Geographical names(e.g. areas, regions, localities, cities,
suburbs, towns and settlements, and geographical or topographical
features)
Administrative units(areas for local, regional and national
boundaries and administrative areas)
Addresses(including road name, house number, postcode)
Cadastral parcels(i.e. registered land properties)
Transport networks(road, rail, air and water networks and
related infrastructure and the links between these networks)
Hydrography(marine areas, river basins and sub-basins, rivers,
coastline. lakes etc)
Protected sites(areas designated by international, European
Community, and national legislation aimed at achieving conservation
objectives, e.g. national monuments, Special Areas of Conservation
etc)
13. Annex 2
Elevation(digital elevation models for land, ice and ocean
surfaces, bathymetry and shoreline)
Land cover(physical and biological surfaces, including
artificial surfaces, agricultural areas, forests, (semi-) natural
areas, wetlands, water bodies)
Orthoimagery(geo-referenced image data of the earths surface
from satellites and airborne sensors)
Geology(characterised according to composition and structure,
including bedrock, aquifers and geomorphology)
14. Annex 3
Statistical units(geographic units for dissemination or use of
statistical information, e.g. Enumeration Districts used by the
ONS)
Buildings(and their geographic location)
Soil(soils and subsoils characterised according to depth,
texture, structure and content of particles and organic matter,
stoniness, erosion, where appropriate average slope and water
storage capacity)
Land use(current and future zoned use e.g. residential,
industrial, etc)
Human health and safety(distribution of pathologies (e.g.
cancers, respiratory disease), information indicating the effect on
health (e.g. epidemics) or well being of people (e.g. fatigue,
stress) linked directly (e.g. air pollution, noise) or indirectly
(e.g. genetically modified organisms) to the quality of the
environment
Utility and government services(sewerage, waste management,
energy supply, water supply, administrative and social government
services (e.g. public administrations, civil protection sites,
schools, hospitals etc)
Environmental monitoring facilities(location and operation of
facilities monitoring such things as emissions, ecosystems
(biodiversity, ecological conditions of vegetation etc)
Production and industrial facilities(factories, installations
covered by pollution prevention and control legislation, water
abstraction facilities, mining, storage sites)
Agriculture and aquaculture facilities(farming equipment and
production facilities, including irrigation systems, greenhouses,
and stables)
Population distribution demography(geographical distribution of
people, including population characteristics and activity
levels)
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting
units(areas managed, regulated or used for reporting at
international, European, national, regional and local levels (e.g.
areas for dumping of waste, prospecting and mining permit areas,
river basin districts, coastal zone management areas)
Natural risk zones(vulnerable areas such as flooding and
landslide areas, areas of subsidence, forest fires etc)
Atmospheric conditions(physical conditions in the atmosphere
based on measurement or on models)
Meteorological geographical features(weather conditions and
their measurements (e.g. precipitation, temperature,
evapotranspiration, wind speed and direction))
Oceanographic geographical features(physical conditions of
oceans, e.g. currents, salinity, wave heights)
Sea regions(physical conditions of seas and saline water bodies
divided up into regions and sub-regions with common
characteristics)
Bio-geographical regions(areas of relatively homogenous
ecological conditions and common characteristics)
Habitats and biotopes(areas characterised by specific
ecological conditions, processes, structures and life support
functions.
Species distribution(areas of occurrence of animal and plant
species)
Energy resources(e.g. hydrocarbons, hydropower, bio-energy,
solar, wind etc, including where relevant depth/height information
on the extent of the resources)
Mineral resources(including metal ores, industrial materials
etc including where relevant depth/height information on the extent
of the resource)
