Decentralized Municipal Entities v1.0 - January 2025
Geographic base of the decentralized municipal entities (EMD) of Catalonia, with their names and codes, derived from the delimitation files of the entities and the municipalities to which they belong, and from reference cartographic sources. Of the boundaries of the polygons of the EMD represented in this base, only those that have a recognition act, a resolution published in the DOGC or a judicial resolution that determines the current official line are definitive, as long as they have coordinates in the current reference system. The rest of the boundaries must be considered provisional. The EMD are a type of entity with a territorial scope lower than the municipality, that is, local governments below the municipalities.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2025-01-21
- Identifier
- IDEC / entitats-municipals-descentralitzades-v1r0-202501
- Purpose
- The objective of this geoinformation is: To serve as a reference in all those areas of information that decentralized municipal entities require as a basis for work and representation, such as technical activities, analysis, management, planning or administration of the territory and its representation on a map.
- IDEC - llocs
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- Catalonia
- Spain
- Europe
- IDEC - temes
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- Municipal and territorial delimitation
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Metadata language
- Catalan; Valencian
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Description
- Spatial extent covers all Catalonia. Temporal extent refers to the date of the data.
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- Unique resource identifier
- ETRS89 UTM zone 31 North (EPSG:25831)
- Distribution format
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GeoPackage
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- OnLine resource
- Data download
- OnLine resource
- WMS view service ( OGC Web Map Service )
- OnLine resource
- WFS download service ( OGC Web Feature Service )
- OnLine resource
- Open ICGC QGIS plugin
- OnLine resource
- Technical specifications
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
- Compliance with INSPIRE requirements (data)
- Evaluation method description
- The data of this dataset do not aim to achieve compliance with INSPIRE regulations. For this reason, its conformity is not evaluated and it is declared not conformant compliant by default.
Conformance result
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
- Compliance with INSPIRE requirements (metadata)
- Evaluation method description
- The compliance of the metadata is evaluated using the "INSPIRE Reference Validator" web tool. The metadata is considered correct when the only errors reported are related with the main language of the metadata file. These errors are due to the fact that Catalan is not included in the list of official languages of the European Union.
Conformance result
- Statement
- The determination of the polygons of the decentralized municipal entities comes from the selective fusion of the following sources of information: For the limits of the EMD and the limits between municipalities, of a definitive nature with coordinates in the current reference system, it comes from the reports of the topographic work carried out by the ICGC, based on the recognition records, the resolutions published in the DOGC or the judicial resolutions that determine the current official line; For the limits of the EMD of a definitive nature without coordinates in the current reference system, it comes from the interpretation of the recognition records, the resolutions published in the DOGC or the judicial resolutions that determine the current official line; For the boundaries of non-definitive EMDs, it comes from the interpretation and approximation of the old 1:50,000 Municipal Database of Catalonia of the ICGC, from the old cartographic minutes and the documentation (minutes, notebooks and cartography at a scale of 1:25,000) of the municipal demarcation files deposited at the National Geographic Institute; For the boundaries between municipalities of a non-definitive nature, it comes from the topographical re-planning or technical analysis of the municipal boundary lines of Catalonia carried out by the ICGC based on the documentation (minutes, notebooks and cartography at a scale of 1:25,000) of the municipal demarcation files deposited at the Instituto Geográfico Nacional; For the closing line of the polygons, with the sea and the neighbouring countries, it comes, respectively, from the coastline of the 1:5,000 Topographic Database of the ICGC and the "Base de datos de Límites Jurisdiccionales de España" of the Instituto Geográfico Nacional.
- Description
- Reports of the topographic works carried out by the ICGC
- Description
- Recognition acts, resolutions published in the DOGC or judicial resolutions
- Description
- Municipal base of Catalonia 1:50,000 from the ICGC, old cartographic minutes, and documentation (minutes, notebooks and cartography at a scale of 1:25,000) of the municipal delimitation files deposited at the Instituto Geográfico Nacional
- Description
- Topographic re-planning or technical analysis of the municipal boundary lines of Catalonia carried out by the ICGC
- Description
- Coastline of the Topographic Base 1:5 000 of the ICGC, and "Base de datos de Límites Jurisdictionales de España" of the Instituto Geográfico Nacional
- File identifier
- entitats-municipals-descentralitzades-v1r0-202501 XML
- Metadata language
- Catalan; Valencian
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21
- Metadata standard name
- IDEC profile of metadata of spatial datasets
- Metadata standard version
- Version 5.0
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