EEA geospatial data catalogue
Geographic Information System of the European Commission (GISCO) - full database, Jul. 2018
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 July 2018, which contains both public datasets and datasets to be used only internally by the EEA. 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 GDB and in SQLITE, with datasets at scales from 1:60M to 1:100K, with reference years spanning until 2016. The database manual, a file with the content of the database, and a document with the naming conventions are also provided with the database. For particular datasets extracted from this database (NUTS 2016 and COUNTRIES 2016) please refer to the associated resources in the EEA SDI catalogue.
NOTE: This metadata file is only for internal EEA purposes and in no case replaces the official metadata provided by Eurostat.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-07-10
- Citation identifier
- eurostat_v_x_x_x_gisco_i_2016_series
- Status
- Superseded
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 100000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 1000000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 3000000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 10000000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 20000000
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 60000000
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Elevation
- Environment
- Inland waters
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2016-01-01 2016-12-31
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land cover
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Population distribution — demography
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Elevation
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Administrative units
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Transport networks
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- GEMET
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administrative boundary
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urbanisation
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Europe
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World
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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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)
Moreover, there are specific provisions applicable to some of the datasets available for downloading. The download and usage of these data is subject to their acceptance. Please see the respective section for more details on http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data.
The European Commission, its Executive Agencies and European Environment Agency may use the datasets under the following usage restrictions: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/GISCO/License+conditions+for+EuroGeographics+Administrative+and+Topographic+spatial+datasets. Contractors of the European Commission, its Executive Agencies and EEA can access the data after signing an agreement form. The agreement form can be requested by the responsible service from European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO ESTAT-GISCO@ec.europa.eu. Once the form has been signed, access will be provided by European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO .
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".
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- intellectualPropertyRights
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Revision Of
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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GDB
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Spatialite
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- OnLine resource
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Direct download (Eionet authentication)
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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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
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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Information on the lineage of the different datasets can be found in their respective metadata files.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:4258
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 799f353c-d074-47c3-9783-7e246c036a1b
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/799f353c-d074-47c3-9783-7e246c036a1b
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-07-11T12:11:10Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:58:45.594301Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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