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Open Maps for Europe (Discovery Service)

This is the discovery service of the pan-European spatial datasets provided by the European mapping and cadastral agencies: EuroGlobalMap, EuroRegionalMap, EuroDEM, Open Cadastral Map, Pan-European Imagery, Open Gazetteer. The datasets are openly available accessible on the platform Open Maps for Europe (OME) http://www.mapsforeurope.org/.

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Date (Creation)
2022-10-05
Date (Revision)
2022-10-05
Citation identifier
EU-EG. / 48234430-44ba-11ed-a201-7478273ff935
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

EuroGeographics

Sallie Payne Snell

sallie.payne@eurogeographics.org

Custodian
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Annex D4 of the European Commission Regulation 1205/2008
  • infoFeatureAccessService
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01
  • Europe
  • map
Spatial scope
  • European
Keywords
  • Open Data

  • mapsforeurope

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files

•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.

•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden

•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access
Use limitation

•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files

•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.

•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden

•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.

Service Type
discovery
Description

Europe

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Coupling Type
Tight
Contains Operations
Operation Name Distributed Computing Platforms Connect Point

GetCapabilities

Web services https://www.mapsforeurope.org/maps/csw?service=CSW&version=2.0.2&request=GetCapabilities

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:CSW

https://www.mapsforeurope.org/maps/csw?service=CSW&version=2.0.2&request=GetCapabilities
Hierarchy level
Service
Other

service

Domain consistency

Name of measure

INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Title
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Network Services
Date (Publication)
2009-08-19
Explanation

The service described does not meet the technical requirements as defined by the Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009.

Pass
No

Metadata

File identifier
48234430-44ba-11ed-a201-7478273ff935 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Service
Hierarchy level name

Discovery Service

Date stamp
2026-05-12T15:07:34
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

National Geographic Institute

Floor Van Damme

metadata@ngi.be

Point of contact
Other language
Language Character encoding
French
Dutch; Flemish
German
English UTF8
 
 

Overviews

overview

Keywords

Open Data mapsforeurope
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

Europe map
Spatial scope

European


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