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Administrative units municipalities

The dataset shows national, county and municipal divisions within the country. It has the most accurate boundaries that have been recorded digitally and are collected in a dataset.



The municipalities are delimited by National Border, Outer Limit of Territorial Waters 12 Nautical Miles, Agreed Delimitation Line, county boundary and municipal boundary.



The dataset also includes a baseline and 1 nautical mile, which are legal lines that can be used when processing cases linked with specific laws.



The units include properties which indicate official municipal numbers. The official Norwegian, Sami and Kven names for counties and municipalities are taken from SSR. There is also information about Sami language administrative districts.

Simple

Date (Publication)
2006-07-01
Date (Creation)
0001-01-01
Date (Revision)
2024-12-17
Code
kommuner
Purpose

The dataset consists of the official county boundaries.

Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Norwegian Mapping Authority

post@kartverket.no

Publisher

Norwegian Mapping Authority

Carina Tolpinrud Jøntvedt

post@kartverket.no

Owner
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Administrative enheter

Nasjonal inndeling i geografiske initiativ og SDI-er
  • NSDI data

  • Inspire

  • Geodata Act

  • Norway Digital

  • Beredskapsbase

  • dataNorgeNo

  • Felles datakatalog

Nasjonal tematisk inndeling (DOK-kategori)
  • Basis geodata

Place
  • Norway Mainland

Administrative enheter i Norge
  • Norge
Theme
  • Municipality

  • Administrative units

  • Administrative borders

  • Kommunegrenser

  • Fylkesgrenser

  • Riksgrense

  • ABAS

Spatial scope
  • National
Specific usage

Administrative case processing. Analysis and display in a GIS system. Display of statistics and analyses. Production of maps and derived products.

User contact info
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role
Owner
Use limitation

No conditions apply

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Åpne data
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Creative Commons BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
Classification
Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
5000
Language
Norwegian
Topic category
  • Boundaries
Description

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Begin date
2025-01-01
Supplemental Information

The geometry is derived from the Cadastre, which is updated by the municipalities. National Borders and Outer Limit of Territorial Waters are inserted from the Norwegian Mapping Authority's own established files.

Unique resource identifier
EPSG:25832
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:25833
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:25835
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:4258

Spatial representation info

No information provided.
Distribution format
Name Version

FGDB

GeoJSON

GML

PostGIS

SOSI

FGDB

GeoJSON

GML

PostGIS

SOSI

Distributor

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Kartverket

post@kartverket.no

Distributor
Distributor format
Name Version

SOSI

4.5

Units of distribution

fylkesvis, kommunevis, landsfiler

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

GEONORGE:DOWNLOAD

https://nedlasting.geonorge.no/api/capabilities/
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

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
Title

inspire

Date
Explanation

The data is according to the product specification

Pass
Yes

Conformance result

Title

SOSI produktspesifikasjon: Administrative enheter Norge

Date (Publication)
2022-12-14
Title

sosi

Date
Explanation

The data is according to the product specification

Pass
Yes

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Title

Sosi applikasjonsskjema

Date (Publication)
2022-12-14
Title

uml-sosi

Date
Explanation

SOSI files are according to application form

Pass
Yes

Conformance result

Title

Sosi applikasjonsskjema

Date (Publication)
2022-12-14
Title

uml-gml

Date
Explanation

GML files are according to application form

Pass
Yes

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Prosentvis dekning i forhold til datasettets utstrekning
Measure description

Datasettets faktiske kartlagte areal i forhold til datasettets spesifiserte utstrekning

Quantitative result

Value
100

Completeness omission

Name of measure
Prosentvis oppfyllelse av FAIR-prinsipper
Measure description

Angir fullstendighet i forhold til krav fra FAIR-prinsippene (The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship)

Quantitative result

Value
96

Metadata

File identifier
041f1e6e-bdbc-4091-b48f-8a5990f3cc5b XML
Metadata language
Norwegian
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-12-18
Metadata standard name

ISO19115

Metadata standard version

2003

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Norwegian Mapping Authority

Carina Tolpinrud Jøntvedt

post@kartverket.no

Point of contact
Other language
Language Character encoding
English UTF8
 
 

Overviews

overview
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overview
medium

Spatial extent

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Keywords

ABAS Administrative borders Administrative units Fylkesgrenser Kommunegrenser Municipality Riksgrense


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