Shapefiles and geojson files for Stockholm's stadsdelar/districts

This repository contains the geodata files you need to create visualisations of Stockholm like this choropleth map:

Source: https://krasch.io/hyreskartan

The data is based on the "Stadskarta" dataset released on the Stockholm open data portal under CC0 license (last updated: 2021-04-13) [details]

I am also releasing this data under CC0 license.

Disambiguation

Swedish	English	Explanation / examples
Stadsdelsområde	Borough	Larger administrative unit, e.g. Rinkeby-Kista
Stadsdel	District	Smaller administrative unit, part of a Stadsdelsområde, e.g. Rinkeby, Akalla, Husby, Kista, Hansta
Vatten	Water	Baltic sea, lakes, rivers

Stockholm currently has 13 stadsdelsområden containing in total 117 stadsdelar.

File overview

Format

Folder	Explanation
shapefiles	ESRI-Shapefile format, coordinate system=SWEREF99 (same as original files)
geojson	geojson format, coordinate system=CRS84

Versions

Subfolder	Explanation
fullsize	Same detail level as the original data
simplified	Smaller file size, achieved by running ST_SIMPLIFY with tolerance=3

Files

Filename	Explanation	Screenshot
stadsdelar.*	Boundaries of the stadsdelar including the water areas, 1 polygon per stadsdel
vatten.*	Boundaries of all the water areas, merged together into 1 (multi-)polygon
stadsdelar_utan_vatten.*	Boundaries of the stadsdelar with the water areas removed, 1 polygon per stadsdel

Generating the files

In most cases, you should just go ahead and use the pre-generated files that I am supplying in the "shapefiles" and "geojson" folders. Use the following instructions if you want to generate the files on your own.

These instructions are valid for the 2021-04-13 release of the data in the open data portal. Previous releases used rather different directory layouts (and future versions might, too...)

Prerequisites

• gdal

Getting the data

Navigate to the root folder of this repository. Then run the following commands:

wget https://dataportalen.stockholm.se/dataportalen/Data/Stadsbyggnadskontoret/SHP_utanfastigheter_nya_granser.zip
unzip SHP_utanfastigheter_nya_granser.zip
mv SHP_utanfastigheter_nya_grДnser SHP_utanfastigheter_nya_gränser 

Check that everything is setup up correctly:

ogrinfo data.vrt.xml

Should output:

INFO: Open of `data.vrt.xml'
      using driver `OGR_VRT' successful.
1: vatten
2: stadsdelar (Polygon)

Fixing one label in "Adm_area.shp"

There is a bug in the official file. The stadsdel that should be labeled "VASASTADEN" is actually labeled with "HÄSSELBY GÅRD".

There is no automatic fix for this (I hope the bug is temporary). So you need to open ArcGIS / QGIS to manually put the correct label.

Running the script

(you might have to make some adapations if you are on Windows)

./generate.sh

Footnotes

Open data portal

Unfortunately it is not possible to directly link to the dataset page in the open data portal. Here is how you can find it:

1. Go to https://dataportalen.stockholm.se/
2. Type "stadskartan" into the search, there will be multiple results
3. Scroll down to the item shown in the screenshot below