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Created 01 Jun 2011 Published 15 Jun 2011 Last modified 24 Aug 2017
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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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Grid data in 100 km, 10 km and 1km countrywise zip files

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About the EEA reference grid

A short specification of the EEA reference grid

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information.png 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).
information.png 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.

 

information.png Coordinate reference system:
EPSG:3035
information.png Data sources

For the determination of the marine area Exclusive Economic Zones were used: EEZ, v2.0, www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound

information.png Owners:
European Environment Agency (EEA)
information.png Processors:
European Environment Agency (EEA)
 

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