Frequently asked questions
You can also refer to the manual which is available in English and German. If there are still any problems or questions remaining, please use the contact form.
CentropeMAP is a geoportal for the Centrope region. It combines web map services (WMS) from all Centrope member regions in one single map viewer. With CentropeSTATISTICS you have access to a lot of statistical data on municipality level in the Centrope region. CentropeSTATISTICS lets you visualise these data directly in CentropeMAP as overlay, or create charts with a few mouse clicks.
Centrope is located in the border area between Austria, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, and Hungary. It consists of the states/counties Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland (Austria), Jihocesky, Jihomoravsky (Czech Republic), Bratislavsky, Trnavsky (Slovak Republic), Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Vas (Hungary).
We are dependent on official web map services (WMS) from each partner country. Due to historical and legal circumstances not every dataset is accessible in each country. Therefore, some datasets are restricted to parts of the Centrope region.
We are dependent on official web map services (WMS) from each partner country. Due to historical and technical circumstances each office is running own stylesheets according to national guidelines. Therefore, map legends may change at the national boundaries. CentropeMAP cannot access these stylesheets or overrule them with own stylesheets or styled layer descriptors (SLD) because these options have not been activated by the WMS hosting offices.
We regularly check all available data layers. Most services are directly obtained from different servers in the partner countries. Therefore, it may happen from time to time that single layers do not work or create a timeout error. Usually, this is fixed within short time as it is caused on the remote side form CentropeMAP’s point of view. So there is no need to report a broken layer. If you nevertheless want to tell us, please use the contact form on our website.
The transparency buttons on the left side (within the menu area) are only intended for use with a thematic map created in CentropeSTATISTICS. The transparency settings for all other layers have to be applied through the layer tree – click on a menu icon next to the green folder names in the layer tree and move the slider from the default value 100 to the left.
Yes, although it won’t always make sense.
You can export the current map view to a PDF file. Click the “PDF Export” button on the right top of your screen and follow the instructions. You will then be able to download a PDF file with the current map view including the map legend on a second page.
On the left side of your CentropeMAP screen there is a green menu item labelled “MAP LEGEND”. Click here to open the map legend in a new window. You can also click of “(PDF)” to create a printable PDF version of the map legend.
A scale display (which also serves as selection box) is located at the right bottom of your screen. Please note that this value is only a calculational approximation as the real map scale is also depending on the size and resolution of your screen, which is, of course, unknown to the map server.
On the left side of your CentropeMAP screen there is a menu item labelled “MAP DATA”. Click here to see additional information on the map layers. All layers marked in green colour are loaded directly from the partner servers across the Centrope region and therefore always embedded in their latest version.
If a partner server has a web map service (WMS) for a larger area than Centrope, we do not cut the layer at the Centrope region’s borders because there is no sense in hiding available information.
No, this is not supported by CentropeMAP. However, you can use the CentropeMAP WMS in your desktop GIS together with any other map layer of your choice.
CentropeMAP is INSPIRE-ready and will add INSPIRE datasets as soon as availability is guaranteed for the whole region.
We are only using the pure web map service (WMS) layers. CentropeMAP neither has additional feature info nor web feature services (WFS).
Of course you may. But we cannot guarantee that the output you are going to create with CentropeSTATISTICS is meaningful.
Yes, but please don’t forget to write down the data source like “Map source: CentropeMAP, www.centropemap.org” or “Data source: CentropeSTATISTICS, www.centropemap.org”.
The use of CentropeSTATISTICS datasets is absolutely free of charge.
All our datasets are coming from the official statistical offices of Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, and Austria, and from the European Statistical Office Eurostat. Third party datasets cannot be taken into account, we won’t publish them here. But you can use your own data with CentropeSTATISTICS for your own purposes in a custom table (see CentropeSTATISTICS manual for details).
The map will be created as usual. Data will be displayed in all parts of the region where available. The other parts, which have no data, won’t be covered with thematic content.
All charts are image files. To save them on your computer, click on the chart with the right mouse button and select “Save As ...”. Then you will be prompted to save the file to your computer.
Simple copy (CTRL+C) and paste (CTRL+V) won’t work because these maps consist of multiple overlayed images. You can either make a screenshot (press the Print button on the keyboard to get the cuurent monitor image into your clipboard) or use the PDF export tool.
All charts are image files. To use them in another application, right click on the chart and select “Save As ...”. Then embed the saved file in any other application.
The map is created in the map window which is covered by the statistics window during the phase of map creation. Former browser versions could automatically change to the map window. Modern browsers, for whatever reason, don’t have this capability any more, so if you want to see the map in the map window, you have to switch to the CentropeMAP main window or tab manually. Creating symbol maps may take some time, so there probably won’t be any additional thematic content in the map window when you are switching to the map window or tab – in this case please wait just a few more seconds.
Try to decrease the font size or increase the chart width/height or column/bar width/height to create a chart image with proper proportions. Also, try to alter the font angle.
Try to decrease the font size or increase the chart width/height or column/bar width/height to create a chart image with proper proportions. Also, try to alter the font angle.
Try to decrease the font size or increase the chart width/height or column/bar width/height to create a chart image with proper proportions.
CentropeSTATISTICS supports the creation of chloroplethic maps. This means that table content is converted into a map where each municipality is assigned one of the legend colours. The municipality area is then covered in this colour. The standard rules of cartographic visualisation do not allow absolute numbers to be drawn as coloured area. You have to select data related to the size of the coloured area (i. e. the municipality area) – like population density (inhabitants per square kilometre).
All meaningful combinations are available for selection. All other possibilites would not create meaningful output and therefore are not available for selection. If you think we forgot a meaningful combination in one of our predefined selections, please use the contact form on our website to let us know.
In the unlikely event of a CentropeSTATISTICS database error message, first of all try to repeat the steps you did. If the error message remains (instead of the desired result showing up), please copy the error message into the contact form on our website and describe what you did with a few words.
Open the table options area (click on the + sign next to the word “Options” above the table). There you will see a button labelled “Explain column names”. Click here to learn more about the meaning of each table column.
CentropeSTATISTICS supports the creation of chloroplethic maps. This means that table content is converted into a map where each municipality is assigned one of the legend colours. The municipality area is then covered in this colour. The standard rules of cartographic visualisation do not allow absolute numbers to be drawn as coloured area. You have to select data related to the size of the coloured area (i. e. the municipality area) – like population density (inhabitants per square kilometre).
For most table columns, it will make sense either to create a chart or to create a pie chart – the other one won’t offer useful output. Both options for the same column will only be available in certain cases.
Any chart is created for all available years by default. As soon as the chart is brought to your screen, you can scroll down to the chart options where you will find a line labelled “Select years to show”. Here you can switch on or off each single year. Hit “Apply to chart” afterwards to reload the chart with your updated settings.
Pie charts are only available if you select a single municipality. If you select more than one municipality, you will automatically receive a bar chart because data of more than one municipality cannot be displayed in a single pie.
Create your chart in the usual manner (with absolute values), then scroll down the chart options and select “Indexed values”. A pop-up window appears where you can choose which year’s values should be the index basis (100).
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