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ANNUAL REVIEW 2020 Ireland ANNUAL REVIEW 2020 Ireland . 60 . CONTENT Lithuania . 62 Northern Ireland . .64 EUROGEOGRAPHICS AND ITS MEMBERS North Macedonia . 66 Connecting you to maps, geospatial Poland . 68 . and land information for Europe . 5 Portugal . .70 . List of Members . 6 Romania . .72 . President’s Report . 8 . Russia . 74. About Us . 10 Slovenia . .76 . Slovakia . .78 . HIGHLIGHT 2020 Spain . 80 CASE STUDIES Switzerland . 82 Armenia . .24 . The Netherlands . .84 Austria . 26 . Ukraine . 86 . Belgium . 28. Bosnia and Herzegovina . 30 EUROGEOGRAPHICS AISBL Croatia . 32 Finances . 88 . Cyprus . 34 Management Board . 90 Czech Republic . .36 Head Office . 91 . Denmark . 38 Finland . 42 France . 44. Germany . 46 Great Britain . 50 Greece . 54 Hungary . 58. CONNECTING YOU TO MAPS, GEOSPATIAL AND LAND INFORMATION FOR EUROPE EuroGeographics is proud to be the voice of the European National Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration Authorities. We bring together national authorities from the whole of geographical Europe in a unique international not-for-profit membership association. By providing a single point of contact, we enable government, business and citizens to benefit from their official, reliable, comparable and verifiable geospatial data and collective expertise. Today our members provide much more than traditional maps and you probably use their data and services around 40 times every day – often from your phone. We work in partnership with members to facilitate access to authoritative information and, by integrating it into a sustainable infrastructure for the public good, our vision is to support a society empowered by the use of trusted geospatial services from official national sources. Visit our website: https://eurogeographics.org/ 4 5 EuroGeographics Annual Report 2020 List of Members LIST OF MEMBERS ALBANIA BOSNIA & DENMARK GREAT BRITAIN LITHUANIA NORTHERN IRELAND SERBIA SWITZERLAND State Authority for HERZEGOVINA Danish Geodata Agency Her Majesty’s Land National Land Service Land and Property Republic Geodetic Federal Office of Geospatial Information Federal Administration Agency for Data Supply Registry under the Ministry of Services Authority Topography State Cadastral Agency for Geodetic and Real and Efficiency Ordnance Survey Agriculture Property Affairs NORTH MACEDONIA SLOVAKIA THE NETHERLANDS Registers of Scotland State Enterprise Centre ARMENIA Republic Authority for ESTONIA of Registers Agency for Real Estate Geodesy, Cartography Cadastre, Land Registry Cadastre and Cadastre Authority of and Mapping Agency Cadastre Committee of Geodetic and Property Estonian Land Board GREECE the Republic of Armenia Affairs of Republic of LUXEMBOURG the Slovak Republic Hellenic Military NORWAY TURKEY Srpska FINLAND Administration of Geographical Service SLOVENIA AUSTRIA National Land Survey of the Cadastre and Norwegian Mapping General Directorate of BULGARIA Hellenic Cadastre Federal Office of Finland Topography Authority Surveying and Mapping Mapping Metrology and Surveying Geodesy, Cartography Authority of the Republic HUNGARY and Cadastre Agency FRANCE MALTA POLAND of Slovenia UKRAINE Lechner Non-Profit Ltd. AZERBAIJAN National Institute of Malta Planning Authority Head Office of Geodesy State Service of Ukraine CROATIA SPAIN State Committee on Geographic and Forest and Cartography for Geodesy, Cartography ICELAND Malta Land Registry Property Issues of the State Geodetic Information National Geographic and Cadastre National Land Survey PORTUGAL Institute of Spain Republic of Azerbaijan Administration of the MOLDOVA Republic of Croatia GEORGIA of Iceland Directorate General for Agency for Land General Directorate for BELARUS Territory National Agency of Registers Iceland Relations and Cadastre the Cadastre CYPRUS State Committee on Public Registry of the Republic of Territorial Commission ROMANIA Property of the Republic Cyprus Department of IRELAND Moldova of the Geographic High of Belarus Lands and Surveys GERMANY Ordnance Survey Ireland National Agency for Council Working Committee of MONTENEGRO Cadastre and Land BELGIUM CZECH REPUBLIC Registration of Romania the Surveying Authorities ITALY Cadastre and State SWEDEN National Geographic Czech Office for of the Laender of the Italian Geographic Property Administration The Swedish Mapping, RUSSIA Institute Surveying, Mapping and Federal Republic of Military Institute Cadastral and Land Cadastre Germany Federal Service for State General Administration Revenue Agency Registration Authority Registration, Cadastre of Patrimonial Federal Agency for and Cartography Documentation Cartography and KOSOVO* Geodesy Kosovo Cadastral Agency LATVIA The State Land Service Latvian Geospatial Information Agency * This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSC 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence. 6 7 EuroGeographics Annual Report 2020 President‘s Report PRESIDENT’S REPORT Maps – where would we be without them? By connecting maps, people and policies, members are also playing a key role in the countdown to 2030 and When we’re looking for somewhere, they show us the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and where to find it; when we’re buying property, they are contributing to the Digital Europe Programme, the provide secure registration so our ownership is certain; European Strategy for Data, Open Data (PSI) Directive, and when we need help, they enable the emergency Census 2021 and more. services to reach us quickly, saving time, and ultimately lives. As all of these need an unprecedented amount of statistical, geospatial and earth observation data that Whether it’s geospatial or land information, data and is official, reliable, comparable and verifiable, there is services provided by members of EuroGeographics a clear role for our members. Like their membership are a fundamental part of our everyday lives: from apps association, they are driven by serving the public and for exploring outside, to ordering food deliveries; from realising benefits for society in general, a society that online gaming to ensuring we pay the correct amount can trust us to keep data secure and act in its interest of tax, and even reuniting us with lost pets thanks above all else. Finally, I would like to thank Mick Cory, who retired as I wish all our members, data users, stakeholders and to microchip tracking. In fact, you probably use their Secretary General and Executive Director in November EuroGeographics staff well in what has been, and information no less than 40 times a day, often without We will continue to work in partnership with our 2020, for his dedication, professionalism and leadership continues to be, a challenging time in dealing with the even realising. members to facilitate access to their authoritative over the past five years. In turn, we extend a very Covid-19 pandemic. geospatial data and integrate it into a sustainable warm welcome to Léa Bodossian whose high-level infrastructure for the public good. In doing so, we will More than maps: An infrastructure for modern representation, communication and management take yet another step forward in our vision of a society society skills will ensure our members’ roles, capabilities and empowered by the use of trusted geospatial services concerns continue to be understood across the world. Today our members provide much more than the from official national sources. traditional maps we might remember from our school The past year has been extraordinary in many ways, and days. They use cutting edge technologies to collect, Colin Bray we have all had to adjust our way of working. On behalf maintain and deliver high quality, authoritative digital President, EuroGeographics of Management Board, I would like to thank all members, data and services to underpin the infrastructures we and in particular our Production Management Team and rely on as a modern society. MORE THAN MAPS our data producers, who are involved in the compilation In this ever connected world, their move from database and integration of our pan-European datasets, for their production to providing data infrastructures means continued contribution, participation and support. I members play a vital role in joining-up information would also like to recognise the commitment and hard from different sources using location. There are many work of the team at EuroGeographics Head Office in examples in this report including supporting national swiftly moving activities online and introducing new, Aerial survey Digital Emergency Location-based responses to the global pandemic by delivering up virtual ways for us all to remain connected. transformation responses apps to date, accurate data and expertise for government management and monitoring of Covid-19. Other uses include integrating information to provide insights for realising national climate targets and biodiversity plans, using satellite positioning for smarter, precision farming and the development of autonomous Real-time data Smarter, Cleaner, safer, Environmental vehicles; and incorporating artificial intelligence technol- for pandemic sustainable intelligent monitoring & ogy into production processes to improve the detail and response agriculture transport management quality of specific data, particularly for policymakers. 8 9 EuroGeographics Annual Report 2020 Secretary General and Executive Director’s Report ABOUT US Secretary General and More than ever before, the world needs accurate data demonstrating the certainty members provide to citizens, that it can trust
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