National Geographic Institute (Belgium)
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The Belgian National Geographic Institute (NGI) (French: Institut géographique national; Dutch: Nationaal Geografisch Instituut) is the Belgian national mapping agency. It is overseen by the Belgian Ministry of Defense.[1] It collects, manages, and brokers geographic information, in the form of topographic maps, photographs, and digital geodata.[2] It also operates the Belgian geodetic reference system.[1]
The headquarters are located at Campus Renaissance near the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels.[3] It operates Its historical collections include topographic maps of Belgium made during the German occupation of Belgium during the First World War.[4]
In 2001, the NGI received an award from the International Cartographic Association for its 1:50,000 map of Antwerp.[5] In 2021, the institute provided emergency services with extremely detailed photographs of disaster areas to assist with the search for missing persons.[6]
