Vertical geometry reference
verticalGeometryeEstimatedAccuracyUoM: /*Value of verticalGeometryEstimatedAccuracy has to be given in meters.*/
horizontalGeometryeEstimatedAccuracyUoM: /*Value of horizontalGeometryEstimatedAccuracy has to be given in meters.*/
geometryType: /*Type of geometry has to be GM_Point or GM_Surface*/
Element of the building that was captured by vertical coordinates.
EXAMPLES: Danish Register of Dwellings, Spanish Cadastre.
Information system name
The name of the external information system.
Date of event
beginning is before anyPoint is before end: /* beginning is before anyPoint is before end.*/
atLeastOneEvent: /*At least, one of the attributes beginning, end or anyPoint shall be supplied.*/
This data type includes the different possible ways to define the date of an event.
Building geometry 2D
verticalGeometryEstimatedAccuracyUoMIsMetre: /* The Value of verticalGeometryEstimatedAccuracy has to be given in meters.*/
referenceGeometry: /*For exactly one item of BuildingGeometry, the value of the attribute referenceGeometry shall be 'true'.*/
horizontalGeometryEstimatedAccuracyUoMIsMetre: /* The value of horizontalGeometryEstimatedAccuracy shall be given in meters. */
geometryIsPointOrSurfaceOrMultiSurface: /*Geometry shall be of type GM_Point or GM_Surface or GM_MultiSurface.*/
This data types includes the geometry of the building and metadata information about which element of the building was captured and how.
External reference
Reference to an external information system containing any piece of information related to the spatial object.
EXAMPLE: The height of the building has been captured up to the top of building.
Height reference
highReferenceValue: /*highReferenceValue="entrancePoint" or "generalRoofEdge" or "lowestRoofEdge" or "highestRoofEdge" or "generalEave" or "lowestEave" or "highestEave" or "general Roof" or "topOfBuilding" or "highestPoint"*/
Element used as the high reference.
NOTE 1: A BuildingPart is homogeneous related to its physical, functional or temporal aspects. NOTE 2: Building and BuildingPart share the same set of properties. EXAMPLE: A building may be composed of two building parts having different heights above ground.
Building part
A BuildingPart is a sub-division of a Building that might be considered itself as a building.
Elevation reference
Element where the elevation was measured.
Date of demolition
Date of demolition.
EXAMPLES: functional, projected, ruin
Condition of construction
Status of the construction.
NOTE: This mean value may come from quality measures on a homogeneous population of buildings or from an estimation based on the knowledge of the production processes and of their accuracy.
Vertical geometry estimated accuracy
The estimated absolute positional accuracy of the Z coordinates of the building geometry, in the INSPIRE official Coordinate Reference System. Absolute positional accuracy is defined as the mean value of the positional uncertainties for a set of positions where the positional uncertainties are defined as the distance between a measured position and what is considered as the corresponding true position.
Geometry
2D or 2.5D geometric representation
Building base
The base application schema for INSPIRE theme buildings.
A dwelling is a residential unit which may consist of one or several rooms designed for the occupation of households. NOTE: In the data sets including building units, a dwelling is a residential building unit or, only when that building has no building units, a residential building. EXAMPLES: a single building dwelling could be a detached or semi-detached house. A block of flats will contain multiple dwellings determined by the number of individual flats.
Number of dwellings
Number of dwellings.
Building
A Building is an enclosed construction above and/or underground, used or intended for the shelter of humans, animals or things or for the production of economic goods. A building refers to any structure permanently constructed or erected on its site.
Value
valueUoM: /* Value shall be given in metres*/
Value of the height above ground.
EXAMPLE: the height of the building has been captured from its the lowest ground point.
Low reference
lowReference: /*lowReference="generalGround" or "lowestGroundPoint" or "highestGroundPoint"*/
Element as the low reference.
NOTE 1: In case of multiple representation by point and by surface, it is generally recommended to provide the surface as reference geometry. NOTE 2: The geometric representation whose referenceGeometry is true may also be used preferably for spatial queries by download services (WFS) or by Geographical Information System (GIS).
Reference geometry
The geometry to be taken into account by view services, for portrayal.
Height above ground
valueUoMIsMetre: /* Value shall be in meters. */
Vertical distance (measured or estimated) between a low reference and a high reference.
Elevation
This data types includes the elevation value itself and information on how this elevation was measured.
The optional spatial object types that may be added to core profiles are described in the extended profiles. The ones inheriting from the attributes of AbstractConstruction are Installation and OtherConstruction.
Abstract construction
Abstract spatial object type grouping the semantic properties of buildings, building parts and of some optional spatial object types that may be added in order to provide more information about the theme Buildings.
EXAMPLES: Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Sacrada Familia
Name
Name of the construction.
Number of floors above ground
Number of floors above ground.
EXAMPLE 1: Reference to another spatial data set containing another view on buildings; the externalReference may be used for instance to ensure consistency between 2D and 3D representations of the same buildings EXAMPLE 2: Reference to cadastral or dwelling register. The reference to this register may enable to find legal information related to the building, such as the owner(s) or valuation criteria (e.g. type of heating, toilet, kitchen) EXAMPLE 3: Reference to the system recording the building permits. The reference to the building permits may be used to find detailed information about the building physical and temporal aspects.
Any point
A date and time of any point of the event, between its beginning and its end.
EXAMPLE: trade
Current use
The current use.
NOTE: This reference will act as a foreign key to implement the association between the spatial object in the INSPIRE data set and in the external information system. EXAMPLE: The cadastral reference of a given building in the national cadastral register.
Reference
Thematic identifier of the spatial object or of any piece of information related to the spatial object.
Date of construction
Date of construction.
Horizontal geometry reference
Element of the building that was captured by (X,Y) coordinates.
NOTE: The percentage of use is generally the percentage of floor area dedicated to this given use. If it is not the case, it is recommended to explain what the percentage refers to in metadata (template for additional information) EXAMPLE: 30 (if 30% of the building is occupied by trade activity).
Percentage
The proportion of the real world object, given as a percentage, devoted to this current use.
Source: adapted from the definition given in the data specification of the theme Elevation.
Vertically-constrained dimensional property consisting of an absolute measure referenced to a well-defined surface which is commonly taken as origin (geoïd, water level, etc.).
End
Date and time when the event ended.
Building units are spatial objects aimed at subdividing buildings and/or building parts into smaller parts that are treated as seperate entities in daily life. A building unit is homogeneous, regarding management aspects. EXAMPLES: It may be e.g. an apartment in a condominium, a terraced house, or a shop inside a shopping arcade. NOTE 1: According to national regulations, a building unit may be a flat, a cellar, a garage or set of a flat, a cellar and a garage. NOTE 2: According to national regulation, a building that is one entity for daily life (typically, a single family house) may be considered as a Building composed of one BuildingUnit or as a Building composed of zero BuildingUnit.
Number of building units
Number of building units in the building. A BuildingUnit is a subdivision of Building with its own lockable access from the outside or from a common area (i.e. not from another BuildingUnit), which is atomic, functionally independent, and may be separately sold, rented out, inherited, etc.
Abstract building
Abstract spatial object type grouping the common semantic properties of the spatial object types Building and BuildingPart.
percentageSum: The total of all percentages shall be less or equal to 100.
This data type enables to detail the current use(s).
elevation value
valueUoM: /'Value of Elevation has to be given in metre.*/
Value of the elevation.
This attribute focuses on the physical aspect of the building; however, this physical aspect is often expressed as a function (e.g. stadium, silo, windmill); this attribute aims to fulfil mainly mapping purposes and addresses only specific, noticeable buildings.
Building nature
Characteristic of the building that makes it generally of interest for mappings applications. The characteristic may be related to the physical aspect and/or to the function of the building.
NOTE: . This attribute aims to fulfill management requirements, such as computation of population or spatial planning ; this classification aims to be exhaustive for the functional buildings hosting human activities.
Activity hosted within the building. This attribute addresses mainly the buildings hosting human activities.
Status
The way the height has been captured.
Information system
Uniform Resource Identifier of the external information system.
Date of last major renovation
Date of last major renovation.
A building may be a simple building (with no BuildingPart) or a composed building (with several BuildingParts).
The building parts composing the Building.
Beginning
Date and time when the event begun.
NOTE: height above ground may be defined as the difference between elevation at a low reference (ground level) and elevation as a high reference (e.g. roof level, top of construction)
heightAboveGround: /*unit of heightAboveground must be metre*/
Height above ground.
Horizontal geometry estimated accuracy
The estimated absolute positional accuracy of the (X,Y) coordinates of the building geometry, in the INSPIRE official Coordinate Reference System. Absolute positional accuracy is defined as the mean value of the positional uncertainties for a set of positions where the positional uncertainties are defined as the distance between a measured position and what is considered as the corresponding true position.