Provisional municipal border reference file, situation 17/08/2017 — correction

The Preliminary Reference Register of Municipal Borders contains information on the demarcations of the territory of the administrative units in the Flemish Region: Municipalities, administrative districts, Provinces and the Flemish Region. Furthermore, this dataset contains meta-information on the origin of the geometry of the municipal borders.The preliminary reference file of municipal boundaries serves as a geometric and object reference for the administrative divisions in Flanders.The best available information is used to build the geometry of the municipal boundaries. In many cases, the geometry of the adp’s (administrative plots) of the GRB (Groootscale Reference File) has been used, unless there are better-defined geometric information (e.g. lists of coordinates published in the Belgian Official Gazette for the determination of borders).The regional and national borders of the Flemish Region, drawn up by AAPD (General Administration of Patrimonium Documentation, Federal Public Service Finance) on the basis of the various available sources were integrated into this version.The geometry of the border with the Netherlands is defined in the framework of a number of border commissions. The geometry of the national border with the Netherlands is therefore officially fixed.The geometry of the border with France was not formally validated with France, however AAPD assumes that it will no longer change.The geometry of the border with the Brussels and Walloon regions still needs to be validated finally, however, any changes will be limited to very local adaptations.