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EEA reference grid

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Created 01 Jun 2011 Published 15 Jun 2011 Last modified 24 Aug 2017

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This page was archived on 24 Aug 2017 with reason: A new version has been published (There is a new published version.)

The grid is based on the recommendation at the 1st European Workshop on Reference Grids in 2003 and later INSPIRE geographical grid systems. For Europe and each country three vector polygon grid shape files, 1, 10 and 100 km, are available. For full Europe the 1 km vector grid is excluded for size reasons. The grids cover at least country borders and, where applicable, marine Exclusive Economic Zones v2.0, www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound. Note that the extent of the grid into the marine area does not reflect the extent of the territorial waters.

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Zipped shape files

Grid data in 100 km, 10 km and 1km countrywise zip files

Albania.zip (ZIP archive)
3.10 MB Download file
Austria.zip (ZIP archive)
7.17 MB Download file
Belgium.zip (ZIP archive)
3.32 MB Download file
Bosnia_Herzegovina.zip (ZIP archive)
3.32 MB Download file
Bulgaria.zip (ZIP archive)
8.21 MB Download file
Croatia.zip (ZIP archive)
8.63 MB Download file
Cyprus.zip (ZIP archive)
5.12 MB Download file
Czech_Republic.zip (ZIP archive)
4.91 MB Download file
Denmark.zip (ZIP archive)
11.10 MB Download file
Estonia.zip (ZIP archive)
4.13 MB Download file
Europe.zip (ZIP archive)
11.87 MB Download file
Finland.zip (ZIP archive)
23.00 MB Download file
France.zip (ZIP archive)
39.04 MB Download file
FYR_of_Macedonia.zip (ZIP archive)
2.49 MB Download file
Germany.zip (ZIP archive)
18.05 MB Download file
Gibraltar.zip (ZIP archive)
219.81 KB Download file
Great_Britain.zip (ZIP archive)
58.70 MB Download file
Greece.zip (ZIP archive)
27.07 MB Download file
Hungary.zip (ZIP archive)
4.94 MB Download file
Iceland.zip (ZIP archive)
28.48 MB Download file
Ireland.zip (ZIP archive)
22.04 MB Download file
Italy.zip (ZIP archive)
34.50 MB Download file
Kosovo.zip (ZIP archive)
1.21 MB Download file
Latvia.zip (ZIP archive)
5.77 MB Download file
Liechtenstein.zip (ZIP archive)
218.44 KB Download file
Lithuania.zip (ZIP archive)
4.94 MB Download file
Luxembourg.zip (ZIP archive)
418.90 KB Download file
Malta.zip (ZIP archive)
4.10 MB Download file
Montenegro.zip (ZIP archive)
2.49 MB Download file
Netherlands.zip (ZIP archive)
5.78 MB Download file
Poland.zip (ZIP archive)
14.80 MB Download file
Portugal.zip (ZIP archive)
67.16 MB Download file
Romaina.zip (ZIP archive)
18.49 MB Download file
Serbia.zip (ZIP archive)
4.93 MB Download file
Slovakia.zip (ZIP archive)
3.10 MB Download file
Slovenia.zip (ZIP archive)
2.49 MB Download file
Spain.zip (ZIP archive)
70.84 MB Download file
Sweden.zip (ZIP archive)
24.38 MB Download file
Switzerland.zip (ZIP archive)
2.48 MB Download file
Turkey.zip (ZIP archive)
44.39 MB Download file
Allgrids.zip
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Norway.zip
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Additional information

About the EEA reference grid

A short specification of the EEA reference grid

eea_reference_grid_v1.pdf (PDF document)
252.54 KB Download file

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Rights:

EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Methodology:

The reference grids are based on ETRS89 Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection with parameters: latitude of origin 52° N, longitude of origin 10° E, false northing 3 210 000.0 m, false easting 4 321 000.0 m. The grid origin is at 0 m N, 0 m E.

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