GIS - Geospatial data - Maps
This web page contains links to guidelines and templates related to handling spatial data in EEA and Eionet.
Criteria requested by the European Environment Agency for the integration of data into the Environmental data centres and their hosting infrastructure
- Use of open standards and formats, which implies that data must allow processing with freely available tools
- Dataset structure and fields should be well-documented
- Methodology for production of the data should be well-documented
- Inspire compliant metadata for spatial data: Inspire compliant metadata guidelines
- Guidance for countries on geospatial data reporting for national experts
Guidelines for authors providing maps and data
- Delivery guideline for graph data- and geospatial data for map- and graph production to EEA indicators and reports: Guide for authors providing maps and graphs
- EEA Layout guide for map production – EEA GIS guide: Version 4.0. Guideline of how to use the EEA standard map templates.
- EEA GIS mapdata and templates: Downloadable EEA map templates and smallscale vectordata.
- Example of EEA map template: EEA map template for production of small scale maps.
- Colours and colour scales to be used by the EEA: The EEA Corporate identity manual provides a graphical style guide for EEA reports and on-line services. Part 7 details the use of colours on maps. The full document can be accessed here.
Grids
EEA recommends the use of multipurpose ETRS89 Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area 52N 10E grid. This grid is described in detail in the 'EEA Data requirement for map production – EEA GIS guide'-FAQ chapter. Grid in shape file-format is available here: EEA Reference Grid (1 km, 10 km and 100 km grid cells).
The EEA Reference grid is based on the recommendation at the 1st European Workshop on Reference Grids in 2003 and later INSPIRE geographical grid systems European Reference Grids Workshop.
Links to related spatial data infrastructures
The EEA Dataservice Sharing European environmental datasets, maps, charts and applications
Discomap The EEA webmap service
INSPIRE Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe
