Geographical division Direct

The service gives access to the geographical divisions county, municipality, district and land registry civil parishes. The product name in Swedish is Geografisk indelning Direkt.

About this product

The service is free to use. Certain authorisation is required for access to detailed geometry.

Maintenance and update frequency

Updates to the county and municipal division are made continuously when the Digital Register Map is updated. Updating takes place when a decision is made to change the position of the boundary or if geometries change without the position of the boundary is changing.

Updates without changing the position of the boundary are most common. An example of such a change is dividing of a property that has a border with another municipality, the geometry is split but the position of the geometry of the municipal boundary does not change.

The land register parish is a historical division and is only updated if there are errors. Districts are only updated if changes in the division are decided.

Availability

Our geodata services are normally available 24/7 and we provide support during working hours. Read more about availability to geodata services.

Documentation

Different versions of the services can overlap, so pay attention to which version you use. Version history describes the changes that occurred at each update.

Version history
Version and date Change since previous version

Version 2.0.1

Uppdated
2023-03-16

 

The service includes the option to search for geometries without enclaves.

Version 2.0

Updated
2019-01-31

The service has received REST interface and support for coordinate transformations

Version 1.0

Discontinued 2019-08-28

The first version.

Technical framework and standard for direct access services

Our direct access services are primarily based on standards from the World Wide Webb Consortium (3WC) och The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

World Wide Webb Consortiums website (new window)
The Open Geospatial website Consortium (new window)

The service interfaces are REST based where object types are in many cases built using GML (Geography Markup Language) or JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to describe its geographical properties.

The services are of the nature 'question-answer' where the consumer (user's system) sends a service call with search terms or selection parameters over the Internet and receives a list with one or more geographical objects in response.

To quickly get started and test the services before they are integrated into a separate system, a tool such as Postman can be used as a tool for testing REST-based Webservices.

Postman's website (new window)

Do you want deeper technical information about our geodata products you can read the product documentation.

Our geodata products with API:s require that you have an application or software capable of managing the services. To view real property information or maps directly in your browser, you can use Lantmäteriet's e-services.

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Order product

You can order geodata products directly from us or from one of our resellers.

Order from Lantmäteriet

If you want to order directly from us at Lantmäteriet you should use the Order form.

To use our geodata products, you need a license for use.

In the order form, you can both order geodata products and apply for a license agreement.

Order from resellers

If you need help with ordering our geodata products or get a customized solution for your business, you can contact one of our geodata resellers.

Copyright and publication

Read more about what applies when you want to publish the Land Survey's maps, aerial photographs and other geographical information.

API-portal

In the API portal you, as a user of Lantmäteriet's direct access services, you can among other things, manage access keys for the services you have access to.

As a logged in user, you can view and manage the services you have access to, as well as create access keys and access groups.

The API portal is available for both production environment and verification environment for our direct access services. You log into the respective environment's API Portal to manage services and permissions for that environment.

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