Topographic map (vector)
National Land Survey's Topographic map in vector format is a dataset depicting the terrain of all of Finland. The most important elements are the road network, administrative borders, preservation areas, population centres, geographic names, waterways, land use and elevation.
The largest scale level (1:100,000) of the Topographic map in vector format is produced by generalising from the Topographic database. Topographic map 1:250,000 is produced by generalising the dataset 1:100,000. Topographic map 1:1,000,000 is produced by generalising the dataset 1:250,000. Topographic map 1:4,500,000 is produced by generalising the dataset 1:1,000,000. The geographic names have been generalised from the geographic names in the Geographic Names Register to map names suited to the scale in question. The administrative borders in the Municipal Division of each scale are used as administrative borders.
The product belongs to the open data of the National Land Survey of Finland.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-02-02
- Citation identifier
- FI / 1001106
- Purpose
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The Topographic map in vector format can be used for the production of other map products, e.g. approach maps or maps on a regional or national level.
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Land Survey of Finland
Owner
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Maintenance note
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The products in scales 1:100,000, 1:250,000, 1:1,000,000 and 1:4,500,000 are published once a year in July. Administrative borders, protected areas and firing ranges are updated annually. The road network is updated every 1‒2 years. Topographic areas of human activity are updated every 2 years. Other map layers are updated every 2‒10 years. The products include geographic names. The updating status of all map layers of the products can be seen in the maintenance table:
Maintenance of Topographic map 1:100,000 (in Finnish)
Maintenance of Topographic map 1:250,000 (in Finnish)
Maintenance of Topographic map 1:1,000,000 (in Finnish)
Maintenance of Topographic map 1:4,500,000 (in Finnish)
The status of the separate geographic names product has been described in the product description of Geographic names.
The product is available from the NLS MapSite's Download geospatial data -section according to the above-described updating rhythm.
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Land Survey of Finland
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Elevation
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Geographical names
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Buildings
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Sea regions
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Transport networks
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Land cover
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Hydrography
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Paikkatietohakemiston asiasanasto
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Not-Inspire
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avoindata.fi
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Other constraints
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The copyright and the other immaterial rights on the Topographic map (vektor) are owned by the National Land Survey of Finland. The product is maintained by using data from the municipalities. The Finnish Environment Institute and the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency have the copyright on the route information used in creating the Topographic map (vektor). In addition, the Finnish Environment Institute has the copyright on the depth contour data used in Topographic map (vektor). The data material is not confidential. Public access to the material is not restricted by the INSPIRE Directive. Mention the name of the Licensor (the National Land Survey of Finland), the name of the dataset(s) and the time when the National Land Survey has delivered the dataset(s) (e.g.: contains data from the National Land Survey of Finland Topographic Database 06/2014).
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 100000
- Denominator
- 250000
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Denominator
- 4500000
- Language
- Finnish
- Language
- Swedish
- Language
- sme
- Language
- smn
- Language
- sms
- Character set
- 8859 Part 10
- Character set
- 8859 Part 15
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Location
- Boundaries
- Transportation
- Inland waters
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- Topology level
- Full surface graph
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1.0
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Land Survey of Finland
- Transfer size
- 1000
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://asiointi.maanmittauslaitos.fi/karttapaikka/tiedostopalvelu/maastokartta_vektori MapSite Download geospatial data section
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Komission asetus (EU) N:o 1089/2010, annettu 23 päivänä marraskuuta 2010, Euroopan parlamentin ja neuvoston direktiivin 2007/2/EY täytäntöönpanosta paikkatietoaineistojen ja -palvelujen yhteentoimivuuden osalta
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-01-07
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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Topographic map (vector) 1:100,000
Topographic map (vector) 1:100 000 is produced by generalising from the National Land Survey's Topographic database and the Map names 1:100,000 version of the product Geographic names. The yearly updating data for the administrative borders are obtained from the dataset Municipal Division 1:100,000.
The National Land Survey's "Quality control of small-scale map databases" is applied to the quality control of Topographic map (vector) 1:100,000.
See the latest quality control report (in Finnish).
http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/sites/default/files/M100laatutarkastus.pdf
Topographic map (vector) 1:250,000
Topographic map (vector) 1:250 000 is produced by generalising the dataset Topographic map (vector) 1:100,000 and the Map names 1:250,000 version of the product Geographic names. The yearly updating data for the administrative borders are obtained from the dataset Municipal Division 1:250,000.
The National Land Survey's "Quality control of small-scale map databases" is applied to the quality control of Topographic map (vector) 1:250,000.
See the latest quality control report (in Finnish)
http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/sites/default/files/m250_laatutarkastus.pdf
Topographic map (vector) 1:1,000,000
Topographic map 1:1,000 000 is produced by generalising the dataset Topographic map (vector) 1:250,000 and the Map names 1:1,000,000 version of the product Geographic names.
Topographic map (vector) 1:4,500,000
Topographic map (vector) 1:4,500 000 is produced by generalising the dataset Topographic map (vector) 1:1,000,000 and the Map names 1:4,500,000 version of the product Geographic names.
- Included with dataset
- No
- Title
- Tietosisältö
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-05-11
- Other citation details
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Topographic map (vector) 1:100,000
Includes the following elements:
• Traffic network
• Cable connections
• Buildings and population centres
• Geographic names
• Administrative borders
• Elevation
• Waterways
• Fields
• Other terrain
• Protected features
• Special use areas
A more precise data content can be found in the Data model (in Finnish):
Object codes of elements:
Topographic map (vector) 1:250,000
Includes the following elements:
• Traffic network
• Cable connections
• Buildings and population centres
• Geographic names
• Administrative borders
• Elevation
• Waterways
• Fields
• Other terrain
• Protected features
• Special use areas
A more precise data content can be found in the Data model (in Finnish):
Object codes of elements:
Topographic map (vector) 1:1,000,000
Includes the following elements:
• Traffic network
• Cable connections
• Buildings and population centres
• Geographic names
• Administrative borders
• Elevation
• Waterways
• Fields
• Protected areas
• Other terrain
• Special use areas
A more precise data content can be found in the Data model (in Finnish):
Object codes of elements:
Topographic map (vector) 1:4,500,000
Includes the following elements:
• Traffic network
• Population centres
• Geographic names
• Administrative borders
• Elevation
• Waterways
A more precise data content can be found in the Data model (in Finnish):
Object codes of elements:
- File identifier
- 7e491d51-9227-48b3-8d61-3bdbef49f37f XML
- Metadata language
- Finnish
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Hierarchy level name
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Aineisto
- Date stamp
- 2026-02-05T12:31:22
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Land Survey of Finland
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding Swedish UTF-8 English UTF-8 Finnish UTF8
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