One Europe, one framework for geospatial data

CARTO is participating in an 18-month European Commission DG DEFIS study, launched in Brussels in September 2026, to assess how core geospatial data is governed, produced, licensed, and shared across all 27 EU Member States and to develop options for a common policy framework. Led by Evenflow with ConsultingWhere, CARTO, and BHO Legal, and supported by organizations including the Open Geospatial Consortium and EuroGeographics, the project will consult data providers and users while examining how authoritative national, local, commercial, and EU space data can be integrated. CARTO leads the technology-focused option and will build an open-source, platform-independent demonstrator showing potential uses of integrated national geospatial and EU space data. Its proposed approach emphasizes AI-ready data with clear metadata and traceability, data sovereignty through federated stewardship, scalable cloud-native access, and interoperability through open standards, compatible formats, shared definitions, and transparent access rights.

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