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 is ESDIN

Our projects are carried out within the EuroSpec Programme, which we are currently reviewing.

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. The following projects fall in this category:

• ESDIN  

Development projects are key building blocks of the EuroSpec Programme.

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

ESDIN is European Spatial Data Infrastructure with a Best Practice Network — a project supported by eContent+ programme. It is working to implement INSPIRE Annex I data specifications in NMCAs at large and small scales and to provide working INSPIRE services from the participating partners.

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.