Maps of NUTS and LAU subdivisions in Germany

This project's goal is to prepare publicly available Open Data to be easily used in your web based mapping projects.

Structure of data

• NUTS: Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics Wikipedia
  Consist of three levels:

  • NUTS 1 countries
  • NUTS 2
    • federal countries (German: Bundesländer Wikipedia)
    • Regierungsbezirk (German - a subdivision of some of the federal countries Wikipedia)
  • NUTS 3 districts (German: Kreise Wikipedia)

  These levels are subdivisions of each other.

• LAU: Local Administrative Units
  A subdivision of the NUTS 3 level. This corresponds to municipalities and communes (German: Gemeinden Wikipedia).

LAU

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/local-administrative-units
File: EU-28-LAU-2019-NUTS-2016.xlsx https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/345175/501971/EU-28-LAU-2019-NUTS-2016.xlsx

Converted to: germany-LAU-2019.csv (manually)

LAU - Geo Data

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/lau
File: LAU-2018-01M-SH.zip https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/GISCO/geodatafiles/LAU-2018-01M-SH.zip

Inspect the shape file:

$ ogrinfo -so -al LAU_2018.shp
$ dbview LAU_2018.dbf | head -12
$ dbview -b -d ',' -t LAU_2018.dbf | grep DE_ | head -10
$ mapshaper LAU_2018.shp -calc 'count()' where='GISCO_ID.startsWith("DE")'
[calc] count() where GISCO_ID.startsWith("DE"):  11119

Converted to: germany-LAU-2019.topo.json using command:

$ mapshaper LAU_2018.shp -filter 'GISCO_ID.startsWith("DE")' -proj merc -o germany-LAU-2019.topo.json format=topojson

Copyright

For NUTS and LAU data:
EN: © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries

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