Date (Revision)

2026-01-23

Date (Publication)

2017-03-15

Citation identifier

BE.NGI-IGN / 098a4670-27e5-4c21-9a28-5e47ea1d1173

Purpose

Top10Vector is a vector dataset containing the NGI's geometrically most accurate and semantically most detailed topo-geographic vector data. The data originate from the topo-geographic inventory of the Belgian territory which was build and is maintained by the National Geographic Institute. The dataset contains 35 feature classes, which are grouped in eight themes: road network, railway network, hydrography, high-voltage network, constructions, land cover and vegetation, local relief and particular zones. The geometry of the data of all these themes is described by x, y, z-coordinates. Top10Vector is available for the entire Belgian territory and can be downloaded in the form of a GeoPackage or Shapefiles.

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Jeanne Annendyck	products@ngi.be	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency

Continual

Maintenance note

The update cycle frequency the NGI aims at is 1 year for the road network,3 years for the constructions and 6 for all the other themes.

Resource format

Name	Version
GeoPackage	1.3.0

Data.gov.be themes

• Science and technology

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

• Land and natural area cover and use

Spatial scope

• National

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Buildings

GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

• federal government
• building
• tunnel
• bridge
• engineering work

Keywords

• HVD_cat_land use, HVD_cat_land cover

Use limitation

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

10000

Language

Nederlands; Vlaams

Character set

8859 Part 15

Topic category

• Structure

Description

Belgium

Distribution format

Name	Version
GeoPackage	1.3.0
Esri Shapefile	1.0

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

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.

Metadata

File identifier

098a4670-27e5-4c21-9a28-5e47ea1d1173 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Parent identifier

Top10Vector

e0fdc885-8851-482e-80c9-6a0ba3709761

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

Top10Vector

Date stamp

2026-07-08T09:25:40

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	Floor Van Damme	metadata@ngi.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French
Dutch; Flemish
German
English	UTF8