Introduction
The Corine Land Cover (Coordination of Information on the Environment Land Cover, CLC) is referring to a European programme establishing a computerised inventory on land cover of the 27 EC member states and other European countries, at an original scale of 1: 100 000, using 44 classes of the 3-level Corine nomenclature.
It is produced by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its member countries and is based on the results of IMAGE2000, a satellite imaging programme undertaken jointly by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and the EEA ([ 1]
The specific terms of use page redirects to the general license page which allows commercial reuse. The download page, Corine Land Cover 2000 seamless vector data - version 13 (02/2010) says: "EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright ). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency. "
While this means that, legally, it can be imported into OpenStreetMap, the Import Guidelines still apply to individual imports, i.e. you must not simply go ahead and import the data without first discussing with the community. The data might be very outdated for your country, or require lots of conflation work, and the community will want to see your concept for that.
Technical parameters of Corine Land Cover
Technical parameters of Corine Land Cover:[ 2]
CLC mapping scale is 1:100.000
minimum mapping unit (MMU) is 25 hectares
minimum width of linear elements is 100 metres
MMUS for Land Cover Changes (LCC) since 2000 is 5 hectares.
38 countries with a total area of 5.8 Mkm2 participate
the standard CLC nomenclature includes 44 land cover classes, grouped in a three-level hierarchy. Five main categories are "artificial surfaces", "agricultural areas", "forest and semi-natural areas", "wetlands", "water bodies"
Tagging
The following table details the suggested tag conversion during import. The WikiProject Corine Land Cover/Corine Data Import page gives details of suitable code to do so.
Code
Description
Comment
1
Artificial surfaces
1.1
Urban fabric
1.1.1
Continuous urban fabric
landuse residential landuse commercial landuse retail landuse industrial
1.1.2
Discontinuous urban fabric
landuse residential landuse commercial landuse retail landuse industrial
1.2
Industrial, commercial and transport units
1.2.1
Industrial or commercial units
landuse industrial landuse commercial landuse retail
1.2.2
Road and rail networks and associated land
landuse railway
1.2.3
Port areas
landuse industrial industrial port leisure marina
1.2.4
Airports
aeroway aerodrome
1.3
Mine, dump and construction sites
1.3.1
Mineral extraction sites
landuse quarry
1.3.2
Dump sites
landuse landfill
1.3.3
Construction sites
landuse construction
1.4
Artificial, non-agricultural vegetated areas
1.4.1
Green urban areas
Several tags are possible: leisure park leisure garden leisure pitch leisure golf_course landuse grass natural wood
1.4.2
Sport and leisure facilities
See leisure
2
Agricultural areas
2.1
Arable land
2.1.1
Non-irrigated arable land
landuse farmland
2.1.2
Permanently irrigated land
landuse farmland
2.1.3
Rice fields
landuse farmland crop rice
2.2
Permanent crops
2.2.1
Vineyards
landuse vineyard
2.2.2
Fruit trees and berry plantations
landuse orchard
2.2.3
Olive groves
landuse orchard trees olive_trees
2.3
Pastures
2.3.1
Pastures
landuse meadow
2.4
Heterogeneous agricultural areas
2.4.1
Annual crops associated with permanent crops
Usually but not always landuse farmland
2.4.2
Complex cultivation patterns
No single tag, consider landuse farmland landuse meadow landuse orchard landuse farmyard
2.4.3
Land principally occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation
No single tag, consider landuse farmland landuse meadow landuse orchard landuse farmyard natural wood natural scrub
2.4.4
Agro-forestry areas
landuse forest landuse meadow landuse farmland
3
Forest and seminatural areas
3.1
Forests
3.1.1
Broad-leaved forest
landuse forest natural wood leaf_type broadleaved
3.1.2
Coniferous forest
landuse forest natural wood leaf_type needleleaved
3.1.3
Mixed forest
landuse forest natural wood leaf_type mixed
3.2
Scrub and/or herbaceous vegetation associations
3.2.1
Natural grasslands
natural grassland
3.2.2
Moors and heathland
natural heath
3.2.3
Sclerophyllous vegetation
natural scrub
3.2.4
Transitional woodland-shrub
natural wood natural scrub leaf_type mixed
3.3
Open spaces with little or no vegetation
3.3.1
Beaches, dunes, sands
natural beach natural sand
3.3.2
Bare rocks
natural rock natural scree natural shingle
3.3.3
Sparsely vegetated areas
Depending on main features, see natural scrub natural heath natural grassland natural bare_rock natural sand natural scree
3.3.4
Burnt areas
N/A - not permanent.
3.3.5
Glaciers and perpetual snow
natural glacier
4
Wetlands
4.1
Inland wetlands
4.1.1
Inland marshes
natural wetland wetland marsh
4.1.2
Peat bogs
natural wetland wetland bog
4.2
Maritime wetlands
4.2.1
Salt marshes
natural wetland wetland saltmarsh
4.2.2
Salines
landuse salt_pond Proposed features/Salt Pond )
4.2.3
Intertidal flats
wetland tidalflat tidal yes Proposed_features/Water_cover )
5
Water bodies
5.1
Inland waters
5.1.1
Water courses
waterway riverbank
5.1.2
Water bodies
natural water water lake
5.2
Marine waters
5.2.1
Coastal lagoons
natural water water lagoon natural coastline
5.2.2
Estuaries
No compatible tag found
5.2.3
Sea and ocean
See natural coastline
See also
References
External links
France