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4- Eurogeonames european infrastructure of geographical names
EuroGeoNames (EGN) is a system of European geographical names infra-
structure (EDINA 2007). It was developed through the eContentPlus pro-
ject funded by the European Union (EU). The project was developed by a
consortium led by the German Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie
(BKG) (Zaccheddu and Afflerbach 2008). Today is EuroGeoNames sys-
tem under the EuroGraphics jurisdiction and BKG is operationally respon-
sible for the maintenance and development. EuroGeoNames system is a
part of INSPIRE development trough European Spatial Data Infrastructure
(ESDIN) project. It is realization of the INSPIRE Directive. European Spa-
tial Data Infrastructure (ESDIN) is based on the National Spatial Data
Infrastructures in the member states. It is EU eContentPlus project that has
mission to harmonize and maintain pan-European data for some of the
INSPIRE Annex I themes: coordinate reference systems, administrative
units, transport networks, cadastral parcels, hydrography and geographical
names.
EGN is providing harmonized access to a multilingual pan-European data
infrastructure for the citizen, governance and value-added services. It sup-
ports all officially recognized minority languages.
EuroGeoNames and INSPIRE are treating geographical names in well
structured way. It is treating geographical names as separate data set in
context with other INSPIRE data sets. INSPIRE is defining geographical
names in the context of EU Regulations and ISO specification. EuroGeo-
Names is defining conceptual model on the level of object oriented seman-
tics (UML schema). It is way of developing data in the INSPIRE system.
In the EGN system is included thirteen countries (see Fig. 2 ) . Croatia was
not part of eContentPlus EU project that developed EuroGeoNames
( Ormeling 2009 ). During development of Croatian part of EGN,
assistance was given from developers. Croatian Geodetic Institute has
developed Croatian national EGN system and incorporated the Croatia in
to the EuroGeoNames system. EuroGeoNames web service can be called
from website http://www.eurogeonames.com/refappl (Knibbe 2009).
Croatian interface should be called by selecting the language at the top
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