Hydrography Download Service

The product contains hydrographic objects with additional information covering entire Sweden as well as a geometrical and a logical network. The information in the product meets the requirements for INSPIREs dataspecification for hydrography and the Swedish water standard SS637008:2015. The product name in Swedish is Hydrografi Nedladdning.

About this product

The product contains hydrographic objects with additional information covering entire Sweden as well as a geometrical and a logical network. Where main drainage basins extend across national boundaries, information with limited cross-border content is included. The information in the product meets the requirements for INSPIREs dataspecification for hydrography and the Swedish water standard SS637008:2015.

Important to know

Consider the following before ordering the product:

  • To use this product, you need to pay a fee and sign a license agreement with terms for usage.
  • This product provides access to information that you order, download and store yourself.
  • You need a system or an application to use this product. It has an application programming interface (API) and cannot be used directly in an Internet browser.
  • The technical solution of this download product consists of an atom feed. Different kinds of clients can read the feed. Web browsers can generally not read the feed without some kind of plug-in installed.

Maintenance and update frequency

The product is updated once every year.

Documentation

The documentation for Hydrography Download Service in Dokumentation geodataprodukter (in Swedish, new window).

Services that meet the INSPIRE specifications are available free of charge on www.geodata.se/geodataportalen (new window). There you can also find detailed information about the services. On the INSPIRE website (new window), you can read the implementing rules that form the basis for our INSPIRE services.

Version history
Version and date

Changes compared with previous version

Version 1.1

Available in verification environment:
2023-11-29.

Available in production environment:
2023-11-29.

The change does not result in a new access point or version.

All areas are updated.

The boundaries of the coastal areas, previously presented as closing lines, have been removed.

In the Inspire theme, the names of watercourse surfaces have been placed on
centre lines in the surfaces, the same way as in the Swedish water standard.

Minor error corrections.

Demo data

Download the desired demo files directly from the product links on this page or go to bundled demo data (new window) alternatively collected demo data on the FTP site (new window).

Testdataområde Emån

The demo file below contains compressed gml files with:

  • physical water according to Inspire
  • physical water according to Swedish water standard
  • geometric network according to Inspire
  • logical network according to Swedish water standard.

Download the demo file (zip, 53,8 MB).

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