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GMES Urban Atlas

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The Urban Atlas is providing pan-European comparable land use and land cover data for Large Urban Zones with more than 100.000 inhabitants as defined by the Urban Audit. The GIS data can be downloaded together with a map for each urban area covered and a report with the metadata.

GIS data

Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom

Methodology

Mapping Guide for a European Urban Atlas

This document contains the product description, mapping guidance and class description for the product "Urban Atlas".

Additional information

Colortables
Coordinate reference system (ESRI friendly)

Additional information

There is one zip archive per area, e.g. for Vienna: at001l_wien, which includes

    • The actual vector data in ESRI shapefile format (Reprojected to LAEA/ETRS89)
    • A PDF document with a high-resolution map of the area (Reprojected to LAEA/ETRS89)
    • A MS Word document with metadata and results of quality checks, referring to the original, non-reprojected data

Link to the related map viewer: http://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/UrbanAtlas.

The original vector data in ESRI file geodatabase (.gdb) format, as described in the metadata documents accompanying each Larger Urban Zone dataset, are available on request by sending a mail at the address below:

Produced maps and graphs

Related websites

Publish date:
28 May 2010
Temporal coverage:
2005-2007
Last upload:
28 May 2010
Geographical coverage:

EU25, EU27, EU12, EU15

 
Tags:
urban | vector data | geospatial data
Scale of the data set:
1:10000
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 (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Directorate-General Enterprise and Industry.
Methodology:

Compiled from thousands of pictures from European satellites, Urban Atlas provides sufficient coverage for detailed and cost-effective mapping of larger urban zones, yielding accurate land cover and usage data. Urban Atlas' mission is to provide high-resolution hotspot mapping of changes in urban spaces and indicators for users such as city governments, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and European Commission departments. More than 300 major cities in the EU will be covered by early 2011. More details can be found in the Mapping Guide (see section: Methodology)

Coordinate reference system:
EPSG:3035
Source:

Directorate-General Entreprise and Industry (date of delivery: 15 Mar 2010 and 21May 2010).

Owners:
Directorate-General Enterprise and Industry
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