Digital Map of the Baltic Sea Region

MapBSR

A new tool for co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region

National Land Survey of FinlandNational Land Survey of Finland

MapBSR Aims of the project

to provide basic map data for the Baltic Sea Region (nominal scale 1:1 million)

- seamless, homogeneous data - up-dating secured

to promote co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region

http://www.mapbsr.nls.fi

Background

Meeting of the Baltic Region Ministers of Physical Planning (1992):

A coordinated map data system should be created covering the entire Baltic Sea Region with basic geographic in formation.

Feasibility study

including user questionnaire

MapBSR: The Project Area

Countries as whole:– Finland, Sweden, Denmark,

Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus

The administrative units that intersect the Baltic Sea drainage area in

– The Russian Federation

– Germany – The Czech Republic – the Slovak Republic– Ukraine

Data content Primary Secondary

Administrative Boundaries 1. State boundary 2. County boundary 3. Municipality boundary 4. Boundary of territorial waters

Hydrography 1. Coast line (sea) 1. Drainage areas 2. Lake and subareas

3. River 4. Canal

5. Glacier

Data content (cont.)

Primary

Transport 1. Road 2. Railway 3. Airport 4. Port

Settlement 1. Population centre

Data content (cont.)

Primary Secondary

Elevation 1. Contour line 2. Altitude points 3. Depth contour line

Nature 1. National parks /

restricted areas

Geographical names 1. Names

Data Each National Mapping Agency was responsible

for the production and supply of data over own area

The data was collected and joined into

one seamless database (ArcInfo) by NLS of Finland

WGS84, geographical coordinates

MapBSR

Experiences

Problem: how to obtain the same kind of data

In MapBSR Project:- data from many different sources (NMAs)- data created in various scales and for various

purposes

the feature, quality and data model for the project specifications which everyone able to follow the same level of generalisation

commitment is essential

Current Status – next steps

MapBSR 2000 CD-ROM available next up-date: 2001

”extension of MapBSR” to whole Europe ?

http://www.mapbsr.nls.fi

EuroGlobalMap 1:1 million

Background:

Global Mapping initiative

experiences and ready data provided by MapBSR

idea in Europe that European data should be harmonised, seamless, quality-checked and up-dated

Feasibility Study:The results of the Feasibility Study questionnaire showed that providing data to EuroGlobalMap specifications should be easily feasible for most NMAs.

http://www.eurogeographics.org

Participation in EuroGlobalMap (status April 2001)

Participants

No info

Not members of EuroGeographics

EuroGlobalMap

Main milestones (2001->)• EGM Specification ready• signature of the Project Agreement with

EuroGeographics

• End of 2002• release of EuroGlobalMap version 1 • covering all / most of Europe

http://www.eurogeographics.org