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POI (WMS)

This web service allows visualization of the Points Of Interest (POI) indicating the location of places of interest in Belgium, collected by NGI. The dataset consists of 97 POI types grouped into 6 classes (natural elements, religious elements, patrimonial elements, elements of general interest, infrastructures, economy).

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Date (Creation)
2023-09-01
Date (Revision)
2023-12-02
Citation identifier
BE.NGI-IGN / 53217367-8efa-40fc-be04-9a81e27ac806
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

National Geographic Institute

Bert Van Mele

products@ngi.be

Custodian
Annex D4 of the European Commission Regulation 1205/2008
  • infoMapAccessService

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

  • Economy and energy
  • Mobility
  • Health
  • Hydrography
  • Occupation and planning of sea and land areas
  • Environmental data
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Utility and governmental services
  • Transport networks
  • Production and industrial facilities
  • Land use
  • Buildings
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01
  • telecommunications
  • tree
  • civilian protection
  • fire service
  • cultural facility
  • zoological garden
  • health facility
  • museum
  • police
  • educational institution
  • public domain
  • waste disposal
  • lighting
  • rail traffic
  • non-residential building
  • brewing industry
  • solar power station
  • slag
  • cooling tower
  • windmill
  • water mill
  • tunnel
  • training centre
  • station
  • sports facility
  • sluice
  • point
Spatial scope
  • National
Keywords
  • POI

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

•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.

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access
Use limitation

•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.

Service Type
view
Description

Belgium

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Coupled Resource
Operation Name Scoped name Identifier

GetCapabilities

0a9bcf6b-3fa6-4590-b1d8-8058280279d5

Coupling Type
Tight
Contains Operations
Operation Name Distributed Computing Platforms Connect Point

GetCapabilities

Web services https://data.geo.be/ws/poi/wms?request=getcapabilities&service=wms
Operates On
  • POI

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WMS

https://data.geo.be/ws/poi/wms?service=wms&request=getcapabilities&version=1.3.0
Hierarchy level
Service
Other

service

Domain consistency

Name of measure

INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Title
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Network Services
Date (Publication)
2009-08-19
Explanation

The service described does not meet the technical requirements as defined by the Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009.

Pass
No

Metadata

File identifier
53217367-8efa-40fc-be04-9a81e27ac806 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Service
Hierarchy level name

Webmap Service

Date stamp
2026-05-12T15:43:31
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

National Geographic Institute

Bert Van Mele

metadata@ngi.be

Point of contact
Other language
Language Character encoding
French UTF8
Dutch; Flemish UTF8
German UTF8
English UTF8
 
 

Overviews

overview

Keywords

POI
Belgian Federal Thesaurus

Economy and energy Environmental data Health Hydrography Mobility Occupation and planning of sea and land areas
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

brewing industry civilian protection cooling tower cultural facility educational institution fire service health facility lighting museum non-residential building point police public domain rail traffic slag sluice solar power station sports facility station telecommunications training centre tree tunnel waste disposal water mill windmill zoological garden
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Buildings Land use Production and industrial facilities Transport networks Utility and governmental services
Spatial scope

National


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