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Maps and coordinate systems

This page explains which reference systems Boden uses and which map products you can order.

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Please note that all forms, digital applications (e-services) and some linked websites are currently in Swedish. Contact Citizen Service if you need help in English.

Coordinate systems in Boden

The physical planning unit maintains and produces map products such as the base map and the address map. These products are not municipality-wide; they mainly cover the central locality, the river valley and parts of the municipality’s villages. Coverage varies by product.
Most material is stored in databases or as digital files and is updated continuously. This makes it easier for the customer to choose area, scale and the map information needed. Based on the map databases, applications using a geographic information system can be created for analyses and presentations of geographic information.

WebGIS Boden – interactive map

The map service contains parts of the municipality’s map data to make it easy to find places in the municipality. It includes search functions for addresses, properties, streets and also places and facilities of interest to visitors and residents.

Why coordinates?

Coordinates ensure everyone using maps and measurement data relies on the same references. A unified reference system simplifies the use and exchange of geographic information, reduces errors during crises and supports satellite-based technology such as the GPS.

Our systems: Sweref 99 21 45 and RH2000

Boden uses Sweref 99 21 45 for position and RH2000 for height. Sweref 99 is Sweden’s version of the European Terrestrial Reference System 1989. For nationwide geographic information, the cartographic projection Sweref 99 Transverse Mercator is used.

What Sweref 99 21 45 coordinates look like

  • The X axis (Northing) is written with seven integer digits and denoted N.
  • The Y axis (Easting) is written with six integer digits and denoted E.

Example: Town Hall in Sweref 99 21 45: N 7 303 417, E 147 211.

Who is affected?

All municipal geographic information is delivered in Sweref 99 21 45, and height information is delivered in RH2000. As a developer or consultant, you must submit material to the municipality in the same systems.

Map products and services

What it is: The municipality’s large-scale map showing ground conditions in detail with high positional accuracy.

Use: Detailed planning, design, basis for new building maps and visualisation. Used extensively in the municipality’s geographic information system.

Content: Property boundaries and designations, streets, foot and cycle paths, buildings, fences, trees, light poles and more. Heights as contours and spot heights.

Source: Aerial photography from about eight hundred metres with stereoscopic processing and field surveying. Outside the central locality: flights from about two thousand three hundred metres, with additional surveying where needed.

Accuracy: Planimetric 0,1 to 1 metres. Height 0,2 to 1,5 metres.

Recommended scale: 1:100 to 1:2000.

Currency: Updated continuously; mapping and surveying when needed.

Coverage: Available in the central locality, along the river valley and in certain villages such as Brännberg, Harads, Bodträskfors, Gunnarsbyn, Sörbyn, Vittjärv, Svartlå and Bredåker.

Delivery: Any area, scale and content. Delivered on paper or digitally.

Use: Basis for design for building permits for new construction or similar.

Accuracy: Based on the base map; additional surveying when needed.

Currency: Shows current property records, base map and boundaries of the detailed development plan.

Scale: 1:500 to 1:1000.

Content: Current planning conditions, property boundaries, water and sewer network (possibly district heating), buildings, streets and roads, and height information.

What it shows: Addresses and street names for the urban areas and larger villages in Boden Municipality.

Product: Scale 1:5000. Format slightly larger than A2, forty-five map sheets, two index sheets and three overviews. Spiral-bound booklet.

Print year: 2008. Individual sheets are updated and contain current addresses.

Prices: Printed map 1,800 SEK. Printout of a single sheet from the database 100 SEK per sheet.

Use: Locating addresses and street names in Boden Municipality.

Currency: Map base updated continuously.

Scale and content: Scale 1:5000. Includes addresses, street names and property designations.

Contact: For sales, please contact Analysis GIS/MBK via Citizen Service.

Purpose: Provides access to the municipal control network for external users so they can retrieve information about available control points whenever they need.

Content: The municipality’s surveyed height benchmarks and the polygon points used when transitioning to the current coordinate system. National Land Survey control points are also included.

Systems: Sweref 99 21 45 and RH2000.

Access: Open map

Use: A tool for anyone considering installing solar panels.

How it works: Zoom in and select a roof. Roof areas are shown in three colours indicating levels of solar radiation. Shading from trees, vegetation and snow is not included. Chimneys and shading from other buildings are partly considered.

Note: The solar map is based on entire property roofs, not addresses. If you live in a terraced house or semi-detached house, you need to know what portion of the roof belongs to your property to estimate solar energy production correctly.

Access: Open map

What it shows: Development of the built environment by comparing today’s landscape with aerial photos from the late nineteen-fifties.

Source: Aerial photos from the National Land Survey’s archives that are now open data.

Access: Open map

Do you want to access a specific document? Contact Citizen Service, and we will help you retrieve and read the full document.

Contact

Citizen Service

E-mail: kommunen@boden.se

Phone: +46 921 620 00