OpenStreetMap+ Protected nature areas in continental Europe (IUCN status + Natura 2000)

Twelve maps of continental Europe indicating the protected nature area status in 2019 according to Natura 2000 and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The IUCN status was extracted from crowdsourced data obtained from OpenStreetMap through geofabrik.de.

This dataset contains:

• 3 raster maps representing Natura 2000 protection status (A, B and C), named Natura2000_[status].tif
• 8 raster maps representing OSM-derived IUCN protection status (1a, 1b, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 'other'), named OSM_IUCN_[status].tif
• 1 aggregated map (adm_protected.area_natura2000.osm_p_30m_0..0cm_2019..2021_eumap_epsg3035_v0.1) where each of the 11 protection statuses, as well as pixels where multiple statuses apply, are assigned a unique value. This map can also be accessed interactively at maps.opendatascience.eu.

All files are provided as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs and projected in the Coordinate Reference System ETRS89 / LAEA Europe (= EPSG code 3035). Styling files for the aggregated raster are provided in both SLD and QML format.