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Estonia
Player Type Sectors Products Turnover Staff
Estonian Land Board Gov Dept CG, LG, Env, Estonian Basic 5.2 Mill 234 (2003)
Ministry of
Map,
(2001)
Environment
Estonian
National
Topographic
Database
Cadastral
Information
System
Estonian Soil
Map
Estonian Map Centre 100% state CG, LG, Env Producer of
22 (2003)
owned
Estonian Base
Map and Basic
Map;
Digital
orthophotos
1:2000 and 1:10
000;
Photogrammetry
Regio Ltd PLC Tel, Ems, Database of 1.5 Mill 60 (2003)
Tra,Uti, Prop, Urban Areas (2000)
LG
1:5000;
Con
Estonian
Database 1:50
000;
Address Points;
Estonian
Census Map;
Public map
servers;
Road Atlas of
Estonia;
Location-based
services;
E.O.Map Ltd PLC CG, LG, Env Road atlas of
Estonia
2002/2003
Map of Estonia
Web Maps
vector & raster
data
71 (2003)
The Estonian Land Board (ELB) (www.maaamet.ee) was established in 1990 for the implementation
of the land policy of the Government of Estonia. It is responsible to the Minister of Environment for the
maintenance of the Land Cadastre, co-ordination and the execution of land reform, organisation and
co-ordination of the activities in the field of land consolidation, land assessment, geodesy,
cartography, and GI. The Land Board also manages contracts for cadastral and geodetic surveys, and
for topographic mapping. The Board has 234 staff, of which 70 are in the Board's Tallinn headquarters
and the remainder divided between 15 County cadastral offices. The activities of the Board are
financed 100% from the state budget; all revenue earned by the Board goes back to the state budget.
The total budget for 2001 is equivalent to 5.2 Mill. In terms of wider European activity ELB is active
on a number of fronts. Bilaterally ELB is involved mainly in the field of cartography, GIS and geodesy
with the National Land Survey of Finland (http://www.nls.fi), the Finnish Geodetic Institute
(http://www.fgi.fi), and the National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark (http://www.kms.dk) for the
establishment of Estonian geodetic database. On a regional basis ELB, working within the framework
of the Baltic Council of Ministers, is involved with the MapBSR (http://www.mapbsr.nls.fi) digital map of
the Baltic Sea Region project, and co-operation in the field of real estate valuation. Wider still, in terms
of pan-European activity, ELB is a member of EuroGeographics (http://www.eurogeographics.org) and
is participating in the EuroGeographics SABE and EuroGlobalMap projects. Within EuroGeographics’
EuroGlobalMap project ELB is the Baltic Region Sub-regional Coordinator. The ELB has also been a
partner in several EU PHARE projects, the aims of which have been the acceleration of the land
reform process and setting up a cadastral and land information system.
The Estonian Map Centre (www.ekk.ee) was established in 1993 for the implementation of state
operated contract work in the field of geodesy and cartography for government institutions and
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