Geographic Information System of the European Commission (GISCO) - full database, Jun. 2020

GISCO (Geographic Information System of the COmmission) is responsible for meeting the European Commission's geographical information needs at three levels: the European Union, its member countries, and its regions.



In addition to creating statistical and other thematic maps, GISCO manages a database of geographical information, and provides related services to the Commission. Its database contains core geographical data covering the whole of Europe, such as administrative boundaries, and thematic geospatial information, such as population grid data. Some data are available for download by the general public and may be used for non-commercial purposes. For further details and information about any forthcoming new or updated datasets, see http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata.



This metadata refers to the whole content of GISCO reference database extracted in June 2020, which contains both public datasets (also available for the general public through http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata) and datasets to be used only internally by the EEA (typically, but not only, GISCO datasets at 1:100k). The document GISCO-ConditionsOfUse.pdf provided with the dataset gives information on the copyrighted data sources, the mandatory acknowledgement clauses and re-dissemination rights. The license conditions for EuroGeographic datasets in GISCO are provided in a standalone document "LicenseConditions_EuroGeographics.pdf".



The database is provided in GPKG files, with datasets at scales from 1:60M to 1:100K, with reference years spanning until 2021 (e.g. NUTS 2021). Attribute files are provided in CSV. The database manual, a file with the content of the database, a glossary, and a document with the naming conventions are also provided with the database.



The main updates with respect to the previous version of the full database in the SDI (from Jul. 2018) are the addition of the following datasets:

- Administrative boundaries at country level, 2020 (CNTR_2020)

- Administrative boundaries at commune level, 2016 (COMM_2016)

- Coastline boundaries, 2016 (COAS_2016)

- Exclusive Economic Zones, 2016 (EEZ_2016)

- Farm Accountancy Data Network based on NUTS 2016, 2018 (FADN_2018)

- Local Administrative Units, 2018 (LAU_2018)

- Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, 2021 (NUTS_2021)

- Political regions (NB.: defined by the Committee of the Regions), 2018 (POLREG_2018)

- Pan-European Settlements, 2016 (STLL_2016) and 2018 (STLL_2018)

- Transport Networks (NB.: railway lines, railway stations, roads, road junctions, levelcrossings, ferry routs and custom points), 2019 (TRAN_2019)

- Urban Audit Areas, 2018 (URAU_2018) and 2020 (URAU_2020)



NOTE: This metadata file is only for internal EEA purposes and in no case replaces the official metadata provided by Eurostat. For specific GISCO datasets included in this version there are individual EEA metadata files in the SDI: NUTS_2021 and CNTR_2020. For other GISCO datasets in the SDI, it is recommended to use the version included in this dataset. The original metadata files from Eurostat for the different GISCO datasets are available via ECAS login through the Eurostat metadata portal on https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/inspire-sdi/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home. For the public products metadata can also be downloaded from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata. For more information about the full database or any of its datasets, please contact the SDI Team ( sdi@eea.europa.eu).

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Date (Creation)
2020-06-30
Citation identifier
eurostat_v_4258_x_x_gisco_i_2020_series
Status
Superseded

Point of contact

No information provided.

Point of contact

No information provided.

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land cover

  • Population distribution — demography

  • Elevation

  • Transport networks

  • Administrative units
Keywords
    Keywords

      GEMET

      • administrative boundary

      • census survey

      Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

      • Europe

      • World
      Spatial scope
      Access constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints
      public access limited according to Article 13(1)(e) of the INSPIRE Directive
      Use constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints

      Eurostat's general copyright notice and licence policy is applicable and can be consulted on http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about/policies/copyright. Please also be aware of the European Commission's general conditions ( https://ec.europa.eu/info/legal-notice_en)



      The document GISCO-ConditionsOfUse.pdf provided with the dataset gives information on the copyrighted data sources, the mandatory acknowledgement clauses and re-dissemination rights (for both public and restricted datasets). The license conditions for EuroGeographic datasets in GISCO are provided in a standalone document "LicenseConditions_EuroGeographics.pdf".



      Specific provisions applicable to some of the datasets available for public download can be found on http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data. The download and usage of these data is subject to their acceptance.

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      Denominator
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      Denominator
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      Denominator
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      Denominator
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      Language of dataset
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Topic category
      • Boundaries
      • Elevation
      • Environment
      • Inland waters
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      Begin date
      2016-01-01
      End date
      2016-12-31
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:4258
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:3035
      Distribution format
      • ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql) ( 1.0)

      • Geopackage ( 1.0)

      OnLine resource

      No information provided.
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset

      Conformance result

      Title
      Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
      Date (Publication)
      2010-12-08
      Explanation

      See the referenced specification
      Statement

      Information on the lineage of the different datasets can be found in their respective metadata files, which for the public products can be downloaded from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata. The metadata can also be extracted from Eurostat metadata portal on: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/inspire-sdi/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home (ECAS login needed). For more information please contact SDI Team at sdi@eea.europa.eu.

      Metadata

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      English
      Character set
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      Date stamp
      2023-09-06T09:42:31.719Z
      Metadata standard name

      ISO 19115/19139
      Metadata standard version

      1.0
      Metadata author
      Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

      European Environment Agency

      sdi@eea.europa.eu

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      Access to the catalogue

      Overviews

      overview

      Spatial extent

      thumbnail

      Keywords

      GEMET

      administrative boundary census survey
      GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

      Administrative units Elevation Land cover Population distribution — demography Transport networks
      Spatial scope

      European


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