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Download of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data layers

Global and European GIS layers are in geodetic coordinates (longitude, latitude), datum WGS84.
Data can be downloaded in two different formats: Idrisi and ESRI. In some cases, you can also view the maps with your internet browser directly, thanks to a Web Map Service (WMS).
Here you can find a description of the GIS layers.

 

Surface units

Administrative Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regular Units

Environmental variables

Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Topography




















































GIS layers description - Surface units & Environmental variables


EDIT Map Viewer

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Any comment, suggestion, or
information about new sources
of geographic data will be very
welcome. Please contact:

Jorge Jorge M. Lobo

Teresa Cuartero Arteta

Original Sources

Thanks to the resources of the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT), our team has been able to compile a huge amount of global and European digital cartography from freely available but dispersed original sources:

 


Pigmaei gigantum humeris impositi
plusquam ipsi gigantes vident
(Bernardo de Chartres, s.XII)


If I have seen a little further it is by
standing on the shoulders of Giants
(Isaac Newton, s.XVIII)