Naming scheme

Scope

This is what content the map data contains. Currently we focus on these 2 scopes:

• Country (Norway).
• City (Oslo).

Geogranularity

This is the geographic granularity, which defines the border of county, municipality and ward.

• County (fylke) is equivalent to NUTS3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Unit level 3).
• Municip (kommune) is equivalent to LAU2 (Local Administrative Unit level 2).
• Ward (bydel) is an administrative region within a large municipality.
• xxx: only used for plotting position_title (see example).

Type

The type of the data object to distinguish whether it’s a geographical map or coordinate for label positions. - Map: Map data. - Position geolabels: Geographical coordinates for the position of labels, e.g. “county03” or “Oslo”. - Position title (insert oslo): Geographical coordinate for position of title. So far it’s only for layout: insert_oslo. (see example)

Border

Due to recent redistricting, there exist multiple versions of county borders. We provide maps that match the borders in the following years:

• 2024: The current border, this map contains 15 counties.
• 2020: Border before redistricting in 2024. This map contains 11 counties.
• 2019: Border before redistricting in 2020. This map contains 18 counties.
• 2017: Border before redistricting in 2018. This map contains 19 counties.

More information on counties in Norway can be found here.

Layout

Map layout, see this section for examples.

R class

R class for the map object.

• data.table: applicable for maps and label/title coordinates.
• sf: simple feature for spatial vector data. More on sf.