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Layer 1: Context

1.1. Administrative boundaries

You should have a good understanding of how administrative boundaries are defined within your city. That generally means that you should find out how your country is subdivided. Countries are often subdivided into provinces, states, or departments, which can then be broken down even further. Cities are often a specific administrative entities that form part of a bigger set. We encourage you to locate the national subdivisions first, and to try and locate the shapefiles of each of the administrative levels within the country. Loading the boundaries for all subdivisions within your country will make it much easier to aggregate up or scale down national data in the system. If you are unsure what the official subdivision in your country is and which entity manages these boundaries, we suggest you look at Wikipedia, where "Administrative divisions in COUNTRYNAME" often yields good results. See an example here.

Before you start looking for this, check to make sure we don't already have data for your country. See the existing subdivisions here. NOTE: you do not need to look for shapefiles of the country itself as all national boundaries have already been loaded into our system.

Inventory

Title Type Author(s) Year
Canton Geneva Shapefile SITG - Le territoire Genevoise à la carte Nicole Wiedmann 2020 Add image
Canton Geneva by municipalities Shapefile SITG - Le territoire Genevoise à la carte Nicole Wiedmann 2020 Add image
Geneva City Shapefile SITG - Le territoire Genevoise à la carte Nicole Wiedmann 2020 Add image
Geneva and Canton Geneva in Grand Geneva context Image Nicole Wiedmann 2020
Grand Geneva by municipalities Shapefile SITG - Le territoire Genevoise à la carte Nicole Wiedmann 2020 Add image

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Discussion and questions


Hi Paul,
when I upload new files here on the platform, I can just tag them in the folder “Geneva”, and I cannot select the specific administrative boundary.
Then, when I upload a processed file, if I had write “Genève” in the excel column “Reference space”, I can select the right administrative boundary between the three “Genève space” that the program know are related to Geneva City, Canton Geneva and Grand Geneva.
Neverthless, some processed files contain information for two administrative boundaries, for example, data on vehicles’ stock available in the same table for Canton Geneva and Geneva City, but when I upload them, I can select only one linked boundary. What would you recommend me to do ?
Thanks a lot ! :-)


Hi Paul,
I'm sorry, I just realised that my question above about linking the processed data to a refrence space will be solved when the different polygons of a shapefile will be seen as a unique reference space (in my case creating new reference spaces Geneva City, Canton Geneva, Grand Geneva), as you explain me there.


Anyway, stepping back, when I upload new files here on the platform, I can just tag them in the folder “Geneva”, and I cannot select the specific administrative boundary corresponding to my dataset's geographical level. Would it be possible to tag already the documents uploaded, not just in the folder Geneva, but also to the correct administrative boundary?


Many thanks!


Thank you!


Hi Paul,
can you allow me to re process the shapefile of "Canton Geneva municipalities" and "Grand Geneva municipalities"?
There are some municipalities that have the same name and need to be cosidered as a single reference space..
Thanks a lot! :-)


Can you send me the links Nicole?


Yes sorry, I let you the links here below with the ones for Lausanne as well :
- Grand Geneva municipalities
- Canton Geneva municipalities
- Lausanne City
- Lausanne Region municipalities
- Canton Vaud municipalities

THANK YOU! :-)


OK perfect - you can now re-process them.

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