Date (Creation)

2015-01-01

Date (Publication)

2017-01-01

Date (Revision)

2022-06-15

Citation identifier

GAPD / 0e0b1866-7437-4b5a-9828-c5db2f47ad49

Status

On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)	Gérald Henskens	datadelivery@minfin.fed.be	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency

Annually

Data.gov.be themes

• Regions and cities

INSPIRE feature concept dictionary

• Administrative Unit

Keywords

• Finances ATOM

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

• Reporting INSPIRE
• Administrative, statistical and cadastral units

Spatial scope

• National

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Administrative units

Keywords

• HVD_cat_administrative units

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

The licence is fully available in French ( https://finances.belgium.be/sites/default/files/Licence_plan_opendata_FR.PDF) or in Dutch ( https://financien.belgium.be/sites/default/files/Licentie_plan_opendata_NL.PDF).

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

10000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Boundaries

Description

The data from this serie which cover the whole belgian territory.

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
GML	3.2.1

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

The Administrative Units dataset is derived from the Administrative Units dataset - situation on January 1st. This is taken from the reference database for the land register data, CadGIS, whose situation is fixed on 1 January of the reference year. The geometric representation of administrative limits published in CadGIS is made up of a set of sections whose layout (X and Y coordinates) corresponds to the situation of an administrative limits at a given moment. Sometimes the coordinates are legally recorded, but often they are coming from an analysis and interpretation of legal documents, and/or field data or any other relevant information such as regional reference frames, aerial photographs or original plans. Therefore, this layout does not possess the same quality everywhere. Especially in places that have not been subject to recent measurements, (carto)graphic coordinates can be proposed and can therefore change over time if new information of better quality is provided in compliance with the update rules currently being developed. In the CadGIS database, the administrative limits are the delimitations of Belgian administrative entities at different hierarchical levels, i.e. municipalities, administrative arrondissements, provinces, regions and finally the country. Polygons (corresponding to the territories of the different hierarchical levels from the municipality to the country) are generated on the basis of the layout of these limits.

Metadata

File identifier

0e0b1866-7437-4b5a-9828-c5db2f47ad49 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

Dataset

Date stamp

2026-09-09T11:22:19

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)	Gérald Henskens	datadelivery@minfin.fed.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
German
Dutch; Flemish
French
English	UTF8