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Where can I get a shapefile of Europe?
The Eurostat website only seems to have a shapefile of the region with country boundaries that also includes the NUTS divisions. Natural Earth shapefiles only seem to be available for the entire world, not for regions like Europe. You can download the “official” EU administrative/statistical units from Eurostat’s GISCO service.
Are there different types of shapefiles for different areas?
Separate shapefiles for points, places, waterways, roads, railways, landuse and buildings with relevant tags, then shapefiles with all points, lines and polygons together. BBBike.org extract service offers shapefiles for an area of your choosing, updated weekly.
Which is the best service for exporting shapefiles?
OSMaxx extract service, export to Shapefile (and GeoPackage etc.) based on bounding box for whole world with data about a day old. Boundaries Map offers worldwide shapefiles of all administrative boundaries. Database will be updated at midnight, German time.
Which is the shapefile of European Union regions?
For data sets and services, that provide access to such data sets, for the European Union (EU) you should look at the INSPIRE GeoPortal EuroGlobalMap is a 1:1 million scale topographic dataset covering 45 countries and territories in the European region. Thanks for contributing an answer to Open Data Stack Exchange!
How does the OECD calculate urban areas by country?
The OECD’s Functional urban areas by country has shapefiles of urban areas by country with the population living within those areas. They have data for France, Belgium, and Germany. The population data appears to be from 2015. They have summary reports for each country and use 4 sub-classes of urban areas.
Where can I find urban morphological zone data?
The European Environmental Agency provides a Urban morphological zones, which gives polygons of urban areas across Europe defined by Corine land. You can download the data here
Where can I find geographic data in Europe?
Geographic data downloadable as GeoJSON or Esri shapefile. Catalog of spatial data for Auvergne. In French. Shapefiles and maps from Brittany, downloadable from Catalog. In French. Open data catalog for all of Germany, contains some spatial data.
Is there a way to clip Earth country shapefiles?
The best option that I found is clipping the natural earth country shapefiles to the boundaries of Europe and exclude Russia if you do not want that bit. Note that Crimea is no longer in Ukraine in the country shapefiles.
Is there a map of Europe using Esri ArcGIS?
This is the kind of map I am looking to populate with my own data using ESRI ArcGIS: The Eurostat website only seems to have a shapefile of the region with country boundaries that also includes the NUTS divisions. Natural Earth shapefiles only seem to be available for the entire world, not for regions like Europe.
How to get country level shapefile from Esri?
The vector layers are available as ESRI Shapefiles and Personal GDBs, at different resolutions from here. Note, in order to extract the country level polygons as below, you will need to extract all features based on the following query STAT_LEVL_ = 1 from the Shapefile NUTS_RS_01M_2013.shp.
How are regions used in the SDG report?
For the purpose of presentation, some of the M49 regions have been combined. The use of geographic regions as the basis for country groupings is a major change from The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2016 and the progress reports on the Millennium Development Goals.
Is there a free point city shapefile?
I am looking for a simple point shapefile which indicates where the cities of the world are. I cannot seem to find one which is free of charge and meets my requirements. Ive got this one: http://techcenter.jefferson.kctcs.edu/data/ but I want smaller cities too…