- EGRN (Geographical Equipment of National Reference), frees and without restrictions although it is necessary to mention to the National Geographical Institute like owner of the information:
- coordinates of geodesic apexes of I GNAWED (Network of Low Order) in format PDF.
- cartographic grids (limits of the maps) of the series MTN25 and MTN50 (shapefile).
- lines limit of the Spanish municipalities (shapefile).
- Other materials with license of not commercial use:
- ortoimágenes of the PNOA (National Plan of Ortofotografía Aérea) in format ECW.
- maps escaneadosde the series MTN25, MTN50 and BCN200 in format TIF.
- the geodesic apexes are in format PDF: why not in a spreadsheet or, simply, in a text file to facilitate his use?
- the scanned maps MTN25 and MTN50 are recounted to the datum ED50 (ancient) and the ortoimágenes to the sheets MTN50 in the official datum ETRS89, with what they turn out to be incompatible. It is true that the series MTN were done when the ED50 was the official datum but, after three years from the Decree of the change, he was thinking that they might have transformed the ETRS89 and to give this way updated and useful information 100 %.
- the lines limit of municipality are that, lines, not polygons. The information about the name of the municipalities or his codes of catalog of names is integrated in a somewhat exotic way: as attributes of the lines. This information, regrettably, is not easily recoverable at the time of processing the lines to restore the polygons topology (that is his).
A possible process to assign attributes to the municipalities is to use the lines given here, to create the polygons topology and to "absorb" the information of an existing similar layer in Global Administrative Areas, something worse in the tracing of the lines but with attributes assigned to the municipalities.
To finish, a question to the respectable one on the use licenses. The first one seems equivalent to Creative Commons Attribution and the second one to CC Attribution - Odd number commercial. Am I mistaken and there is some difference that escapes from me? I ask about it because I would like seeing these icons increasingly on the pages of the Administration.
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