Questions tagged [europe]

Questions which are specific to the continent and countries of Europe.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
19 votes
8 answers
101k views

Seeking Free Shapefile of European Countries?

I do not seem to be able to find a free shapefile of the European countries. This is the kind of map I am looking to populate with my own data using ESRI ArcGIS: The Eurostat website only seems to ...
Sannita's user avatar
  • 307
15 votes
5 answers
34k views

Seeking free elevation data for Europe?

Where can I find free elevation data for Europe? The available resolutions and terms of use are important details that I also seek.
9 votes
7 answers
4k views

Seeking historical shapefiles of Europe in modern era

Is there a source for historical shapefiles of Europe in the modern era, i.e. starting ca. 1400? I know that "where can I find historic border data" questions were asked multiple times but I couldn't ...
colonnorron's user avatar
9 votes
0 answers
504 views

Seeking open raw LiDAR or laser scanner data? [duplicate]

I'm looking for aerial LiDAR or terrestrial laser scanner data in laz or las format preferably from an FTP site. Does anyone know which countries have that data available to the public? From my ...
8 votes
4 answers
12k views

Looking for geodata of Europe's major roads

As stated in the title, I'm currently looking for a shapefile/other geodata source of Europe's major roads (highways). If anybody knows a free datasource (or a possibility to extract that data from ...
chriserik's user avatar
  • 1,311
7 votes
2 answers
7k views

Locating shapefile of European railways for goods transportion

We are trying to make a project about European goods trade so we need railway data in shapefile format. More specifically, we are trying to find the potential of mine products being exported from ...
mustafaergun's user avatar
6 votes
1 answer
3k views

Seeking European City boundary data?

Does anyone know any sources for free European city boundary data?
Brian Landes's user avatar
6 votes
3 answers
5k views

What is the ideal equal-area projection to map Germany, Switzerland and Austria (DACH)?

I am wondering if there is a standard projection if you want to map the neighboring countries of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (known as "DACH" in equal-area? For Europe there is EPSG:3035 which ...
bugmenot123's user avatar
  • 10.9k
6 votes
3 answers
8k views

real-time weather forecast raster for Europe

I am trying to find a numeric weather forecast map (air pressure, temperature, snowfall, precipitation..) that I could display in my web map client. For the client I'm currently using OpenLayers with ...
jirikadlec2's user avatar
  • 1,330
5 votes
3 answers
2k views

Are there better climate data than Worldclim for Europe?

I am looking for the best available climate data in Europe. Worldclim seems to be the best source of information for global data, but I am wondering if there is a higher resolution (better than 1km ...
radouxju's user avatar
  • 49.6k
5 votes
2 answers
8k views

Free data with good accuracy of Europe and Mediterranean

I'm searching for free data like Europe's coastline and Mediterranean island's names etc. but with good precision. I found some shp file from this site http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/ but ...
Vassilis's user avatar
  • 3,444
5 votes
2 answers
4k views

WMS weather data for Europe

I am looking for a source of weather data for Europe. I use http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/goes/conus_vis.cgi? and http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/nexrad/n0r.cgi? for the US,...
Matt Miller's user avatar
4 votes
2 answers
5k views

Seeking European Mountains Shapefile

I am trying to locate a GIS freely downloadable shapefile (preferably polygon) of European main mountain chains (not an elevation data), eg Alps, Carpathian Mountains. I tried variuos sources , ...
Magda's user avatar
  • 49
4 votes
0 answers
136 views

Cropping EUDEM with GDAL creates zig-zag terrain

I have downloaded EUDEM (20 Gb) from http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eu-dem#tab-original-data When I try to crop it by GDAL using: gdalwarp -dstalpha -of EHdr -crop_to_cutline -cutline ...
Matej's user avatar
  • 295
4 votes
3 answers
696 views

Seeking decadal climate and ocean data for Europe

Where can I find 'decadal' climate and ocean data for Europe that I can download and use directly in ArcGIS Desktop? Specifically, I am looking for mean annual temperature, sea surface temperature, ...
Keith Larson's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
769 views

Choosing CRS for area of interest of my project

I've been searching through several web pages and haven't found an answer. I work in QGIS, usually with EPSG:25830 because my projects are mainly located in Spain but when representing a larger area I ...
jpinilla's user avatar
  • 3,230
3 votes
2 answers
2k views

Appropriate CRS for land-use change within EU?

I'm currently studying coordinate reference systems and using ArcGIS Pro 2.8 to find appropriate CRSs for different circumstances. To conduct an analysis of land-use change in the EU, would the best ...
saltytooth's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
84 views

GeoNetwork address format

In GeoNetwork 3.4, the default format for Metadata information "Contact" is the American Format i.e. street, nummer, city, Postal Code, Country example: Rue Vautier 29, Bruxelles, 1000, Belgium ...
Nicolas deville's user avatar
3 votes
2 answers
1k views

Need help creating Europe reference grid map using EEA shape and spatialite files

I'm trying to generate a reference grid map of Europe with country and provincial boundaries using the EEA files available here. Here is an example of country and provincial boundaries with a raster ...
ben's user avatar
  • 263
3 votes
1 answer
541 views

What is seamless spatial information?

In the of the European INSPIRE directive the following "common principles" are presented: 1. Data should be collected only once and kept where it can be maintained most effectively. 2. It ...
ragnvald's user avatar
  • 3,191
3 votes
2 answers
3k views

Where to find Population Density (shp. or grid) for Europe? [closed]

Does anybody know where to download shp. or grid file on European population density (inhabitants/ sq.km)?
Alfred's user avatar
  • 83
3 votes
1 answer
907 views

Address and coordinates of European cities request

I have a database of couple of millions of records which I would like to geocode. The data consists of addresses and council. All addresses are of a certain European city. Questions: May I have ...
Panos Diamantis's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
2k views

Shapefile of European Parliament constituencies? [closed]

Is there any shapefile (or similar vector data set) of European Parliament electoral constituencies? Some countries (e.g. Germany) are basically one constituency, but others (e.g. UK) are not. Is ...
Amandasaurus's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
4k views

Download Airports from OSM

Is there any way to download all airports in Europe from OSM? What I'm looking for is the Airport perimeter, (lines or polygons, dosn't matter) I know that I could download all Europe, and then ...
Pablo Pardo's user avatar
  • 1,063
2 votes
1 answer
4k views

Where can I find a shapefile of the UK electricity grid network?

Does anyone know where can I download a shapefile with the UK electricity grid network?
Ana's user avatar
  • 29
2 votes
1 answer
3k views

Any way to extract NUTS-3 shapefile of Germany from Eurostat' shapefile in R (updated)?

I have downloaded shapefile from Eurostat website (download site for downloading Eurostat shapefile and direct download link of Eurostat shapefile that I am interested in). To be short, I need ...
kim's user avatar
  • 133
2 votes
1 answer
3k views

Download/create address locator styles for Europe?

Where can I find some address locator styles for European countries? or how can I create my own address locator that contains street, house number and city, and use their aliases? PS. I have the ...
user7172's user avatar
  • 1,529
2 votes
1 answer
170 views

Identifying Europe's major road exits using QGIS

Dataset from EuroGeographic and Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS) have been downloaded. The goal is to identify the exits (geocoordinate points) of highways and primary roads (gROADS refers ...
Jerome's user avatar
  • 277
2 votes
2 answers
1k views

Merge multiple buffer files to already available shapefile in QGIS 2.18.2

I want to merge multiple buffer file to already available shapefile but I'm not sure how to do it. I already applied vector->Data management tools->Merge vector layers, but this is not giving me ...
Ahsan Nawaz's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
259 views

Exchange Boundaries and Wire Centers in France and Germany

I am attempting to find a shapefile of wire center service areas / telephone exchanges in France and Germany. Ideally, a point file showing the location of the actual equipment, coupled with a ...
user18824's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
832 views

Looking for a wind WMS for Europe and Africa

I was looking for a wind WMS but couldn't find. I wanted a wind WMS for Europe and Africa. Does anyone know about any?
Pedro Mendes's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
320 views

Download anonymous OSM full history data (no User Id/ Nicknames)

Here my Background: I intend to use OSM Full History Data for OSM data quality analysis. This is part of my current thesis and the data will be stored on a companies computer (Germany). Since the new ...
SunStorm's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
611 views

Flood records/database in Europe

Anyone knows where I can find a complete* database with the historic flood occurrence in Europe, at least since the 70's ? I am looking for some information on the date, number of floods*, amount ...
Gago-Silva's user avatar
  • 2,546
1 vote
2 answers
810 views

Accessing INSPIRE cadastral data through QGIS

I am at the Germany specific Cadastral parcels page on INSPIRE Geoportal, here: I click on the first entry, ALKIS Berlin. Then Download Options. I am presented with a list of "Get Data Set" ...
zabop's user avatar
  • 2,021
1 vote
2 answers
757 views

Create buffer in Metres

I want to create a buffer in meters around points in Europe. But I cannot find a proper CRS for Europe that is in meters instead of degrees?
jess's user avatar
  • 11
1 vote
1 answer
767 views

How to get city boundaries of Europe?

I am looking for an up-to-date communes administrative boundraries (LAU) of several countries in Europe (France + adjacent countries). I need it to be quite precise (less than 5m), since I intend to ...
Arkeen's user avatar
  • 353
1 vote
1 answer
473 views

Crop data for Europe / Germany

I am currently working on the effect of land use on streams in very small catchments (<30km²) in Germany. We have accurate data (ATKIS) on general land use patterns (forests, agriculture, urban ...
andschar's user avatar
  • 1,255
1 vote
1 answer
1k views

Can i get population of area, given coordinates or postal code?

I intend to classify areas based on the population or population density. By classify I mean whether the area is rural, urban or sub urban specifically in Europe. As a input I would have either postal ...
asaini's user avatar
  • 29
1 vote
1 answer
378 views

How much disk space is expected to take an osm2pgsql import of Europe in 2021?

My europe-latest.osm.pbf file is 24GB. I'm currently importing it on 8-core 32GB-RAM server with osm2pgsql as part of switch2osm. I've run the default docker container of switch2osm and after 2 days, ...
0xC0DEGURU's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
605 views

Creating shape around Europe especially France using QGIS?

I want to create shape around Europe especially for France. But I'm not really sure how to do it as I am new in QGIS. Can I get any good suggestion for this task? I'm attaching a picture which shows ...
Ahsan Nawaz's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
391 views

Transformation accuracy or offset in ArcMap?

I'm trying to transform a map from UTM ED 50 zone 33N to WGS84 and vice versa in ArcMap 10.2.2. I'm doing this by using the Project tool in the Arc toolbox and choosing the ED_1950_TO_WGS_1984_12 ...
Geoniette's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
44 views

Obtaining addresses using ArcGIS

I am currently working on Eastern-European microdistricts, and I want to obtain the addresses that can be found in these microdistricts. Is it possible to use ArcGIS to solve this issue? I thought ...
real_sz's user avatar
  • 11
1 vote
0 answers
511 views

How can I add the outline of Europe countries in this figure in R?

Here is my code to create this distribution map of Europe in R. So how can I add the outline in this figure to divide different countries and also add the countries' names in relevant regions? >...
Gloam's user avatar
  • 19
1 vote
0 answers
237 views

European roads toll cost

I'm looking for a dataset or an API that provides information about toll costs of european roads. Something similar to ViaMichelin, that is what we are using now, but preferably free of charge. Does ...
Pablo Pardo's user avatar
  • 1,063
1 vote
0 answers
454 views

Disk usage for Europe (OpenStreetMap)

I would like to know a disk space usage for Europe extract (Nominatim, tile server, both data structures and rendered tiles). I have currently map server with an european country extract and I tried ...
Anad's user avatar
  • 131
1 vote
0 answers
70 views

Night - lights for social welfare

I want to to find the social welfare and the population density for Europe and Africa with night-lights. Is there any site where I can find images with good resolution (I only think VIIRS)??? I have ...
geo_dd's user avatar
  • 604
1 vote
0 answers
56 views

European Rail Freight Map (shapefile or other ArcGIS format)? [duplicate]

I need European Rail Freight Map (shapefile or other ArcGIS format) for a GIS project. Does anyone have this data?
Baran's user avatar
  • 11
1 vote
1 answer
599 views

Seeking Postcode Boundaries for UK, Spain, Canada, Ireland, Brazil [closed]

I seek current Postal Code shapefiles for any or all of these countries. Spain Brazil UK Ireland Canada Free is obviously better but because I may use them commercially I might need to pay for ...
KMatt's user avatar
  • 39
1 vote
0 answers
62 views

severe thunderstorms warnings dataset for europe

I'm looking at the possibility of using georef data on historic thunderstorms alerts. Does anyone know of a good (free) source for this information?
Gago-Silva's user avatar
  • 2,546
0 votes
1 answer
2k views

Seeking Europe shapefile with boundaries [closed]

Where can I find a simple shapefile or Geopackage file for Europe with boundaries?
Darren O'Brien's user avatar