geo.be Metadata Catalog
POI - Elements of general interest
Points Of Interest - Elements of general interest contains point elements that are classified as being of general interest, namely embassies, (federal, regional, provincial, municipality) buildings, Govroam, court houses, prisons, police stations, post offices, education, sports buildings and infrastructure, cultural places and centres, libraries and archives, attraction-, recreation-, water- and wildlife parks, camp sites, museum, provincial domains, observatory, observation points, swimming pools, chemist's, crematorium, fire station, civil defence and healthcare in Belgium.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-09-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-04-03
- Citation identifier
- BE.NGI-IGN / 6c697427-8b2e-4bc6-8737-50e7cf12f5b4
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Geographic Institute
Bert Van Mele
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Quarterly
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Belgian Federal Thesaurus
- Keywords
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POI
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HVD_cat_land use, HVD_cat_buidings
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- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Use limitation
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Language
- Deutsch
- Language
- Français
- Language
- Nederlands; Vlaams
- Character set
- 8859 Part 15
- Topic category
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- Location
- Description
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Belgium
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- Distribution format
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Name Version GeoPackage Esri Shapefile
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://ac.ngi.be/remoteclient-open/ngi-standard-open/Vectordata/POI/POI-ElementsOfGeneralInterest/6c697427-8b2e-4bc6-8737-50e7cf12f5b4_geopackage+sqlite3_3812.zip
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://ac.ngi.be/remoteclient-open/ngi-standard-open/Vectordata/POI/POI-ElementsOfGeneralInterest/6c697427-8b2e-4bc6-8737-50e7cf12f5b4_geopackage+sqlite3_4326.zip
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://ac.ngi.be/remoteclient-open/ngi-standard-open/Vectordata/POI/POI-ElementsOfGeneralInterest/6c697427-8b2e-4bc6-8737-50e7cf12f5b4_x-shapefile_3812.zip
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://ac.ngi.be/remoteclient-open/ngi-standard-open/Vectordata/POI/POI-ElementsOfGeneralInterest/6c697427-8b2e-4bc6-8737-50e7cf12f5b4_x-shapefile_4326.zip
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
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INSPIRE Conformity
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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The dataset’s compliance with the technical requirements as defined by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 has not been checked
- Statement
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The POI dataset of the NGI was originally constructed as an auxiliary database for assigning appropriate attributes to NGI’s topographic reference data. Various sources were consulted. After checking and correcting the source data, additional POIs were added via aerial photographs or terrain observations.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 6c697427-8b2e-4bc6-8737-50e7cf12f5b4 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 15
- Parent identifier
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POI
0a9bcf6b-3fa6-4590-b1d8-8058280279d5
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-01-27T13:56:08
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Geographic Institute
Floor Van Damme
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8 Dutch; Flemish UTF8 German UTF8 English UTF8
