kartläggs

Kartläggs is the present passive form of the Swedish verb kartlägga, meaning to map, chart, or inventory a phenomenon, location, or data. The suffix -s creates the passive voice, so kartläggs translates roughly to "is mapped" or "is being mapped" in English. In Swedish, the passive form often emphasizes the process or outcome rather than the actor, and it is common in formal and technical writing.

Used across disciplines, kartläggs appears in contexts such as geography, ecology, archaeology, public health, urban planning, and information systems. It denotes systematic collection and organization of information about a subject, typically resulting in a map, catalog, or dataset. The agent performing the mapping is sometimes omitted or specified later with an av-phrase, as in "kartläggs av forskare" (is mapped by researchers).

Grammatically, kartläggs is the present tense for the passive; the corresponding active form is kartlägger. The noun form is kartläggning (mapping, survey) and the related verb forms include kartlägga (to map) and kartläggande (mapping as a present participle/adjective). The term is common in project descriptions and scientific reports to describe ongoing data collection and synthesis.

Related terms include kartläggning (mapping, survey), inventering (inventory), and undersökning (investigation). These terms are used to describe similar activities in research, planning, and policy contexts.