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
Identifier
eurostat_v_4258_x_x_gisco_i_2020_series
Point of contact
  European Commission, Eurostat (ESTAT), GISCO
Custodian
  European Commission, Eurostat (ESTAT), GISCO
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Land cover
  • Population distribution — demography
  • Elevation
  • Administrative units
  • Transport networks
EEA keyword list
  • NUTS
  • boundaries
  • urban audit
  • countries
  • census centroids
  • communes
  • geostat
  • urban clusters
  • Degree of Urbanisation
  • airports
  • ports
  • LUCAS
  • DEM
  • coastline
  • exclusive economic zones
  • settlements
  • political regions
  • FADN
  • LAU
  • DEGURBA
EEA categories ( Theme )
  • geospatial data
GEMET ( Theme )
  • administrative boundary
  • statistical data
  • census survey
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
  • Europe
  • World
Spatial scope ( Theme )
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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Metadata language
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Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Elevation
  • Environment
  • Inland waters
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Begin date
2016-01-01
End date
2016-12-31
CRS identifier
EPSG:4258
CRS identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • CSV ( 1.0 )

  • Geopackage ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
Direct download (Eionet authentication) ( WWW:URL )
OnLine resource
GISCO2020_gpkg ( EEA:FOLDERPATH )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

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.

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Hierarchy level
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Date stamp
2020-07-10T17:25:22
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
 
 

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Keywords

EEA categories
geospatial data
GEMET
administrative boundary census survey statistical data
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Administrative units Elevation Land cover Population distribution — demography Transport networks
Spatial scope
European

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