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- Albania
- Austria
- the VRVis research center includes
a
3D City Modeling project which has done some of the city of Graz
- CyberCity
AG has a commercial 3D model of the
city center of Salzburg,
generated with CyberCity-Modeler using photogrammetry and aerial imagery.
The whole model was automatically textured using oblique aerial images and
was processed for an online interactive visualization with
TerrainView-Web (ViewTec AG).
- Belgium
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- GISDATA.com is based
in Zagreb (Croatia) but they sell data for B&H as well
- one contact in Zenica bought 20m ArcGRID DEM of their region
- there are 10 subdivision called Canton (also kanton or zupanija) further
subdivided into municipalities, e.g. Zenica-Doboj Canton (to the right)
- the typical projection for Bosnian data is:
- Projection: Transverse Mercator
Datum: Potsdam (Germany) or somewhere called MGI Balkans Zone 6
Central Meridian Scale Factor: 0.9999
Central Meridian: 18
Origin Latitude: 0
False Easting 6500000 m
False Northing: 0 m
Spheroid: Bessel
- Croatia
- GISDATA.com again:
they sell a wide variety of data include DEM, vector data, imagery, land
use, even 3D building models - for Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia
& Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia
- contacts: Robert Sabocanec (robert.sabocanec@soko.hr)
- Terrain modelling, and Sasa Bistrovic (sasa.bistrovic@soko.hr)
- Visualization; their area is some parts of Croatia (Mediterranean part
near Pula, Zadar and capital Zagreb)
- there is a Free Croatia project, headed by Josip Almasi of
vrspace.org
- The vrspace Sourceforge
page links to a 'Free Croatia' VRML model (25MB) which incorporates
SRTM and
a MODIS snapshot for the basemap, with inset models for a fair in
Zagreb, hunters house muljava on petrova gora, and center of Zagreb.
'Most of the models were designed in MAX. Still some others were converted
to VRML from acad. Some were handcoded, like trees and rivers.'
- Czech Republic
- The Virtual Old Prague Project
has created some textured facades, distributed as VRML, for some streets
in the old part of Prague
- GEODIS Brno s.r.o. licenses
data including a 25m DTM and 0.5m orthophotos for the whole country
- the country is around 485*280 km in extent, so that's 19400*11200
elevation and 970000*560000 imagery at the full commercially available
resolution
- Ostrava region: in 2007, Jozef Inglot (jozef.inglot.st@vsb.cz)
made a simple VTP scene of Ostrava
- consists of ~90m elevation, ~25m imagery, 41241 buildings from footprints,
and roads
-
- The unusual projection "JTSK" is commonly used for Czech and Slovak
data.
- Denmark
- Finland
- from a Finn: "For available data you can ask from Stuart Fish (
stuart.fish@novogroup.com
), he will be happy to sell some data :-) I know that at least DEM
with 25 meter cellsize is available, but expensive(?)"
- National Land Survey of Finland
sells map data, and MapSite
provide free image-only browsing, some sample files are reportedly available
- the national grid coordinate system (KKJ) is used in nation-wide mapping
- Reportedly, the city of Helsinki from 1997 to 2002 produced a 3D model
of the whole city, and continue to upgrade their basemap from 2D to 3D,
including the use of laser scanning for structures.
- contact Harri Lilja has
done VTP modeling of the Alajoki area in Middle Finland, Municipality
Perho
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- reportedly, digital elevation is available from the military for reasonable
cost: an area of 2x3 kilometers at 10m resolution cost 40.000 HUF ~ 180
USD
-
Iceland
- report, August 2004: "The
National Land
Survey of Iceland does sell 90m DEM information for Iceland, its expensive.
The whole country costs about 1550$ and then you order specific square km
and each costs about 35 cents with a minimum purchase of about 50$."
- firms such as HNIT also sell
cartographic and aerial data products
- Ireland
- cleaned-up SRTM data (100m) is available from
Geomantics Data Services
- very inexpensive: £20 for each set, or £100 for all 6 sets covering
the UK and Ireland
- Ordnance Survey Ireland is the official
agency, which is as highly restrictive as any NMA. Their website does
not even mention the existence of digital geodata, only the sale of printed
maps and licensing of very limited reproduction rights at high prices.
- Reportedly, for aerial photos there exists data called Ortho2000 (100%
coverage) and Ortho2004 (around 25-30% complete for the entire country)
- Italy
- Malta
- "Elevation data in Malta is available from the
Malta Environment and Planning
Authority which has as one of its functions the National Mapping Agency.
The highest resolution available commercially is 50m and is quite expensive
to buy, going into a few thousand dollars."
- Netherlands
- the city of Apeldoorn created a 3D model in 2004, a project of
Red Geographics
- general contact for people interested in modeling the country: Paul-Christiaan
Diks (paulchristiaan.diks@nl.origin-it.com)
- a company called YDreams did something
called the
Meerstad Project to visualize "planning of a new lake and city within
an 700km2 area, which will significantly change the landscape
of Groningen, an island in the north of The Netherlands."
- July 2006, Gustavo Arciniegas shares a view of a VTP model of his flat
study area Dinkel, the Netherlands. Blue lines outline the Dinkel river
and the polygons represent a certain flood scenario:
- Google 3D Warehouse Cities in Development:
Maastricht
- Poland
- main institutions are the polish cartographic survey GGK (Glówny
Geodeta Kraju, Master Surveyor of Poland) and
Glowny Urzad Geodezjii i Kartografii
(Geodesy and Cartography Main Office)
- CODGiK (Central Office for Geodetic
and Cartographic Documentation)
- conducts a digital data repository for Poland (in various scales:
1:10K - 1:1000K)
- sells some digital data, and has information on coverage of other
polish maps and cartography visualizations
- Index for aerial
photos of Poland
-
www.geoportal.gov.pl is the
new geo-portal for the country, site is all in Polish
- detailed overview
of forestry in Poland (as of 1997)
- the voivod (plural voivodes) is the political division, similar to a
County or Province, each with a governor, and some have a cartographical
information centre (WODGiK)
- reported about elevation data: "DTM is diverse and depends on area of
PL. Resolution starts from 50 x 50 m; through 40x40 and 25 x 25, and
ends on 15 x 15 m. BUT in some voivodes DEM is available in resolution 10x10
m. Formats of DTM are usually DGN (Microstation) ... and sometimes in ESRI
or Mapinfo."
- University of Silesia is creating
dataset about Upper Silesia and Cracow-Częstochowa Uplands
- contact: Tomasz Nycz (
t_nycz@strazNIESPAM.tgory.pl )
- in Bytom, Geography Student's Science Centre - University of Silesia
(SKNG US) Faculty of Earth Sciences, Sosnowiec, Silesia voivodship
- contact: Misio ( piotrpad@priv1.onet.pl
)
- he says: "I've got some computer maps (roads, lakes/rivers, bigger
hills, cities, city maps etc.) but rather poor source of data."
- contact: Grzegorz Galezowski (
g.galezowski@mobilecomputing.pl
) in Świdnik
- he has created a VRML file of Świdnik with simple road and building
blocks - see Świdnik 3D
- Portugal
- no contact yet, but promising government site:
CNIG / SNIG (Sistema
Nacional de Informação Geográfica / National System for Geographic
Information) provides 'access' to geographic information produced by national
public agencies, although it is not free data
- the site is in Portuguese and English, but the English side seems to
have many broken links
- there is a beautiful nearly-cloud-free
true color 250m image in the MODIS gallery
- Romania
- Russia - see Asia
- Slovakia
- contact: Jozef Inglot <jozef.inglot@inMail.sk>
- used the VTP software in 2006 to create terrain visualization of
Ilija - "small village near B. Štiavnica, Slovakia, for Bacalar project
in FPV UMB, B. Bystrica."
- Jozef writes: "Many sources for it comes from "Kataster Nehnutelnosti"
(Slovakian real estate register), but some sources we can not find anywhere,
so we just go there and see it (we don't have any geodetic accessories
now, so they are not geodetic-precise). We make much photos from this
village, and we log information about visual look of almost every house
there. The source of vegetation and locations of trees comes from airplane
photos. Elevation model was DEM model, created by me from scanned contour-line
elevation map. We have very nice historical center (Banska Stiavnica
is in UNESCO)."
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- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- Ukraine
