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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
This AtomFeed download service provides access to federal datasets that are not reported under the INSPIRE Directive. The datasets can be accessible for free or under conditions.
•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files •The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use. •Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden •Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.
Top10Vector – Land cover and vegetation is the vector dataset of the land use of unbuilt land areas in Belgium. This data set includes three classes. First class: isolated vegetation. Second class: land cover zones. Third class: linear vegetation. This dataset can be downloaded via the link in 'Access'.
LC_GroundLevelLandcoverZone: the data have been collected during field campaigns and transcribed on black and white aerial photographs at the scale of 1:10 000. The limits of the parcels have been plotted on black and white flights at the scales of 1:21 000 or 1:40 000, depending on the areas and the years. Afterwards, the parcels and their identification have been structured into an homogeneous polygonal 2D layer (XY geometry in the Belgian Lambert 1972 projection). In 2006-2008, this layer has been restructured and converted into 3D (2D + Z) by geometric correlation with the old plotting data and a DTM. The data have been converted into a Belgian Lambert 2008 projection system.
Statistical sectors in Belgium (INSPIRE version)
The data set has been established according to the INSPIRE format. It presents in the form of polygons the breakdown of Belgium in almost 20,000 statistical sectors. The statistical sector is the basic territorial unit resulting from the subdivision of the territory of municipalities by STATBEL since 1970 for the dissemination of its statistics at a finer level than the municipal level. A statistical sector cannot extend over two municipalities and any point in the municipal territory is part of one and the same statistical sector. The 1970 and 1981 versions are shown in analogue format while the 2001, 2011, 2018, 2019 etc. versions are available in digital vector format. The files can be linked to the data on population, housing and disposable income on the website of Statbel.
Administrative, statistical and cadastral units
An open data license is available in French an Dutch See https://statbel.fgov.be/en/open-data
The data set ‘Statistical sectors in Belgium (INSPIRE version)’ is derived from the data set ‘Statistical sectors in Belgium (native version)’. The statistical sectors were created based on social, economic, urbanistic or morphological characteristics as part of the population and housing census from 1970. They were outlined and represented on analogue topographic 1:10,000 maps. Since then, they were updated several times: • the general population and housing census from 1981: to take into account the increase in settlement clusters, new infrastructure works as well as the new administrative borders due to the merger of municipalities carried out since the 1970 census; • the general population and housing census from 1991: to integrate the new administrative borders from the merger of municipalities in Antwerp; • the socio-economic survey from 2001: to take into account the exchange of territories among municipalities, the increase in settlement clusters and employment zones as well as the new infrastructure works such as the TGV railway line; • the population and housing census from 2011: to integrate the new municipal borders from an exchange of territories between two municipalities (Seneffe and Manage in the province of Hainaut) ; • in 2018: to integrate an exchange of territories between Belgium and the Netherlands and to include the intertidal zone in the territory of the municipalities bordering the North Sea and the new version of the administrative borders published by the General Administration of the Patrimonial Documentation; • since 2019, the borders of statistical sectors are reviewed annually based on the municipal borders provided by the General Administration of the Patrimonial Documentation in order to take into account their evolutions and geometric corrections. The digital versions available are derived from the vectorisation of analogue 1:10,000 maps from 1981 referenced in the CRS EPSG 31370 (Belgian Lambert 72) by means of electronic tables to be digitized. The 2001 version is built from a general version (1:10,000) of the administrative borders provided by the National Geographic Institute (NGI), while the following versions are based on more precise versions provided by the General Administration of the Patrimonial Documentation.
The contour lines are the set of lines connecting all points at the same elevation in a model used to represent the relief on a large scale.
In order to produce our new multipurpose (GIS, CAD...) contour lines for our internal and external customers, we use our 5m resolution DTM, which is being updated continually by means of checks and modifications using photogrammetry. (This DTM is derived from the most recent 1m resolution DTMs which are supplied by the regions. They are products which are derived from the processing of point clouds from LiDAR campaigns. After reprojecting the regional data in Lambert72 into our own datum, Lambert 2008, the DTMs are interpolated again to a 5m resolution.) The updated DTM is then processed through a low filter in order to generalize the modelling of the relief by deleting superfluous details. On the basis of this DTM, contour lines with a 1m25 contour interval are generated for the entire Belgian territory. Afterwards, these contour lines are generalized by means of selection (deleting the shortest contour lines) and by smoothing.
Orthophotos are digital aerial photographs in which the systematic distortions caused by the central projection, terrain relief and an image acquisition axis that is not always perfectly vertical have been corrected. The national orthophoto coverage is renewed annually. This dataset always contains the most recent operational orthophoto mosaics for the entire territory of Belgium. When the most recent acquisition campaign does not provide full coverage, the dataset is composed of the last one or two campaigns. In the current version of the dataset, the most recent national orthophoto coverage consists of a combination of the 2023 and 2024 campaigns. The orthophotos have a spatial resolution of 25 cm in Wallonia and 12.5 cm in Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region. The source data are supplied by the Belgian administrative Regions. NGI harmonises these regional datasets (geometrically and radiometrically) into a single national mosaic, georeferenced in Lambert 2008 (EPSG:3812) and tiled according to the MapIndex1 grid. The dataset is INSPIRE-compliant and can be downloaded as compressed JPEG2000 files (JP2) per MapIndex1 tile, with the corresponding world file (.j2w) and metadata describing the extent of the tiles.
The orthophotos are available in geotiff lambert 2008 and are tiled according to the half-sheet map 1:10000. (see tiling description at orthophotos_gml_L08.zip)
Buildings is the INSPIRE 2D vector data set of the "Constructions" layer originated from the Top10vector product of the National Geographic Institute in Belgium . It includes the "Building" features and the "OtherConstruction" features in accordance with the INSPIRE specifications.
Occupation and planning of sea and land areas
The INSPIRE data set is generated from the TOP10Vector-contruction data source . https://www.geo.be/catalog/details/1f4296b0-76f6-4f1b-8880-315406b367e1?l=en
The entities included in the dataset represent the Belgian rail transport network in the sense of the Inspire European directive. The dataset comprises several classes and is in accordance with the INSPIRE specifications. The RailLink class represents, in a linear manner, all of the rail links between each pair of dots for the network considered. The RailwayStationNode class represents occasionally all of the stations located along the network. In addition to this are two classes without geometry. The RailwatType class ranks the segments according to the type of rail transport for which they were designed. All the segments for this dataset belong to the train category. The "RailwaytElectrification" class lists the segments according to whether they are electrified or not.
The data have been collected in two different ways: on the one hand, by field survey, writing down the attribute data on mat-pale photographs, followed by the photogrammetric stereo restitution of the geometry in a CAD-file (with Lambert72 xyz-coordinates) and finally the topological cleaning up and the import of the attribute data in a 2D-database. On the other hand, by photogrammetric stereo restitution of the geometry in a CAD-file (with Lambert72 xyz-coordinates), followed by the import (on-site) of the attribute data in the CAD-files and finally the topological cleaning up in a 2D-database.During the dataloading into the new ITGI-model, the contents of the 2D-database have been mapped and converted into a database with Lambert2008-coordinates. The z-coordinate was recovered from the photogrammetric restitution's CAD-files or calculated on the basis of the DTM.
The entities included in the dataset represent the physical network in the sense of the Inspire European directive. The dataset comprises several classes and is in accordance with the INSPIRE specifications. The Wetland class represents poorly drained or periodically flooded portions of land, the soil of which is saturated with water but where vegetation is nevertheless able to develop. The StandingWater class represents flooded areas that are, nevertheless, completely surrounded by land.
Landuse-Particular Zone is the INSPIRE 2D vector data set of the "Particular zones" layer originated from the Top10vector product of the National Geographic Institute in Belgium . It includes the "ExistingLandUseDataSet" features and the "ExistingLandUseObject" features in accordance with the INSPIRE specifications.
The INSPIRE data set is generated from the TOP10Vector-Particular Zones data source. https://www.geo.be/catalog/details/098a4670-27e5-4c21-9a28-5e47ea1d1173?l=en
The entities included in the dataset represent the Belgian road transport network in the sense of the Inspire European directive. The dataset comprises several classes. The RoadLink class represents, in a linear manner, all of the road links between each pair of dots for the network considered. The footpaths, cycle paths or carriageways that connect the pairs of dots correspond to as many entities in the class. The RoadServiceArea class represents the sections of space devoted to auxiliary road transport functions, such as service stations or rest areas. In addition to this are two classes without geometry. RoadWidth class describes in metres the width of each segment of the "road links" class. The "functional importance" class ranks the segments of the "road links" class by functional importance on the road transport network.
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