GISCO Wrapper 🇪🇺

Welcome to the EXPERIMENTAL wrapper for Eurostat GISCO geodata (NUTS, LAU, countries and other European reference layers) as Linked Data, via the GISCO OGC API Features service.

We maintain a document with Frequently Asked Questions.

Services

• contains?lat=…&lon=… — point-in-region reverse geocoding across NUTS (levels 0–3) and LAU in one answer; for German points the LAU skos:notation is the AGS.
• search?q=… — name/code search across the NUTS and LAU classifications (level= and country= facets).
• cl/{0..3} and cl/{CC} — SKOS concept schemes: NUTS per level, LAU per country.
• lau/{GISCO_ID} — LAU municipality concepts (for Germany the id after DE_ is the 8-digit AGS).
• nuts/{CODE}.json — a region's boundary as a GeoJSON-LD Feature at GISCO's finest scale (1:1M); every GISCO scale has its own document: .01m.json, .03m.json, .10m.json, .20m.json, .60m.json (the RDF embeds 1:60M and links them all); LAU at 1:1M only: lau/{GISCO_ID}.json.
• geojson — bulk boundary feed (scheme=nuts|lau).
• intersects — the GISCO collections' features intersecting a bbox (OGC API Features proxy; GeoSPARQL sfIntersects); one feature by id: item?s=…&id={collection}/items/{fid}.
• sparql — SPARQL over feature documents via FROM clauses; routes — machine-readable interface manifest; vocab — wrapper vocabulary.

Examples

Which region is this point in?

Munich city centre (Turtle: .ttl, GeoJSON: .geojson, linkset of the regions' own documents: .json) — answers with DE ⊃ DE2 ⊃ DE21 ⊃ DE212 and the municipality München (AGS 09162000); Berlin · Paris · Amsterdam

Browse the NUTS hierarchy

Deutschland (DE) → Bayern (DE2) → Oberbayern (DE21) → München, Kreisfreie Stadt (DE212) — each with map, boundary, RDF (DE21.ttl) and its LAU municipalities

Municipalities (LAU)

München (DE_09162000) · Weismain (DE_09478176) · Amsterdam (NL_GM0363) — population, area, boundary widget, RDF (.ttl)

Search by name

Bamberg (NUTS district + LAU town in one answer) · Oberbayern · München, LAU only

Feature documents (live GISCO Features API)

NUTS regions around Munich (bbox) · Natura 2000 sites around Munich

NUTS Regions

Browse the NUTS hierarchy (with the EU-level GISCO services).