Newsline from EDINA
April 2005: Volume 10, Issue 1
The EuroGlobalMap trial service offers a seamless digital map dataset for Europe at a scale of 1:1 million.
Users can view and download for free Europe-wide data provided by EuroGeographics, an organisation representing the majority of Europe's national mapping agencies.
Its small scale means EuroGlobalMap data will be of most use for background mapping, for example as contextual data for use in remotely sensed imagery captured at regional or global scales.
EuroGlobalMap is part of a global initiative run by the International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM), as a response of the global mapping community to Agenda 21, adopted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
A feedback form is provided on the web site, and we look forward to receiving comments from the user community on the usefulness of this data. The data will be available until September 2005 in the first instance.