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All Administrative Order Units are stored in separate layers. Their Attributes are stored in the Geometry tables A0, A1,...A9. Each Administrative Area Feature of a specific order has its own Feature Code. For each record, the table contains references to all the higher-level Codes of the Administrative Areas that contain the Administrative Area in question. The structure of a specific table, then, depends on the Administrative Order that it is for. See the Administrative Areas section of the Shapefile Format Specification document for details.
Because of the importance of the municipality and sub-municipality level for daily reference and map display on different zoom levels, Order 8 and Order 9 contain three additional Attributes: POPCLASS, POP and CITYCENTER. See the Administrative Areas section of the MultiNet Shapefile Format Specification document for details.
Census Places are in the Administrative Place (AP) table.
See also Administrative Areas earlier in this user guide.
Order a0, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7, a8, a9
At least 10 levels of Administrative Orders are defined for each country. The highest level, Order 0, is always the Country, which is made up of all lower-level units. Order 8 is also always present. The name of this level and the extension of its units are country dependent. Order 8 is the lowest level that covers the whole territory of the country. It is especially important because many Relations between Features and the Order 8 Administrative Areas are made in the TomTom® database.
The intermediate orders from 1 to 7 and the lowest level, Order 9, may or may not be used, depending on a country's political hierarchy. See the Release Notes document for each country's Administrative Order.
See also Administrative Boundaries and Shorelines later on in this user guide to see how Administrative Areas are defined in coastal areas.
ai
Relations towards the Index Areas are built based on MultiNet® relationship 9204.
ol
This table links the Administrative Area Order feature IDs to the Official Language of that Administrative Area.
ae
| ADMINISTRATIVE AREA | ATTRIBUTE TYPE (ATTTYP) | DESCRIPTION | ATTRIBUTE VALUE (ATTVALUE) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative Areas (1111...1119) | 9M | Major Road Feature | 1 |
| Major Road Stubble | 2 | ||
| 2M | Tourist Municipality | 1 | |
| 3D | Left Side Driving | 1 | |
| Right Side Driving | 2 | ||
| 2N | Artificial | 1 |
bl
The Boundary Lines geometry file represents the dividing outline of two Administrative Areas or the boundary of an Administrative Place. Boundary lines for politically disputed borders are also defined in some areas. The Boundary Line layer is also useful in defining coastlines where Administrative Areas are displayed with a buffered shoreline.
See also Administrative Boundaries and Shorelines later in this user guide to see how Boundary Lines might be used.
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The Administrative Area Structure Definition table contains the definition of a certain Administrative Order level, e.g., "Municipality" for Administrative Order 8 Area, FEATTYP 1119. The definition is defined per country and can be listed for multiple languages.
axas, axav
These two tables provide information associating sign colors (text color, background color and border color) with specific countries.
Simple Attributes are also stored in the *as and *av tables.