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Some European Initiatives for GIS Database Creation and Mapping. Marek Baranowski UNEP/GRID-Warsaw. GRID-Warsaw Overview. over 8 years of activity (est. 17.09. 1991) 12 employees: geographers (8) agriculture engineer (1) administration & accounting (3) homepage: www.gridw .pl.
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Some European Initiatives for GIS Database Creation and Mapping Marek Baranowski UNEP/GRID-Warsaw
GRID-Warsaw Overview • over 8 years of activity (est. 17.09. 1991) • 12 employees: • geographers (8) • agriculture engineer (1) • administration & accounting (3) • homepage: www.gridw.pl
Mapping Related Projects • State of environment Poland • National Atlas of Poland • State of environment Europe (Dobris+3) • Maps for SoER EU’98 • School Electronic Atlas of Poland • Electronic Atlas of Environment, Poland • Biodiversity Report of Europe
GIS Database Related Projects • CORINE Land Cover • MapBSR • Creation of national spatial databases • general (1 : 500 000) • topographic (1 : 100 000) • thematic
Selected European Databases • CORINE Land Cover DB • mantained by ETC Land Cover • GISCO DB (Eurostat) • PELCOM • MapBSR • 14 countries of Baltic Sea Drainage Area (1997 ) • 1:1M • Hydrography, Administration, Transportation, Settlements, Protected Areas, Contour Lines, Geographic Names, Drainage
Topographic data Administrative boundaries (AD) Infrastructure (IN) Hydrography (HY) Altimetry (AL) Support (SU) Thematic data Community Support Frameworks (CS) Infra regional statistics (IR) Industrial themes (ID) Land Resources (LR) Nature resources (NR) Environment (EN) World Database (WD) GISCO Reference Database