Coordinate Reference Systems in Europe (CRS-EU)
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CRS-EU
Title (Project name): Coordinate reference systems in Europe (CRS-EU)
Owner:
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG), Germany / EuroGeographics (European Association of National Mapping, Cadastre and Land Registry Authorities) / Euref.
Geographical scope: European (National contributions).
Abstract:
Information and Service System for European Coordinate Reference Systems established to support the users of spatial information in Europe.
The project developed a website containing information of national European coordinate reference systems and pan-European coordinate reference systems for position and height, mainly:
- Description of national Coordinate Reference Systems.
- Description of pan-European Coordinate Reference Systems (ETRS89 / EVRF2000 / EVRF2007).
- Description of the official transformation parameters from national Coordinate Reference Systems to pan-European Coordinate Reference Systems including: quality of the transformation, verification of data of transformation, a service module enabling online conversion and transformation of single points for test and verification purposes.
- Links to the National Mapping Agencies of the European Countries.
Purpose:
- Provide a single entry point to look up information about the existing CRS in Europe, either national or pan-European, as well as to the official transformation between them established by the Member States.
- Cover the existing gap of an official CRS registry in Europe.
Benefits:
- Facilitate the access for users and implementers to the official procedures established by the Member States to transform data from national CRS to pan-European CRS, and viceversa.
- Possibility to compare different methodologies set up across Europe to transform data to pan-European CRS, including the loss of quality in the transformation process.
Intended audience: Mapping agencies at all levels of administration / implementers.
Status: Closed as project, but information system is maintained.
Themes: Coordinate reference systems.
Resource language: English
Metadata date: 2014.
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