include quality evaluation, generalization, edge-matching, transformation, security and accessing services (view, download)

For implementation the European Location Framework we have created E.L.F task force which is open to interested parties as well.

We categorise our projects into two main types:

Development Projects, aiming at a proof of concept or the development of a process or a service. They may be co-funded e.g. by the European Commission) or self-funded.  ESDIN , which is now completed is an example of this type. 

Development projects are key building blocks of the European Loaction Framework.

Implementation and Maintenance Projects, aim to deliver a product or service and subsequently to improve them. They are generally self-funded. Within this category we have:

• EuroRegionalMap
• EuroGlobalMap
• EuroBoundaryMap
• State Boundaries of Europe (SBE) (previously EuroBoundaries)
• EuroGeoNames

EuroGeoNames (EGN) provides a distributed multi-lingual geographical names data network for Europe.

It will ultimately be a multi-lingual Internet service linking official geographical names sources across Europe. Access will be provided equally for all official European languages including the officially recognized minority languages.

The State Boundaries of Europe vision and long term goal is to compile a multipurpose State Boundaries of Europe Dataset, as the “definitive” description of the national boundaries of European countries. A short term goal for the project is to build a state boundaries dataset that creates a consistent approach for handling state boundaries at master data level (large scale) and also at regional and global levels.