National mapping agency

A national mapping agency (NMA) is an organisation, usually publicly owned, that produces topographic maps and geographic information of a country. Some national mapping agencies also deal with cadastral matters.

According to 2007/2/EC European directive, national mapping agencies of European Union countries must have publicly available services for searching, viewing and downloading their spatial data.^[1] Maps produced by some of them are available under a free license that allows re-use, such as a Creative Commons license.^[2]

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^ "Spanish IGN products license (in Spanish)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-05-06. Retrieved 2022-08-03.

[1] "L_2007108EN.01000101.xml". 2022-01-19. Archived from the original on 2022-01-19. Retrieved 2022-08-03.

[2] "Spanish IGN products license (in Spanish)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-05-06. Retrieved 2022-08-03.

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