Regional Division ELY Areas 2013 (Scale 1:4,500,000) - Dataset Table
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The table is part of a dataset collection that represents the 'ELY-areas 2013' (Centers for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment in Finland) at a scale of 1:4 500 000. The data has been sourced from the Statistics Finland website ('Tilastokeskus') based in Finland. The table contains various columns, each providing unique information about the ELY areas. The columns contain data such as the extraction date of the data row, the row number, geographical information in the form of GeoJSON and GeoText, the type of geometry represented (i.e., MultiPolygon), the centroid of the geometry, the X and Y coordinates of the center of the geometry, a unique identifier, a GML ID, and the name of the ELY area in three languages - English, Swedish, and Finnish. There are specific columns that contain the date when the data was extracted and the row number, which together uniquely identify each row. All geographical coordinates are based on the WGS 84 coordinate reference system, with the longitude presented first, followed by the latitude. This table could be utilized for geospatial data analytics such as analyzing the distribution of ELY areas across Finland, identifying the center point of each area, and correlating it with other data such as population or economic indicators for comprehensive regional analysis.
Field Descriptions
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Data type |
Description |
| _extract_date | date | This column indicates the date when the data on the row was extracted from the data source. It provides an understanding of the currency of the data. |
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| _row_number | long | This column represents the row number in the data extracted from the source on the extract date specified by the column '_extract_date'. This, in combination with '_extract_date', uniquely identifies each row. |
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| ely | string | This column contains a coded representation of different regions in Finland. |
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| geom_geojson | string | This column contains the geometric representation of the region in GeoJSON format, a popular format for encoding a variety of geographic data structures. |
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| geom_geotext | string | This column provides the geometric representation of the region in text format. |
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| geom_type | string | This column specifies the type of the geometric data. |
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| geom_centroid | string | This column contains the central point of the geometric shape representing the region. |
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| geom_center_x | double | This column represents the X-coordinate of the central point of the geometric shape. |
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| geom_center_y | double | This column represents the Y-coordinate of the central point of the geometric shape. |
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| gid | long | This column contains a unique identifier for each row in the table. |
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| gml_id | string | This column contains a unique identifier for each geographical feature in the table. |
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| name | string | This column contains the English names of different regions in Finland. |
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| namn | string | This column contains the names of different regions in Finland in another language, possibly Swedish. |
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| nimi | string | This column contains the names of different regions in Finland in Finnish language. |
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| vuosi | long | This column indicates the year to which the data pertains. For example, data extracted in 2013. |
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