Name: Land cover 2024
Creator: Aarhus University / Gregor Levin
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Documentation

Publisher: Aarhus University / Gregor Levin
Geographic coverage: Denmark; municipal totals within the 98 complete DAGI municipality boundaries
Temporal coverage: 2024
Coordinate reference system: EPSG:25832
Geometry: Polygon and MultiPolygon
Terms: CC BY 4.0 ↗

Edition overview

Last documented: 2026-09-18

Technical detailsFor developers and reproducibility

The release ID precisely identifies this published edition. The SHA-256 fingerprint changes when the normalized dataset content changes and can be used for troubleshooting and verification.

Internal release ID: basemap05-2024:515927a7c23dad7ad79d27a95b51eb654b0d4f603643ddfee3b9f411605a6989:96991dd68ff71301faf390e7dbbbf1c50649646a1b358a9a43a405ae0cb633f1
Content fingerprint (SHA-256): 515927a7c23dad7ad79d27a95b51eb654b0d4f603643ddfee3b9f411605a6989

Use the data yourself

CC BY 4.0 · You may copy, adapt and share the data, including commercially. Credit the source, link the licence and describe your changes.

Attribution: Aarhus University / Gregor Levin, Basemap05 (2024), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22197260. Levin (2025), DCE Technical Report 363. CC BY 4.0. Grouping, polygonisation, display reprojection and area summaries by OpenLandData. · basemap05-2024

AU requires credit and a reference to Levin (2025), DCE Technical Report 363. OpenLandData groups classes, polygonises raster cells, reprojects display data and calculates area composition. The data cannot be used for legally binding land-use decisions.

Terms reviewed: 2026-09-14. Processing and calculations: openlanddata.

Access to data

Open in the mapLand cover 2024 Open the original authority sourceAarhus University / Gregor Levin

Technical access with PMTilesURL for software that supports HTTP Range

The map archive requires HTTP Range. Use HEAD for file information and bounded GET requests of at most 2 MiB, for example Range: bytes=0-16383. This URL does not support whole-file browser downloads.

PMTiles URL

https://openlanddata.com/tiles/production/datasets/basemap05-2024/515927a7c23dad7ad79d27a95b51eb654b0d4f603643ddfee3b9f411605a6989/96991dd68ff71301faf390e7dbbbf1c50649646a1b358a9a43a405ae0cb633f1/data.pmtiles

Select and copy the URL into your mapping software.

Map representation release ID: basemap05-2024:515927a7c23dad7ad79d27a95b51eb654b0d4f603643ddfee3b9f411605a6989:96991dd68ff71301faf390e7dbbbf1c50649646a1b358a9a43a405ae0cb633f1

PMTiles is a map representation with geometry that depends on zoom level. Use the export tool or authority source for analysis with source geometry. The source identity is listed under Technical details.

Dataset fields

ecosystemCode

Ecosystem class

The source code for a detailed land-cover type, such as coniferous forest or a lake.

groupId

Land-cover category

The broader map category, such as forest or farmland. Each location counts only once in the composition.

mappedAreaHa

Whole derived patch area

The whole connected area of the same land-cover type, including any part outside the map view. Calculated from 10-metre cells before dividing the area for map display.

Limitations and responsibility

The reference year combines sources of differing dates. Groups describe mapped classes, not protection or ecological condition. Derived patches are connected raster cells, not cadastral parcels or fields. Municipal shares use the entire boundary area including water, unclassified and unavailable coverage. These are not official Statistics Denmark area accounts. Cannot be used for legally binding land-use decisions. The report's 62 categories and 1,880 combinations differ from the distributed tables' 60 and 1,874; the reason is undocumented.