Territorial information, shapefiles and indicators accessibles for actors until commune and infra communal levels

This article presents the carried out researches within the framework of the creation of an indicators gate for the local actors. We evaluate in this one the accessible territorial data for the actors, and the cartographic files of the administrative or statistical entities to represent them. We analyze the sources of information, and determine its accessibility in the various countries of the European Union. We moreover deal with problems of the relevant territorial scales and cartographic representation of the data.