GISCO - Administrative units 2016 at country level, Jul. 2018

This data set contains the administrative boundaries at country level of the world and is based on the geometry from EBM v12.x. of EuroGeographics for the members of Eurogeographics, the Global Administrative Units Layer (2015) from FAO (UN) and geometry from the Turkish National Statistical Office. This dataset consists of 2 feature classes (regions, boundaries) per scale level and there are 6 different scale levels (100K, 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M and 60M). The public dataset is available at 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M, while the full dataset at 100K is restricted.

This metadata only refers to the full dataset (polygon) at 100k (CNTR_RG_100K_2016 in the GISCO database) and shall only be used internally by the EEA. This metadata has been slightly adapted from the original metadata file provided by Eurostat (European Commission) and is to be used only for internal EEA purposes. For reference, the original metadata file provided by ESTAT (CNTR_2016.xml) is provided together with the dataset.

The public dataset is available for download on http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/GISCO/distribution/v2/countries/countries-2016-files.html

Date (Creation): 2018-05-01

Date (Publication): 2018-05-23

Citation identifier: eurostat_v_4258_100_k_gisco-admin-boundaries_2016

Status: Superseded

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Administrative units

Keywords

GEMET

administrative boundary

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

World

Spatial scope

Global

Use limitation: Generalised dataset derived from EuroGeographics and UN-FAO GI data. The dataset may be used and distributed if: The source (EuroGeographics and UN-FAO) is acknowledged, AND The data is not used for commercial purpose, AND The original geometry is generalised to the equivalent of a scale of 1:1.000.000 or smaller. The source, copyright and branding will be acknowledged if the geographic data are used in Commission products. The acknowledgement will be displayed as “@EuroGeographics” on the map or in an acknowledgement text. The size of the text on the map will be proportional to the size of the map. The maximum length of copyright texts on electronic maps (web maps or electronic applications) is 20 characters. No copyright text will be applied for online icon maps with less than 150 x 150 pixels.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: (e) intellectual property rights

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 100000

Language of dataset: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Boundaries

Begin: 2017-01-01

End

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:4258

Distribution format

Spatialite ( 1)

OnLine resource

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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The dataset is based on the geometry from EBM v12.x. of EuroGeographics for the members of Eurogeographics, the Global Administrative Units Layer (2015) from FAO (UN) and geometry from the Turkish National Statistical Office. This resulted in a common repository of geometry of which the different datasets were derived. The different scale levels were derived of generalisations of the common repository on 100K scale. This means that within each scale level the feature classes of all these datasets: COMM_2016, NUTS_2016, CNTR_2016, EEZ_2016 and COAS_2016, are fully coherent and compliant. Each scale level in the CNTR_2016 dataset consists of 2 feature classes (regions and boundaries) The boundaries and regions are related to each other through a relationship table. In addition to the reThe dataset is based on the geometry from EBM v12.x. of EuroGeographics for the members of Eurogeographics, the Global Administrative Units Layer (2015) from FAO (UN) and geometry from the Turkish National Statistical Office. This resulted in a common repository of geometry of which the different datasets were derived. The different scale levels were derived of generalisations of the common repository on 100K scale. This means that within each scale level the feature classes of all these datasets: COMM_2016, NUTS_2016, CNTR_2016, EEZ_2016 and COAS_2016, are fully coherent and compliant. Each scale level in the CNTR_2013 dataset consists of 2 feature classes (regions and boundaries) The boundaries and regions are related to each other through a relationship table. In addition to the region and boundary feature classes there is also 1 label feature class which is scale independent. For each CNTR in the region feature class there is exactly 1 label and an associated record in the CNTR_AT table which contains names and poltical status.gion and boundary feature classes there is also 1 label feature class which is scale independent. For each CNTR in the region feature class there is exactly 1 label and an associated record in the CNTR_AT table which contains names and poltical status.

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