This message is from Jan Smits. It was delayed at UGA by being posted to the wrong file.----------------------Johnnie --------------------------------------------- Mon, 21 Feb 1994 19:26:51 +0100 [log in to unmask] CERCO (A) CERCO consisted in September 1993 of the directors of 31 national mapping agencies of western and central Europe (European Union, Efta and former eastern-bloc countries). 17 of them signed on 15 June 1993 a Memorandum of Understanding in Helsinki to develop the following: - a directory containing information about all the geographic data available in Europe - a database containing the boundaries of all administrative areas (down to ward or commune level or equivalent) in Europe - specifications for future common geographical information sources You can contact them through any of its directors, e.g. Ordnance Survey, Institut Geographique National (Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal), Institut fur Angewnadte Geodaesie (Germany) etc. Jan Smits Mapcurator Royal Library, The National Library of The Netherlands [log in to unmask] (X400 gateway)