geo.be Metadata Catalog
Administrative units - current situation
Administrative units - current situation corresponds to the dataset of administrative units from the reference database for the land register data. Administrative limits are legally defined by an administrative entity or between two administrative entities. In Belgium, administrative limits as legally defined are fixed and can only be changed by a law, ordinance or decree. The General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation of the FPS Finance is named by the federal authorities as the authentic source of Belgian administrative limits.
This dataset corresponds to the current situation at the time of consultation. It is composed of five geometric classes. The first class corresponds to the whole national territory. The second corresponds to the territory of the three regions, the third to the territory of the provinces, the fourth to the territory of the administrative districts, the fifth to the territory of the municipalities. The dataset is freely downloadable via the ad hoc WFS service.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-12-15
- Date (Revision)
- 2020-12-15
- Citation identifier
- GAPD / 63c1ef4f-71dc-11eb-b468-3448ed25ad7c
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)
Gérald Henskens
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Language
- English
- Language
- Deutsch
- Language
- Français
- Language
- Nederlands; Vlaams
- Character set
- 8859 Part 15
- Topic category
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- Planning cadastre
- Description
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Belgium
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- Distribution format
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Name Version Esri Shapefile 10.2
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WFS http://ccff02.minfin.fgov.be/geoservices/arcgis/services/WMS/Cadastral_LayersWFS/MapServer/WFSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS Download service
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://eservices.minfin.fgov.be/ecad-web/#/
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
Digital transfer options
Digital transfer options
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS http://ccff02.minfin.fgov.be/geoservices/arcgis/services/WMS/Cadastral_Layers/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS View service
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
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INSPIRE Conformity
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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The dataset’s compliance with the technical requirements as defined by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 has not been checked
- Statement
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Administrative units - current situation are extracted from the from the reference database for the land register data, CadGIS, which is continuously updated. This is the most recent (current) situation of administrative units. 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 are 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
- 63b98ade-71dc-11eb-8bf5-3448ed25ad7c XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-09-25T11:50:08
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)
Gérald Henskens
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French Dutch; Flemish German English UTF8
