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Map of the Czech Republic 1: 500,000 - colour seamless

The Map of the Czech Republic 1: 500,000 is provided as a raster file in TIFF format, supplemented by TFW location files for S-JTSK and ETRS89-TM33N coordinate systems. It is supplied with georeferencing files for S-JTSK and WGS84/UTM datums. It contains following features: boundaries, forests, planimetry, road fills, map lettering, hydrography, railways and hill shading.



Data identification

Citation
Source name: Map of the Czech Republic 1: 500,000 - colour seamless
Alternative name: MČR 500 - colour seamless
Reference datum
Reference date: 2023-12-31
Event: revision
Data identifier
Unique identifier: https://cuzk.cz/CZ-00025712-CUZK_MCR500
Unique identifier: 63181
Contact to the organisation responsible for the data
Person name: Jindrák, Přemysl, Ing.
Name of the organisation: Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre
Responsible organisation information
Contact phone
Phone: +420 284 047 425
Fax: +420 284 041 416
Address
Delivery place: Pod sídlištěm 1800/9
City: Praha 8
ZIP code: 182 11
Country: Czech Republic
Online source
Contact hours: Mo-Fr 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CET
Supplementary information:
Role: custodian
Other information:
Abstract: The Map of the Czech Republic 1: 500,000 is provided as a raster file in TIFF format, supplemented by TFW location files for S-JTSK and ETRS89-TM33N coordinate systems. It is supplied with georeferencing files for S-JTSK and WGS84/UTM datums. It contains following features: boundaries, forests, planimetry, road fills, map lettering, hydrography, railways and hill shading.
Purpose: MČR 500 is conceived as an overview general geographic map. It displays the whole territory of the Czech Republic in one map sheet. It is exploited, among others, as a navigation layer in web map applications.
Responsible organisation
Person name: Jindrák, Přemysl, Ing.
Name of the organisation: Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre
Responsible organisation information
Contact phone
Phone: +420 284 047 425
Fax: +420 284 041 416
Address
Delivery place: Pod sídlištěm 1800/9
City: Praha 8
ZIP code: 182 11
Country: Czech Republic
Online source
Contact hours: Mo-Fr 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CET
Supplementary information:
Role: custodian
Maintenance info
Maintenance and update frequency: asNeeded
Date of planned source revision:
Maintenance note: The last edition of this map is from 2023.
Keywords
Keyword: Hydrography
Officially registered thesaurus
Reference datum
Reference date: 2008-06-01
Event: publication
Organisation responsible for the thesaurus:
Name of the organisation: Joint Research Centre
Role: pointOfContact
Keywords
Keyword: map lettering
Keyword: raster map
Keyword: hydrography
Officially registered thesaurus
Reference datum
Reference date: 2009-01-01
Event: publication
Organisation responsible for the thesaurus:
Name of the organisation: Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre
Role: pointOfContact
Keywords
Keyword: map of the Czech Republic
Keyword: map of the Czech Republic
Keyword: map of the territories
Keyword: scale 1:500,000
Keyword: scale 1:500000
Keyword: 500000
Keyword: 500,000
Officially registered thesaurus
Reference datumOrganisation responsible for the thesaurus:
Role:
Source restriction
Access and use terms: No charges
Data registered in the National Open Data Catalogue: Yes
Type of spatial representation: grid
Spatial resolution
Correspondent scale
Scale factor: 500000
Source language: cze
Character set: utf8
Thematic category: location
Thematic category: transportation
Thematic category: inlandWaters
Thematic category: boundaries
Data extension
Extent information: 100 % of the Czech Republic territory, i.e. 78,866 km2.
Geographic limitations
Minimal bounding box
Westernmost coordinate: 12.09
Easternmost coordinate: 18.86
Southernmost coordinate: 48.55
Northernmost coordinate: 51.06
Time extent 2018 - unknown
Altitude extension
Minimal value: 115.0
Maximal value: 1602.0

Reference system (horizontal, vertical or temporal)

Coordinate reference system identifier
Reference system citation
Source name: S-JTSK / Krovak East North
Alternative name: S-JTSK / Krovak EN
Reference date
Reference date: 2011-05-09
Event: revision
Other information: EPSG code 5514 S-JTSK / Krovak East North is an equivalent to the existing ESRI code 102067. The projection keeps the mathematic so called "east-north" orientation of coordinate axis where the X axis has positive values eastwards and Y axis northwards. This projection is suitable for exploitation in GIS applications. The projection is related to the Greenwich Prime Meridian (contrary to the EPSG 5221 S-JTSK (Ferro) / Krovak East North where the Prime Meridian is Ferro).
Coordinate reference system identifier
Reference system citation
Source name: ETRS89 / UTM zone 33N (N-E)
Alternative name: ETRS89-TM33N
Reference date
Reference date: 2012-11-26
Event: revision
Other information: The coordinate system ETRS89 / TM33 determined for INSPIRE to display INSPIRE datasets of large scales.

Distribution

Distribution formate
Name: TIFF
Version:
Distributor
Contact information:
Name of the organisation: Land Survey Office
Responsible organisation information
Contact phone
Phone: +420 284 041 605
Phone: +420 284 041 111
Fax: +420 284 041 416
Address
Delivery place: Pod sídlištěm 1800/9
City: Praha 8
ZIP code: 182 11
Country: Czech Republic
Online source
Contact hours: Mo-Fr 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM CET
Supplementary information:
Role: distributor

Data quality

Level of scope
Quality description level: series
Report - INSPIRE compliance
Test identifier: CZ-00025712-CUZK_MCR500-DQ_DomainConsistency-1
Conformity
Specification
Alternative name: DIRECTIVE 2007/2/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)
Reference date
Reference date: 2007-04-26
Event: publication
Test description: Data set series conformity testing with INSPIRE implementing rules for spatial data sets and services interoperability.
Degree of conformity: false
Report – completness – omission
Measure name: Evaluation of completeness of Czech Republic territory coverage by the data set series
Measure identification: CZ-00025712-CUZK_MCR500-DQ_CompletenessOmission-1
Measure description: Evaluation of completeness of Czech Republic territory coverage by the MCR 500 data set series.
Date and time of the measure: 2014-03-12T12:00:00
Test result – quantitative
Value domain: %
Value: 100
Data origin
Data origin information: Colour seamless MČR 500 was created by digital rasterisation of a composite print PDF. Since 2007 the Map of the Czech Republic 1: 500,000 is processed by digital technology with exploitation of Fundamental Base of Geographical Data of the Czech Republic (ZABAGED), database of geographical names of the Czech Republic – Geonames and EuroRegionalMap (ERM) data. Production and update of the Map of the Czech Republic 1: 500,000 is ensured by Land Survey Office.