Vestlandsforsking have collected and systematized data on transport, energy and the environment since the institute was created in 1987. An early milestone was in 1993 with the release of the report "
Datasets of __hydro energy potential __are Downloadable as GIS shapefiles. Two Spatial reference systems are applied to the Downloadable shapefiles: Irish transverse Mercator (ITM) and WGS 84 (EPSG:38
