Belgian country dataset for EuroBoundaryMap 2021

EuroBoundaryMap country dataset provides a geographic database for administrative and statistical regions that will be maintained at the source level by the National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs), and by providing harmonized access conditions for this geographic information within the framework of EuroGeographics.

Identification

Data identification

Citation

Date (Publication)
2021-01-20
Date (Revision)
2019-12-31
Citation identifier
BE_EBM_2021

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Administrative units

  • Statistical units

  • Geographical names

  • Population distribution — demography
Use limitation

Restrictions on the access and use of a resource or metadata: https://eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/licensing/

Access constraints
Intellectual property rights
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
100000
Language
Français
Language
Nederlands; Vlaams
Language
Deutsch
Character set
MD_CharacterSetCode_utf8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Location
  • Society

Extent

Description

Belgium
N
S
E
W
thumbnail


 

Distribution

Distribution

Distribution format
  • ESRI-Shapefile ( 1.0 )

  • ESRI-FileGeodatabase ( ArcGIS 10.1 )

 

Quality

Data quality

Scope

Hierarchy level
Tile
Dataset

Belgian contribution to the EBM dataset

Conformance result

Citation

Date (Publication)
2021-01-20
Explanation

See the referenced specification
Pass
Yes

Lineage

Statement

See lineage document for Belgium

Source

Description

The population figures are updated every year based on the data of the statistics department of Belgium (Statbel).

The administrative boundaries are updated every 3 years based on the ITGI-Vref dataset; this is the national reference data at scale 1:10.000 produced by the IGN.
Denominator
10000
 

Ref. system

Reference system identifier
EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
 

Metadata

Metadata

File identifier
c2b2c086-1ece-416d-ac15-3c2801b4ab54 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
MD_CharacterSetCode_utf8
Parent identifier
EuroBoundaryMap (EC) 2021

23d5a7e0-d20c-4a02-a2c2-e3bb9241c20f
Hierarchy level
Tile
Date stamp
2021-01-05
Metadata standard name

ISO19115
Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006
Point of contact
  National Geographic Institute
13 Abbaye de la Cambre , Bruxelles , 1000 , Belgium
+32 2 629 84 08
www.ngi.be
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Keywords


Provided by

Access to the portal

Associated resources

Not available