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Bulgaria is a black hole on this map although the regional Cadastre and Cardography agency does have the necessary data. A prime example of a public institutio

Bulgaria is a black hole on this map although the regional Cadastre and Cardography agency does have the necessary data. A prime example of a public institution leeching money for providing access to data that has been gathered entirely with public funds. For reference they sell access to raster visualisations of their data for EUR 40[1] per month. You don't even get the vector data so you can analyse it or incorporate it in a product. [1] https://www.cadastre.bg/podzakonovi-normatveni-aktove/tarifa-14-0 https://www.cadastre.bg/podzakonovi-normatveni-aktove/tarifa...

phoronixrly 5y ago
To add to that, the public institutions in BG are in possession of a 0.5-0.3m/px orthophoto and a DEM with a similar resolution derived from it. This was acquired between 2016 and 2020 and entirely paid for with eurofunds. You literally cannot get access to it, even if you want to pay let alone find it as an opendata dataset. Mind you, all military objects on it have been removed.
paganel 5y ago
Slightly related to this, do you happen to know more about this topographic map [1] of Bulgaria and its surroundings? [1] http://web.uni-plovdiv.bg/vedrin/#section2 http://web.uni-plovdiv.bg/vedrin/#section2 I was curious if it be possible to somehow integrate the data from there on a geo-referenced map, maybe there are some instructions on that page pertaining to that but unfortunately I do not know Bulgarian. I'm one of your neighbours from the North (I'm Romanian) and one of my side-projects involves geo-locating some toponyms that I find interesting (like toponyms indicating the names of some fortifications, for example, which would be gradishte in Bulgarian if I'm not mistaken). For the territory of Romania I managed to do that by integrating some Romanian military topographic maps with OpenLayers, I was thinking of extending my project to the entire Balkan area (that's why integrating those topographic maps of Bulgaria with something like OpenLayers or Leaflet would help me immensely).
- phoronixrly 5y ago
  > Slightly related to this, do you happen to know more about this topographic map [1] of Bulgaria and its surroundings? This is the first time I see this map. I will definitely look into it. The only official topo maps I know of are the ones produced in M1:5000 in the 50s to 70s and the M1:10000 produced in the 70s-80s. They're sold in a raster format by the sheet, so are completely useless to you. On the toponyms part though, there's the official registry of toponyms that is openly accessible but not open-data. You can download it in its entirety thereby breaking copyright law: https://geonames.cadastre.bg/ https://geonames.cadastre.bg/ Here's a preview of a search for "градище": https://i.imgur.com/7NPFoPz.png https://i.imgur.com/7NPFoPz.png Note the EU funds info box and annoyingly the copyright label below it.
  - paganel 5y ago
    > toponyms that is openly accessible but not open-data. Y Thank you a lot, that helps. > Here's a preview of a search for "градище":https://i.imgur.com/7NPFoPz.png https://i.imgur.com/7NPFoPz.png That helps even more, thank you again! I'm not doing this for any monetary gains and most probably the data/project will only be accessed by a handful of people really interested in this sort of stuff, so hopefully no-one will come after me :)

phoronixrly 5y ago

To add to that, the public institutions in BG are in possession of a 0.5-0.3m/px orthophoto and a DEM with a similar resolution derived from it. This was acquired between 2016 and 2020 and entirely paid for with eurofunds. You literally cannot get access to it, even if you want to pay let alone find it as an opendata dataset. Mind you, all military objects on it have been removed.

paganel 5y ago

Slightly related to this, do you happen to know more about this topographic map [1] of Bulgaria and its surroundings? [1] http://web.uni-plovdiv.bg/vedrin/#section2 http://web.uni-plovdiv.bg/vedrin/#section2 I was curious if it be possible to somehow integrate the data from there on a geo-referenced map, maybe there are some instructions on that page pertaining to that but unfortunately I do not know Bulgarian. I'm one of your neighbours from the North (I'm Romanian) and one of my side-projects involves geo-locating some toponyms that I find interesting (like toponyms indicating the names of some fortifications, for example, which would be gradishte in Bulgarian if I'm not mistaken). For the territory of Romania I managed to do that by integrating some Romanian military topographic maps with OpenLayers, I was thinking of extending my project to the entire Balkan area (that's why integrating those topographic maps of Bulgaria with something like OpenLayers or Leaflet would help me immensely).

phoronixrly 5y ago
> Slightly related to this, do you happen to know more about this topographic map [1] of Bulgaria and its surroundings? This is the first time I see this map. I will definitely look into it. The only official topo maps I know of are the ones produced in M1:5000 in the 50s to 70s and the M1:10000 produced in the 70s-80s. They're sold in a raster format by the sheet, so are completely useless to you. On the toponyms part though, there's the official registry of toponyms that is openly accessible but not open-data. You can download it in its entirety thereby breaking copyright law: https://geonames.cadastre.bg/ https://geonames.cadastre.bg/ Here's a preview of a search for "градище": https://i.imgur.com/7NPFoPz.png https://i.imgur.com/7NPFoPz.png Note the EU funds info box and annoyingly the copyright label below it.
- paganel 5y ago
  > toponyms that is openly accessible but not open-data. Y Thank you a lot, that helps. > Here's a preview of a search for "градище":https://i.imgur.com/7NPFoPz.png https://i.imgur.com/7NPFoPz.png That helps even more, thank you again! I'm not doing this for any monetary gains and most probably the data/project will only be accessed by a handful of people really interested in this sort of stuff, so hopefully no-one will come after me :)