Governments across Europe have long relied on GIS to steer decisions on infrastructure, the environment and citizens' well-being. But acquiring, creating and maintaining that data at national scale has always strained budgets and timelines.
A more scalable path
Advances in both technology and in how public administrations approach GIS have opened the door to more accessible, reliable geospatial analytics — and EU funding programmes provide the means to build and maintain national-scale datasets.
Lessons from the field
In a recent webinar, a former president of EuroGeographics and a senior geographic-information expert from an EU member state joined our team to discuss real public-sector case studies. The conversation kept returning to one point: high-precision geospatial data is critical to understanding climate vulnerability and to planning, funding and building resilience across both natural and built environments. AI-driven extraction is what finally makes producing and refreshing that data at national scale practical.
