On September 18th the partners of the Working Group on Land Registry and Mapping of the Greater Region with the support of the EGTC Secrétariat du Sommet de la Grande Région / Gipfelsekretariat der Großregion gathered in Esch-sur-Alzette in the House of the Greater Region to launch the B-Solutions project GeoConnectGR.

GeoConnectGR aims at harmonising geographic hydrographic data across regional and national limits of the cooperation space of the Greater Region. This will enable the Greater Region's Geographic Information System (GIS-GR) to cross-reference hydrographic data with other data on specific cross-border topics and thereby support cross-border territorial observation and decision-making.

This first meeting led to a deep technical discussion on different approaches of data harmonisation. In particular, Sonja WERHAHN from the CRD Production team at BKG (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie) presented a very inspiring prototype of a core reference dataset at master level of detail for Europe. These different approaches will be fully assessed in order to identify the more practicable one until the next meeting.

The European Union finances this project.