Corine Land Cover

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 ().

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 The data might be very outdated for your country, or require lots of conflation work, and the community will want to see your concept for that.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:

• 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 and landuse=industrial
1.1.2	Discontinuous urban fabric	landuse=residential, landuse=commercial, landuse=retail and landuse=industrial
1.2	Industrial, commercial and transport units
1.2.1	Industrial or commercial units	landuse=industrial, landuse=commercial, or landuse=retail
1.2.2	Road and rail networks and associated land	landuse=railway for railway areas only. This class is a mix of road and rail landuse; landuse=highway is not commonly used.
1.2.3	Port areas	landuse=industrial + industrial=port or 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, and other tags
1.4.2	Sport and leisure facilities	See leisure=* for the many possibilities.
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 and landuse=farmyard for specific areas.
2.4.3	Land principally occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation	No single tag, consider landuse=farmland, landuse=meadow, landuse=orchard and landuse=farmyard for specific agricultural areas, plus natural=wood, natural=scrub, etc. for natural areas.
2.4.4	Agro-forestry areas	landuse=forest, landuse=meadow, landuse=farmland or a combination - requires survey.
3	Forest and seminatural areas
3.1	Forests
3.1.1	Broad-leaved forest	landuse=forest or natural=wood + leaf_type=broadleaved
3.1.2	Coniferous forest	landuse=forest or natural=wood + leaf_type=needleleaved
3.1.3	Mixed forest	landuse=forest or 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 or natural=scrub + leaf_type=mixed
3.3	Open spaces with little or no vegetation
3.3.1	Beaches, dunes, sands	natural=beach or natural=sand
3.3.2	Bare rocks	natural=rock, natural=scree or 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, etc.
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 (See Proposed features/Salt Pond )
4.2.3	Intertidal flats	wetland=tidalflat or tidal=yes (See 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 - also see natural=coastline
5.2.2	Estuaries	No compatible tag found
5.2.3	Sea and ocean	See natural=coastline

See also

• WikiProject Corine Land Cover (projects for various European countries to import the data)
• Corine Data Import (code to support the import)

External links

• CORINE Land Cover, European Environment Agency
• CLC2006 european website (doesn't work)

France

• Corine Land Cover France (on Google map).
• Corine Land Cover (French Wikipedia)
• Occupation des sols - CORINE Land Cover (Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement Durable et de l'Énergie)