social, technical and economic conditions and forms one piece of Stockholm history’’ (Översiktsplan, 1999 Stockholm, 2000, p. 99[author’s translation]). This UPM material is unique in its scope and ambition and is a good example of a classification and map of an urban area with a strong Telic dimension. As such, the planning material is a good basis for any urban remote sensing methodology that attempts to replicate this information. Therefore,Stockholm is a preferred area in which to test the WICS method’s ability to transform the Formal dimension (a per-pixel-based classified remote sensing image), with the help of the Constitutive dimension (the WICS method’s distance to class analysis), into the Telic dimension (a dataset corresponding to independently produced planning material).