Digital Map of the Baltic Sea Region MapBSR A new tool for co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region National 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

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 PrimarySecondary 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.) PrimarySecondary 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

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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 ?

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.

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