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Type |
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Description |
| administrativeUnit |
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Units of administration, dividing areas where Member States have and/or exercise jurisdictional rights, for local, regional and national governance, separated by administrative boundaries.
-- Description --
SOURCE Definition of Annex I theme, INSPIRE Directive [Regulation 1205/2008/EC].
EXAMPLES
<ul>
<li>Country;</li>
<li>Administrative unit within a country such as state, province, region, municipality. </li>
</ul>
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| building |
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Geographical location of buildings.
-- Description --
SOURCE Definition of Annex III theme [INSPIRE Directive].
NOTE This definition of building should be refined from future works on the specification of the INSPIRE annex III theme <i>BUILDINGS</i>.
EXAMPLES
<ul>
<li>Public buildings such as theatre, museum, library;</li>
<li>Industrial facility;</li>
<li>Religious buildings such as church, mosque, synagogue;</li>
<li>Recreational buildings such as stadium; </li>
<li>Historical and ancient cite;</li>
<li>Cultural monument</li>
</ul>
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| hydrography |
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Hydrographic elements, including marine areas and all other water bodies and items related to them, including river basins and sub-basins.
-- Description --
SOURCE Definition of Annex I theme <i>HYDROGRAPHY</i>, INSPIRE Directive [Regulation 1205/2008/EC].
NOTE For the usage with Geographical names this includes named places in seas and oceans.
EXAMPLES
<ul>
<li>Marine areas and parts of them such as sea, gulf, sea strait, sea channel, fjord, sea bay;</li>
<li>Inland water areas such as lake, reservoir, pond, lake strait, lake bay;</li>
<li>Watercourses such as river, stream, rapids, waterfall, canal; </li>
<li>Other hydrographic features such as glacier, snowfield, geyser, spring, fountain, well.</li>
</ul>
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| landcover |
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Physical and biological cover of the earth's surface including artificial surfaces, agricultural areas, forests, (semi-)natural areas, wetlands, water bodies.
-- Description --
SOURCE Definition of Annex III theme, INSPIRE Directive.
EXAMPLES
<ul>
<li>Forest;</li>
<li>Low vegetation areas such as thicket;</li>
<li>Wetlands such as marsh, swamp, bog;</li>
<li>Agricultural areas such as arable land, cultivated field, pasture;</li>
<li>Other terrain cover features such as desert, badland, lava field, remarkable tree.</li>
</ul>
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| landform |
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Geomorphologic terrain feature .
-- Description --
EXAMPLES
<ul>
<li>Land elevations such as mountain range, mountain, mountainside, fell, highland, hill, ridge, peak;</li>
<li>Land depressions such as plain, valley, pass, gorge;</li>
<li>Island, rocky islet, archipelago;</li>
<li>Coastal land formations such as peninsula, headland, cape, delta, beach, cliff;</li>
<li>Other landforms such as cave, devil's churn, stone.</li>
</ul> |
| populatedPlace |
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A place inhabited by people.
-- Description --
EXAMPLES
<ul>
<li>City, town, town district, village;</li>
<li>Hamlet, isolated house.</li>
</ul>
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| protectedSite |
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Area designated or managed within a framework of international, Community and Member States' legislation to achieve specific conservation objectives.
-- Description --
SOURCE Definition of Annex I theme, INSPIRE Directive [Regulation 1205/2008/EC].
EXAMPLES National park, nature reserve.
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| transportNetwork |
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Road, rail, air and water transport networks and related infrastructure. Includes links between different networks.
-- Description --
SOURCE Definition of Annex I theme, INSPIRE Directive [Regulation 1205/2008/EC].
EXAMPLES
<ul>
<li>Air transport structures and facilities such as airport, heliport;</li>
<li>Water transport structures and facilities such as harbour, dock, pier, ferry line;</li>
<li>Rail transport structures and facilities such as railway station, railway bridge, railway tunnel;</li>
<li>Road transport structures and facilities such as bus station, highway, road, street, road bridge, road tunnel.</li>
</ul>
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| other |
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A spatial object not included in the other types of the code list.
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