Europe
GIMLabs in Europe
Log, manage and report ground investigations anywhere in Europe, in your national grid and your language's letters, with the same products UK teams use.
What works across Europe
Nothing here is a separate European edition. The products and plans are the same wherever your projects are, and a project anywhere in Europe works the way a UK one does.
National grids, per project
24 national grids for 21 countries, ETRS89 / UTM zones 28N to 38N for everywhere else and British National Grid, all from the EPSG database. Each project picks its own grid, searchable by country, grid name or EPSG code.
Your letters, everywhere
Names and descriptions such as Šentvid BH-č1, Łódź OW-3 or Győr TP-ő1 keep their letters through import, the table editor, log and figure PDFs, site plans, exports and downloaded file names.
Imports in the files you have
AGS, CSV and Excel (.xlsx, one sheet per table). CSVs saved as UTF-8, UTF-16 or the Windows code pages Excel uses across Europe (1250, 1252, 1253 Greek and 1257 Baltic) are recognised, so there is no need to re-save them first.
AGS with accented letters
AGS4 Rule 1 only allows plain ASCII. Files with letters like č, ł or ő import with a warning instead of a block, and an "ASCII only (strict AGS4)" export option writes a file a strict checker accepts.
European geology on the map
On Pro, the Manage map adds EuroGeoSurveys' EGDI 1:1 million surface geology for the whole of Europe, as two layers: lithology and age. Click a unit for its lithology, age and the survey that mapped it. The data is CC BY 4.0, and GIMLabs credits it wherever the layer is shown.
Country and time zone
Set your company's country in Product OS and GIMLabs fills in its time zone, shows dates and times in Manage, Insight and Connect in that zone, and suggests the national grid for new projects.
Countries with a national grid
Each page lists the country's grids and EPSG codes, its UTM zones and the letters GIMLabs handles there. Elsewhere in Europe, such as Germany, Denmark, Norway or Spain, projects use ETRS89 / UTM, which GIMLabs has for zones 28N to 38N.
- AustriaEPSG:31254, EPSG:31255, EPSG:31256
- BelgiumEPSG:3812, EPSG:31370
- CroatiaEPSG:3765
- CzechiaEPSG:5514
- EstoniaEPSG:3301
- FinlandEPSG:3067
- FranceEPSG:2154
- GreeceEPSG:2100
- HungaryEPSG:23700
- IrelandEPSG:2157, EPSG:29903
- LatviaEPSG:3059
- LiechtensteinEPSG:2056
- LithuaniaEPSG:3346
- NetherlandsEPSG:28992
- PolandEPSG:2180
- PortugalEPSG:3763
- RomaniaEPSG:3844
- SlovakiaEPSG:5514
- SloveniaEPSG:3794, EPSG:3912
- SwedenEPSG:3006
- SwitzerlandEPSG:2056
Still UK-first
GIMLabs started in the UK, and a few things still show it. Here is what to expect.
Description checks follow BS 5930
The automatic soil and rock description checks follow BS 5930, the UK standard. They don't check against EN ISO 14688 or 14689 yet, so read their suggestions with that in mind.
AGS is a UK format
GIMLabs reads and writes AGS4, the UK data transfer format, and also imports CSV and Excel and exports CSV, so you don't need AGS to bring data in or take it out.
Other datums are good to about a metre
Grids on ETRS89 convert without a datum shift. Grids on other national datums, such as Amersfoort, MGI or S-JTSK, use EPSG's published shift, good to about a metre: plenty for the map, not a survey-grade conversion.
Some map layers are UK only
BGS geology, coal mining and historic Ordnance Survey layers cover Great Britain, and the Environment Agency's cover England, so they are left out for projects outside Great Britain.
The app is in English
Screens, emails and help are in English. Your data can be in any European language written in the Latin alphabet.