by Admin | Mar 27, 2018 | News
On March 22nd–23rd Janusz Dygaszewicz, President of the EFGS attended the “Open data European Location Services workshop” and the „Joint Policy Knowledge Exchange Network and Business Interoperability Knowledge Exchange Network” meeting,...Read article
by Hugo Poelman | Jan 17, 2018 | News
An updated working paper presents a methodology that takes into account the spatial distribution of both population and green areas throughout the cities’ territory, and produces indicators on the proximity of the green areas to the urban population. To obtain...Read article
by Hugo Poelman | Jan 17, 2018 | News
Cross-border cooperation in the EU addresses the needs of border areas and has been helping to remove obstacles between them for more than 25 years already. To support this policy, quantitative evidence needs to be developed, especially in the areas of transport...Read article
by Admin | Dec 4, 2017 | News
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has approved the Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) as OGC Abstract Specification. The goal of DGGS is to enable rapid assembly of spatial data without the difficulties of working with projected coordinate reference systems....Read article
by Admin | Nov 9, 2017 | News
10th Annual EFGS Conference The 10th Annual European Forum for Geography & Statistics was co-hosted by Central Statistics Office Ireland and Ordnance Survey Ireland. The 2017 EFGS Conference was successfully held in Dublin Castle from November 2-3...Read article
by Admin | Nov 6, 2017 | News
The European Commission published on 9 October 2017 the 7th Cohesion Report. It zooms in on EU regions and cities, draws lessons from cohesion spending during the crisis years and sets the scene for cohesion policy after 2020. Analysing the current state of the...Read article
by Admin | Nov 6, 2017 | News
Open data services of United States are available at EFGS webpage from now. More information you can find here: Open Data U.S.Read article
by Admin | Oct 19, 2017 | News
We would like to inform, that the program of the EFGS 2017 Conference is now available: EFGS 2017 Conference Program Please download the EFGS 2017 Program as a PDF Read article
by Admin | Sep 15, 2017 | News
Lars H. Backer Prize 2017 The Lars H. Backer Prize in memoriam of Lars H. Backer will be awarded for major contributions to the development of a geospatial foundation for official statistics or for significantly improving the relevance of geospatial statistics for...Read article
by Admin | Sep 1, 2017 | News
During Seventh session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), which was held in UN Headquarters, New York, 2-4 August 2017 the President of EFGS, Janusz Dygaszewicz presented an official statement on item 10...Read article
