1. Title:
2. EuroRegionalMap, a pan-European database at medium scale suitable for spatial analysis, network analysis and visualisation
3. Abstract:
4. The EuroRegionalMap database is intended as a topographic framework or base data product for multi-purpose GIS at the scale of 1:250.000 covering the whole of Europe seamlessly and more or less homogeneously in order to facilitate the implementation of cross-border and pan-European GIS as well as the transfer of GIS expertise and solutions from one national market to another.
5. This project  is at a demonstration phase starting with the production for 7 countries and preparing the extended production on Europe
6. Supplemental_Information:
7. It will be produced by the official National Mapping Agencies of Europe in a deliberately pragmatic approach towards harmonisation of existing national databases. This pragmatic approach entails that at this stage only six NMAs are participating in the harmonisation process  and furthermore that the result will not be entirely standardised by including the notion that not all specifications have to be uniformly complied with from the outset by all the partners. Partners have the opportunity to integrate the specification gradually and at different speeds into what remains basically a national effort of data collection and maintenance.
8. Cost constraints are not the only reason for this. EuroRegioMap wants to avoid the trap of a harmonised database produced in a one-time effort that cannot be sustained in the longer run when the database has to be maintained. By admitting that the harmonisation of national databases to the full high-quality EuroRegionalMap specification happens step by step, it is hoped that national data collection and maintenance procedures will effectively converge and form a reliable basis for future maintenance and enhancements.
   
9. For the project, a core of mandatory specifications has thus been chosen that all partners can uniformly produce when taking into account the status of their national databases and the resources available to them for re-engineering. Partners who have more advanced GIS structured national databases or more resources will nevertheless have the option to go beyond this core level of harmonisation and produce data that comply with all or some of the specifications marked as optional.

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