The new map portal

The Geoportal of the National Grand Duchy of Luxembourg offers a new map portal, which is free available from the beginning of February 2010 under the URL http://map.geoportal.lu. This special new version is oriented to the general public and offers the following advantages between the original geoportal:

• A fullscreen mode, where the size of the map can be specified by the user
• An increased speed of loading and displaying due to new technology used
• An organization of contents by subject category rather than by data and data sets
• Structured content, complies with European Directive INSPIRE
• Intuitives manipulation tools similar to google
• Managing the transparency of any data layer displayed
• Background layers combines orthophotos and topographic maps through adjustable transparency
• A quick search of municipalities, localities, addresses and parcel numbers in a single search box

Site overview MAP.geoportal.lu :

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