EuroGlobalMap User Guide
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1. Regu User Guide Version 2 0 be liable to the customer or any other party for any loss damage inconvenience or expense resulting from the use of or reliance upon the data Delivery of EGM You are advised to make a back up copy of the data delivered Written notification of any deficiency in the EGM data or damage to the goods must be given to EuroGeographics or the distributor from which you bought the data Data copyright EGM data are copyright of EuroGeographics and the contributing national mapping agencies As standard EGM data may be used for internal business use only It may not be used for Internet applications unless this has been explicitly agreed within a schedule addition to the licence Your licence agreement specifies the number of concurrent users which may use the data Additionally any printed output which is based on EGM data must bear an appropriate copyright acknowledgement Copyright statements are named in Annex B User Guide copyright This User Guide is copyright of EuroGeographics No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical for any purpose without the express written permission of EuroGeographics Trade marks Trade marks in this Guide are the property of their respective owners ARC INFO and ArcGIS are registered trade marks of Environmental Systems Research Insti tute Inc INFO is a trade mark of Henco Software Inc E2. RE 7 HR Croatian SCR 2 HU Hungarian HUN 2 IE English ENG 1 IT Italian ITA 1 LI German GER 1 LI French FRE 1 LI Italian ITA 1 LI Raeto Romance ROH 1 LT Lithuanian LIT 2 LU French FRE 1 LV Latvian LAV 13 MD Moldavian MOL 2 NI English ENG 1 NL Dutch DUT 1 NL Frisian FRY 1 NO Norwegian NOR 1 PL Polish POL 2 PT Portuguese POR 1 SE Swedish SWE 1 SI Slovenian SLV 2 SK Slovak SLO 2 TR TURKISH TUR 9 AD Spanish SPA 1 AD Basque BAQ 1 AD Catalan CAT 1 AD Gallegan GLG 1 If the name of the feature has a real value it has been transliterated to ASCII characters note not transcripted and saved to items NAMA1 and NAMA2 The purpose of the transliteration is to give all the users at least some uniform vision about the names of the features where ever in Europe they operate also in those cases when not all the fonts and character sets are installed to the us ers PC Transliteration rules are included to the national metadata files line age Please note that if the name of the feature contains diacritical alphabets like 6 e the transliterated name is always less or more distortion of the original geographical name Be very careful when using the transliterated names they do not represent the original ones and can look sometimes very strange e g with city Athens Greek AOHNA the EuroGlobalMap Page 15 nein User Guide Version 2 0 transliterated name is AUHNA and the tran
3. aeseceeeceesesesaeeeeeesesesersaaaas 10 Loading COVeFages iicas dise iecore diee ie adhe Hawes Ew ee EORR RERO ER WE eee eed EE PEERS A 10 Editing and creating new 11 Projecting data to another coordinate system esses eese eterne ener entere 13 Feat re identification Jis ces ee eit tne atta teer kenne he ere ran Ede eae arten ah Ex Pena Feels ehe Lee e eed gend 14 Populating the missing attribute values eese eee eee eene nennen nene 14 Saving names of the features with different 14 h EuroGlobalMap Page 2 User Guide Version 2 0 Introduction This User Guide has been designed to provide you information needed to use the EuroGlobalMap EGM dataset The Guide is arranged into the following sections Introduction contact details copyrights other general information Overview of EGM data provides an introduction to EGM product Using contains some instructions on how to use the dataset Additional documents for detailed information are specifications egmspec3 1 pdf Technical Guide Technical Guide for data collecting v1 4 pdf allowed attribute values for features Al structure 3 1 xls If you find an error omission or have a suggestion about how this Guide can be im proved please contact E
4. dm r si s T v rz kel si Int zet Iceland Landmeelingar Islands Ireland Ordnance Survey Ireland Italy Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano Latvia Latvijas Republikas Valsts zemes dienests Liechtenstein Bundesamt f r Landestopographie Switzerland Lithuania Nacionalin Zemes tarnyba Luxembourg Administration du Cadastre et de la Topographie Malta Malta Environment and Planning Authority MEPA Moldova State Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre Netherlands Topografische Dienst Nederland Northern Ireland Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland Norway Statens Kartverk Poland G wny Urz d Geodezji i Kartografii Portugal Instituto Geogr fico Portugu s Rep of Slovakia Geodetick a kartografick stav Romania CNGCFT National Center of Geodesie Cartography Fotogrametry and Remote Sensing Slovenia Geodetska Uprava Republike Slovenije Spain Centro Nacional de Informacion Geografica Instituto Geogr fico Nacional Sweden Lantm teriet Switzerland Bundesamt f r Landestopographie Ukraine Research Institute of Geodesy and Cartography EGM product is owned by all National Mapping Agencies above and collectively represented by EuroGeographics For publications the following copyright statement applies geographics This product includes data licensed from EuroGeographics The way in which branding copyright and trademarks should be dealt with
5. en additional tables ADMIN ISN SHNX NAM and coverage ADMIN are not established You can create the relation by command ARC gt RELATE ADD lt relate gt lt table gt database info item lt late column LINEAR ORDERED LINK TABLE FIRST RW AUTO See more details about relating additional tables and working with different lan guages in Arclnfo Online Help and Technical Guide chapter 3 1 5 and Annex1 Editing and creating new coverages If you want to use the data in a metric coordinate system please FIRST cre ate pick the data of the wanted area in decimal degrees and THEN project the whole set to a metric coordinate system If you want to create a new coverage e g WATERs of three neighbouring countries you can either CLIP the wanted data out of the corresponding Europe coverage with as small fuzzy tolerance as possible OR Create the wanted data combination e g in ArcEdit using coverages in country area sub directories Areas You can normally combine coverages which have point or line node topology e g with ArcInfo command APPEND or in ArcEdit with command GET EuroGlobalMap Page 11 geographies User Guide Version 2 0 FICRI SPRIN DAMWE TRANS AIRPO SETTP ELEVP and NAMES After combining the coverages just rebuild the line or point topology with the command BUILD Combining coverages with polygon or line polygon NET
6. esigned for business use and can be exploited for analysis covering large areas environment hydrography population transportation geographical names and mainly is focused to serve as geographic back drop for presentation and visualisation See the more information on EGM project s websites http www eurogeographics org eng 03 projects overview asp Data directory structure filenames In the EGM v2 0 the data is divided to two main directories themes each covering the whole data area Europe themes each covering one data directory area country by country data Europe data area is a combination of country basis datas Each Arclnfo export files contain maximum 500 000 rows next volumes like e01 e02 Geo database and shape files are not divided to parts Directory lines between areas follow mostly latitude longitude axes and state boundaries The picture above shows the data directory areas in EGM v2 0 EuroGlobalMap Page 6 EROR User Guide Version 2 0 Each directory area contains one country area There are however the follow ing exceptions Monaco is included to the directory area FX France Metropol San Marino and Vatican are included to directory area IT Italy Gibraltar is included to directory area ES Spain Northern Ireland is in direct
7. geographics EuroGlobalMap User Guide Refers to EGM 2 0 released at January 2007 aph EuroGlobalMap Page 1 User Guide Version 2 0 Contents INTRODUCTION amp tsesesiscasenscessenssetvassseaveaesasdexassd sanoanensesnaanssavessseedsanssosaonsoassdeasesdeavaonvocdeasishaaue oss 3 CONTACT DETATES iiss 022m r O Eu Baal 3 PRODUCT PERFORMANCE usa eene Re URN E E nee EUR RV E EN AER enge SUN TUER VET ART FUN AEN date Nen enter ee 3 lBErwyse 3 DELIVERY OF EGM M 4 DATA COPYRIGHT 2 20 4 USER GUIDE COPYRIGHT 4 TRADE MARKS ann ie ini nei sunshine 4 OVERVIEW OF DATA 22u200s00s000000200n000200n00n000200200000R0000000 sesso se tastes sone tasses seta sesso seta sess ases etas ea 5 GENERAL PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 5 DATA DIRECTORY STRUCTURE FILENAMES cesses en ener tren eene eren eren ener ener nene 6 METADATA DIRECTORY STRUCTURE AND METADATA 9 USING EGM enm 10 WHAT YOU NEED TO USE BGM use ree Per EE E RE RR 10 HOraAWONE mr Q 10 unn TEM 10 USING WITH ARC INFO WORKSTATION cc ccsccccecsssesscecececeesesesseaecececeesess
8. ind the problems named above Important Command CLEAN is not recommended at all to coverages with geographical coordinates because decimal degrees measure angles not dis tances see more details ArcInfo Online Help CLEAN This is the reason to keep the tolerances as small as possible to avoid any changes in line geome try Important When combining adjacent polygon coverages new polygons with unknown feature code item F_CODE is empty can appear These are new background areas dc d e e e eee de dc e ee e e e toe Glacier Glacier Combined layers country A country B The above example shows why the combining of the layers can create new background polygons EuroGlobalMap Page 12 geographies User Guide Version 2 0 Important There are some enclave areas in Europe where the administrative units inside country A belong to country B e One area inside Switzerland belongs to Germany e One area inside Switzerland belongs to Italy e One area inside France belong to Spain Important Note that the features in possible in dispute areas are saved to the databases of the both neighbouring countries EGM version 2 0 does not con tain any in dispute areas but there are some lines coded like undefined or in dispute If you want to edit a coverage with a decimal degree coordinate system we pro pose first to set the tolerances quite small Before exporting the coverages the tolerances edi
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10. ory NI code not according ISO 3166 Channel Isles Jersey Guernsey Alderney Sark are not included Some outer sea islands are not included Svalbard Spitsbergen Jan Mayen island Files are named according the ISO 3166 two character country codes e g Eu roglobalmap_ES mdb Geodatabase data area Depending on the format selected the following files are included Geodatabase files o Full Europe Euroglobalmap mdb o Countries areas Euroglobalmap ES mdb etc Shape files Shape files are converted from geodatabases Each feature class is saved to a separate shape file e g AirfldP shp see the image below 2 B Geodatabases EuroGlobalMap mdb 2 20 EuroGlobalMap E Airfldp BuiltupA EF BuiltupP CoastA CoastL DamL Elevp Exitc FerryL amp Island LakeresA LandiceA NameT amp PolbndA PolbndL EJ Railrdc x RailrdL RoadL Sead E Spring E SpringP watrcrs gx WatrersL z ADMIN ISN amp ADMIN ISN to SHN NAM z CHR SHN NAM amp 5 Polbnd SHNO Q SHN_to_Polbnd amp _SHN1 Q SHN_to_Polbnd amp _SHN2 2 SHN PolbndA SHN3 9 SHN to Polbnd SHN4 EuroGlobalMap Page 7 ne in User Guide Version 2 0 Arcinfo Export files Theme ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARY ADMIN e00 administrative boundaries line polygon topology Theme HYDROGRAPHY WATER e00
11. pulating the missing attribute values There are no empty attribute fields in the EGM database All features have valid values for all attributes If the attribute is logically impossible for the feature e g height value in layer WATER for a river a special No null value code is used If the feature does not have a certain attribute value e g a name with the secondary language then value not applicable is used If the NMA does not have certain attribute information values like unknown or unpopulated are used See more details in EGM specifications Saving names of the features with different languages Maximum two national languages are used to save the names of each feature name of the country with maximum three languages These items NAMN1 and NAMN2 can use different code pages character sets Some countries have however used different primary and secondary languages in different ar eas of the country The next languages are used in EGM Country area Language Code Character set GB English ENG 1 AT German GER 1 BE French FRE 1 BE Dutch DUT 1 BE German GER 1 CH German GER 1 CH French FRE 1 CH Italian ITA 1 CH Raeto Romance ROH 1 CZ Czech CZE 2 DE German GER 1 DK Danish DAN 1 EE Estonian EST 14 ES Spanish SPA 1 ES Basque BAQ 1 ES Catalan CAT 1 ES Gallegan GLG 1 FI Finnish FIN 1 EuroGlobalMap Page 14 geographies User Guide Version 2 0 FI Swedish SWE 1 FX French FRE 1 GR GREEK G
12. re code page is the current Target code page e g in a case above ARC gt amp codepage 88951 when the command ARC gt amp show amp codepage gives ARC gt Native code page 88591 Target code page 88591 Important Note that all name attributes are saved also with ASCII letters items NAMA1 NAMA2 EuroGlobalMap Page 10 ne in User Guide Version 2 0 Important Note that EGM coverages use SINGLE PRECISION coordinate ac curacy If your default precision value is set to DOUBLE new coverages e g after combining operations will be created with double coordinate precision If you have not set any coordinate precision Arclnfo uses SINGLE HIGHEST as default To set default precision as Single please set ARC gt precision single single See the details in ArcInfo Online Help To import EGM coverages use Arc Info command IMPORT ARC gt IMPORT COVER interchange file coverage name Example ARC IMPORT COVER ADMIN ADMIN To import EGM INFO files use Arc Info command IMPORT Example ARC gt IMPORT INFO shnOnam shn0 nam Recommendation Export files were converted from Geodatabases in National Land Survey Finland It is possible that all national characters in all languages are not converted correctly If having problems with the national characters it is recommended to convert coverages from shape files IGN FX has produced AML macros to help this conversion Important Relations betwe
13. scripted name like it is pro nounced in Greece is ATHINA EuroGlobalMap Page 16 nein User Guide Version 2 0 Annexes geographics EuroGlobalMap User Guide Version 2 0 Page 17 Annex A Please complete and send to Product Manager EuroGeographics 6 8 Ave Blaise Pascal Cit Descartes Champs sur Marne 77455 Marne la Vall Cedex 2 France Fax 33 0 1 64 15 32 19 e mail contact EuroGeographics org Description of problem encountered suggestion Version of data Your name Company Address Telephone Facsimile e mail Product performance report from DVD CD EuroGlobalMap geograpnics User Guide Version 2 0 Page 18 Annex B Copyright statements EGM data copyright is held by European National Mapping Agencies Austria Bundesamt f r Eich und Vermessungswesen Belgium Institut G ographique National Belgique Croatia Drzavna Geodetska Uprava Cyprus Lands and Surveys Survey and Cartogr Br Czech Republic Cesky rad zememericky a katastr ln Denmark Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen Estonia Maaamet Faroe Islands O Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen Finland Maanmittauslaitos France Institut G ographique National France Germany Bundesamt f r Kartographie und Geod sie Great Britain Ordnance Survey Greece Hellenic Military Geographical Service Greenland Kort og Matrikelstyrelsen Hungary F l
14. series see the details in EGM specifications and the Technical Guide UNICODE system is used in Geodatabase Metadata According 15019115 standard Coverage Andorra Austria Belgium Croatia Czech Republic Cyprus Den mark Estonia Finland Faroe Islands France Germany Gibraltar Greece Great Britain Greenland Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Monaco Moldova Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland The Netherlands Ukraine and Vatican The product will be gradually extended targeting to cover the whole of the Europe Product types for supply EGM will be supplied on annual subscription basis including the updates issued in the license period The term seamless means that there are no gaps between graphical objects initially derived from different sources The datasets covering these countries are included to the data directories of the surround ing areas Spain France and Italy EuroGlobalMap Page 5 User Guide Version 2 0 Update The product is constantly updated over a two years cycle on aver age Product formats ArcGIS personal Geodatabase ArcGIS v9 1 Arc Shape files ArcInfo export format Diverse formats might be available from On Line web service VARs and distributors Distribution media DVD CD ROM On Line download EuroGlobalMap is d
15. t fuzzy dangle snap nodesnap weed grain have been set to extremely small 000000001 These are saved to file in the coverage directory Use Arclnfo command TOLERANCE to change the tolerances Suitable tolerances are e g OPTION Tolerances for editing EDIT 00001 SNAP 00001 NODESNAP 0001 WEED 00001 GRAIN 00001 Projecting EGM data to another coordinate system In each EGM coverage the following coordinate system is defined COORDINATE SYSTEM DESCRIPTION Projection GEOGRAPHIC Datum WGS84 DD Spheroid WGS84 When projecting the data use ArcInfo command PROJECT You have to define the OUTPUT projection parameters in an interactive session or set those in a projection file See the details in ArcInfo Online Help Important Note that if you are going to use the data in a metric coordinate sys tem it s probably better to make the data combination if combination is wanted before the projection when the coverages are in decimal degrees Only the original coverages are edge matched with each other correctly geographics EuroGlobalMap User Guide Version 2 0 Page 13 Feature identification coding In each coverage inside a country the identification number of the feature e g the value of the item TRANS ID in INFO table TRANS AAT corresponds the Arclnfo s internal code e g TRANS in TRANS AAT This is the same with lines points and nodes in Trans also Po
16. thout a user interface for displaying or analysing it Whatever you want to do with the data you need to have a appro priate software EGM can be used directly with the Arc Info GIS system and may also be im ported into other GIS software packages Using EGM with Arc Info Workstation This section provides some basic commands to help you to start using EGM in Arc Info Workstation For more details of Arc Info commands see the docu ments provided with the software Some parts of this text is valid for geodata bases and shape files also Loading coverages Important Before importing or exporting any EGM data please remember to set your Native code page same as your Target code page This is because otherwise Arc Info will make a code page conversion between these two code pages and all the attribute values in items where national characters are used like NAMN1 and 2 are corrupted and you can t see the contents of these items correct on screen even in a case you have all the fonts necessary When the Native code page and the Target code page are set the same ArcInfo will not make any code page conversions and all the values of the name attrib utes stay as they are To check your current code page settings use a command ARC gt amp show amp codepage when the answer is e g ARC gt Native code page 850 Target code page 88591 Now to set the right codepage use command ARC gt amp codepage code page whe
17. topology is a little bit more complicated ADMIN WATER GLACI CITYA These layers definitely own ADMIN or can own WATER GLACI CITYA lines which are saved to the databases of the both neighbouring countries lines running along the international boundaries Lines which have exactly the same geometry can normally be deleted in ArcInfo with a command CLEAN this is done automatically e g when using Arc command MAPJOIN for combin ing adjacent POLY or NET coverages MAPJOIN APPEND CLEAN BUT CLEAN uses a calculated fuzzy tolerance value the minimum distance between arc vertices if not any given by the user or if the value given by the user is smaller than the calculated value On single precision coverages CLEAN calculates a minimum tolerance based on the mathematical precision of the coverage based on the width of the BND and the number of decimal places If the calculated minimum tolerance is greater than the fuzzy tolerance entered on the command line the calculated minimum tolerance is used Arc Online Help If this fuzzy tolerance value calculated automatically by Arclnfo is big enough it can cause undesired changes in line geometry If the calculated tolerance is greater than your application allows an alternative to CLEAN is to run INTERSECTERR at ARC or ARCEDIT correct the intersecting arcs in ARCEDIT then run BUILD Arc Online Help CLEAN does not necessarily cause any problems but please keep in m
18. uroGeographics at the address shown below under contact details Contact details If you have problems using EGM or any questions related to the dataset or its use please contact EuroGeographics or the distributor from which you purchased the data EuroGeographics s address is EuroGeographics 6 8 Ave Blaise Pascal Cit Descartes Champs sur Marne 77455 Marne la Vall e Cedex 2 France Telephone 33 0 1 64 15 32 73 Facsimile 33 0 1 64 15 32 19 e mail contact EuroGeographics org WWW http www EuroGeographics org The addresses of the contact persons in national mapping agencies are listed in cor responding metadata files Product performance Liability If you have any problems or identify any errors in the data please complete the product performance report provided in Annex A A full description of the terms and conditions of supply and use of EGM is included in the End User Licence signed by your organisation EuroGeographics and the national mapping agencies contributing to EGM have made every effort to ensure that data supplied are free from errors and omissions The quality checking of the data is made by EGM Hegional Coordinators Possible exceptions from EGM specifications are named in the metadata files It is the Customer s responsibility to ensure that the data ordered are suitable for the intended purpose Neither EuroGeographics nor the national mapping agencies will EuroGlobalMap Page 3
19. waters line polygon topolygy o DAMWE e00 Dams line topology o SPRIN e00 Springs point topology o GLACI e00 Glaciers and other ice features line polygon topol o o FICRI e00 Fictitious rivers line topology Theme TRANSPORTATION TRANS e00 Transportation network line node topology o AIRPO e00 Airports point topology Theme BUILT UP AREAS o SETTP e00 Settlement points point topology o CITYA e00 Settlement areas polygon topology Theme ELEVATION o ELEVP e00 Elevation points point topology Theme NAMED LOCATION o NAMES e00 Geographical names point topology INFO tables as export files o egmchr e00 egm chr Character sets used for each language o adminisn e00 admin isn Names of the administrative levels o shnOnam e00 shnO nam Name of the country o shn nam e00 shn1 nam Names of adm units 1 national level o shn2nam e00 shn2 nam Names of adm units in 2 national level o shn3nam e00 shn3 nam Names of adm units in 3 national level o shn4nam e00 shn4 nam Names of adm units in 4 national level o shn5nam e00 shn5 nam Names of adm units in 5 national level Important Note that not all coverages exist in all directories e g layer GLACI is not created for those countries where ice features do not exist Note that annotations in layer NAMES are optional and do not exist in all directories or will be included during the EGM releases later Note that not all shn nam tables e
20. xcel and Word are a trade marks of Microsoft h EuroGlobalMap Page 4 User Guide Version 2 0 Overview of EGM data General product description EGM v2 0 is a pan European dataset containing basic geographic information at the scale 1 1 M covering 40 European countries and or administrative areas see the map on the first page of this document and the list below It is seam less and harmonised data and is produced in cooperation by the National Mapping Agencies of Europe using official national databases EuroGlobalMap contains six themes e Administrative boundaries Hydrography Transportation Built up areas settlements Elevation elevation points Named location geographical names Coordinates Geographical in degrees longitude latitude with decimal frac tion and based on the ETRS89 spatial reference system which corresponds WGS84 reference system Data in diverse coordinates might be available from On Line web service VARs and distributors Coordinate accuracy coverages SINGLE PRECISION 7 significant digits e g 61 00001 dd ArcGIS Personal Geodatabase and Shape files 9 significant digits e g 61 0000001 dd Positional accuracy 1000 meters or at least 2000 meters Feature selection Smallest areal units are about 0 5 km See detailed in structions in EGM v3 1 specifications Feature coding structure DIGEST FACC Edition 2 1 Sep 2001 Character sets used 1508859
21. xist in all directories depends on the number of administrative levels included in that country EuroGlobalMap Page 8 User Guide Version 2 0 Metadata directory structure and metadata files There are two kinds of metadata files available a table MS Excel file and a text document sub directory Lineages The table contains metadata accord ing the 15019115 standard and the text file contains additional information Lineage files are Word files or PDF files Files EGM_Metadata_V2 0 xls and Lineage EGM V2 0 doc pdf concern the whole EGM data data description level 1 while metadata files like EGM Metadata ES xls concern the EGM metadata on country basis data description level 2 Files are named like follows metadata CC xls e g Metadata ES htm Lineage CC doc pdf e g Lineage ES doc The next countries areas have common metadata files Belgium Luxembourg data production Belgium Switzerland Liechtenstein data production Switzerland Andorra Spain Gibraltar data production Spain Italy San Marino Vatican data production Italy EuroGlobalMap Page 9 User Guide Version 2 0 Using EGM What you need to use EGM Hardware Software EGM can be used with any computer platform from a PC to a mainframe There are no any specific hardware requirements for managing EGM data EGM is a dataset and is delivered wi
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