geo.be Metadata Catalog
geo.be Metadata Catalog (National Geographic Institute)
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
Buyers' origin - Real estate companies corresponds to the dataset describing the origin of the buyers (legal persons engaged in real estate activities as defined in section L of the NACE-BEL 2008 nomenclature) of real estate located in Belgium according to the municipality of their headquarters for legal persons settled in Belgium and according to the country or territory of their headquarters for foreign legal persons (headquarter at the date of the deed). This dataset is made up of seven classes. The first class shows, at national level, for each type of property, the total number of parcels, the number of parcels acquired by buyers from each Belgian municipality and the number of parcels acquired by buyers from each country or territory. The number of parcels takes into account the shares actually acquired. The second class shows this information at the level of the three regions. The following classes do the same at the level of provinces, arrondissements, municipalities, land register divisions and statistical sectors. The dataset is freely downloadable, in the form of zipped CSV files.
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).
Buyers' origin - Real estate companies is compiled from the contents of the reference database for the record of real estate deeds. The database records for each deed, the real right concerned, the identification of the parties and the situation of the real estate property concerned as well as its land register nature. The second database contains various items of information for each legal person from the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, the authentic source for legal persons.
View Service (WMS) for Alaro over Belgium
View Service (WMS) for Alaro over Belgium. All the parameters of the last run of Alaro can be visualized, most of them associated with a custom style.
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The eTOD digital terrain model (DTM) is a homogeneous and regular point grid indicating the elevation of the ground level in order to make a model of its surface. This DTM is obtained by resampling raw altimetric source data from the Flemish and Walloon Regions, grouped in Lambert 72 and with a resolution of 1 m; as well as data obtained internally by direct photogrammetric recording of structure points and lines based on the most recent aerial photographs for all areas not covered by regional data. For this DTM, the resolution and coordinate reference system are used as defined by the eTOD specifications.
This dataset is obtained by resampling raw altimetric source data from the Flemish and Walloon Regions, grouped in Lambert 72 and with a resolution of 1 m; as well as data obtained internally by direct photogrammetric recording of structure points and lines based on the most recent aerial photographs for all areas not covered by regional data.
Abbreviations of place names and administrative units
The reference list in Belgium for the unique abbreviations of all Belgian cities and municipalities. It also includes the submunicipalities, which do not have a clear definition.
Administrative, statistical and cadastral units
•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.
The names of towns and municipalities are not always unique. This can sometimes cause problems for the government, because it is not always clear which municipality is being referred to. This is certainly a problem when the municipality has to be used as an abbreviation. In order to work more efficiently, the FPS Justice has therefore drawn up a list of unique abbreviations for each city and (sub)municipality. This ensures that all FPS Justice employees refer to a particular city or municipality in the same way. This should make the work of magistrates, registrars, administrators, etc. easier and more efficient. Other government services, companies, organisations and citizens can also benefit from this system. That is why the NGI is making the list publicly available and it will be used as the reference list in Belgium and the only true source for all abbreviations of cities and municipalities in Belgium. It may be used by all government institutions and the private sector.
View service - Marine Strategy Framework Directive
This web service allows viewing the datasets under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).
Aeronautical Obstacle Evaluation Map for Belgium
The "Aeronautical Obstacle Evaluation Map for Belgium" allows to know whether advice is required for a construction or structure that, due to its height, may have an influence on aviation: if the planned construction or structure exceeds the height indicated on the map, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Federal Public Service Mobility and Transport should be requested for advice, according to the procedure on https://mobilit.belgium.be/nl/luchtvaart/veiligheid/hindernissen-en-bebakening. The height indicated on the map is determined by the federal ministers responsible for Civil Aviation and Defence. This height is determined in order to protect the civil and military aerodromes, the visual aviation routes, the military aviation areas and the civil and military aeronautical installations for communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS). Consequently, the use of this map allows the application of the following Regulation : Regulation (EC) N° 1108/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 216/2008 in the field of aerodromes, air traffic management and air navigation services and repealing Directive 2006/23/EC. In the Flemish Region the use of this chart allows the application of the article 35 §16 of “het besluit van de Vlaamse Regering van 27 november 2015 tot uitvoering van het decreet van 25 april 2014 betreffende de omgevingsvergunning”. The same data limited to the flemish Region are available on the Digitaal Vlaanderen website.
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
This dataset concerns government information. If you wish to re-use this data, you should contact the owner of the information.
Access restriction on the basis of Article 13 (1) (b) of the INSPIRE directive
The Aeronautical Obstacle Evaluation Map for Belgium is composed of various datasets: - Digital Terrain Model Belgium of the NGI (DTM5m) - Visual roads in Belgium: derived from the ITGI dataset of the NGI - Civil Aviation Authority (CAA): Heliports, ULModromes, model aviation, paramotors and aerodromes in Belgium - Belgocontrol: PAN-OPS, ILS, radar, DVOR and NDB for the certified Belgian airports and for the smaller Area Control Centers (ACC) for en-route air traffic control - Defense: full coverage of the Belgian territory, including the territorial waters and territorial airspace, for the aeronautical aspects (military airspace and military airports) as well as for the radar and communication systems. - Data about the certified airports in Belgium is provided by the airports themselves
Share of undeveloped cadastral aera - Wallonia
Share of the cadastral surface area that is not artificially developed in the cadastral and not unknown surface area to the administrative entity (region, province, district and municipality) for Wallonia
The land use and land cover data used by IWEPS for Wallonia are taken from the Belgian Cadastre (SPF Finance). A cadastral parcel includes the buildings, annexes, outbuildings, accesses and gardens that are contiguous to it, provided that the whole forms an indivisible whole and is assigned to the same use (SPF Finance, 2014). For each cadastral parcel, the surface area and the cadastral nature are available. The latter corresponds to the main use of the parcel at the time of its last cadastral registration (e.g. house, farm, business, etc.). In 2008, a land use nomenclature was developed on the basis of a joint reflection by the standing conference on territorial development, the SPW Environment and the IWEPS. The cadastral natures were grouped into 16 land use categories. These 16 categories can be grouped together to distinguish between artificial and non-artificial land. This grouping of parcels is based on the work of the European CORINE Land Cover (CLC) project in order to facilitate comparisons with other European regions. The land registry data are not exhaustive. In 2021, 5.2% of Wallonia's territory is not registered and/or of unknown nature. The unregistered areas are part of the public space (roads, squares, railways, rivers and canals, etc.). These areas of unknown nature are not homogeneously distributed over the Walloon territory. The proportion of unknown areas varies from 2% (larger or rural municipalities) to over 20% (Liège and Visé). The Sambre-et-Meuse region accounts for a large proportion of this area.
Real estate leases - annual version corresponds to the dataset describing leases on real estate items as recorded for registration purposes by the FPS Finance. This dataset is composed of five classes. The first class shows, at the national level, for each type of lease, the number of leases registered, the nature of the parties concerned by the contract and the median rent of the properties concerned. The second class includes this information at the level of the three regions. The following classes do the same at the level of provinces, arrondissements, municipalities. The dataset can be freely downloaded as a zipped CSV.
Real estate leases - annual version is compiled from the contents of the reference database for the registration of real estate leases. The database records the agreed monthly rent, the type of lease and the nature of the contracting parties for each contract. In practice, it is impossible to ensure that the leases entered into are actually registered and that the property is properly described. Therefore, the FPS Finance cannot guarantee the quality of the information or the exhaustiveness of the records.
Share of the cadastral land take - Wallonia
Share of the cadastral surface area that is artificially developed in the cadastral surface area and not unknown to the administrative entity (region, province, district and municipality) for Wallonia
Total settlement area and part of the settlement area in relation to the total area - Flanders
Settlement area is defined here in terms of land use. Settelement area is the space occupy to live, work, relax and move around. This includes everything that seals the soil but also includes various forms of non-paved green space, such as gardens and parks or sports grounds and these are therefore not counted as open space. These indicators show the total settelement area expressed in m² and the part of the settlement area in relation to the total area per administrative entity (region, province, district and municipality) for Flanders.
The concept 'land use' refers to the actual use of land for well-defined human activities (such as housing, industry and services, recreation, etc.), for crops (such as arable, pasture, etc.) or by natural vegetation (such as forest, scrubland, etc.). In order to monitor land use in Flanders, we rely on the Land Use File, which is constructed from 18 different sources of spatial information available in Flanders. The land use file consists of 4 levels (level 1: land cover; level 2: urbanised land use; level 3: multifunctional land use; level 4: port sites and military domains). VITO has combined these 4 levels into one aggregated land use file. This file gives an overview of the actual land use for each 10x10m cell in Flanders and consists of 18 land use categories.
FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Walloon Institute for Evaluation, Foresight and Statistics (IWEPS)
Walloon Institute for Evaluation, Foresight and Statistics
Province of Antwerp Province of West Flanders Province of East Flanders province of Flemisch Brabant Province of Limburg