The European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) is the thematic centre for soil related data in Europe. Its ambition is to be the single reference point for and to host all relevant soil data and information at European level. It is the source for various authoritative European soil-related datasets.
All datasets are offered as standalone files, in various formats, most of them ready for use by common GIS software; file formats include shapefiles, ESRI GRID rasters, IDRISI, GeoTiff.