Protected Zones Around Weeds and Weed Villages in Groningen Province

A geospatial dataset defining protected zones around weeds and weed villages as established by the Environmental Ordinance of the Province of Groningen. The data is published by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties under a CC-PDM-1.0 license. The last update date is unknown.

Use Cases

• Mapping protected environmental zones based on the defined weed and weed village areas.
• Assessing regulatory compliance for land development based on the rules in the Environmental Ordinance.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of protected visibility areas for weeds and weed villages.
• Integrating provincial environmental zoning into regional planning GIS systems.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a formal provincial Environmental Ordinance, providing a legal basis.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (JPEG, WMS, WFS) for different use cases.
• Published under a permissive public domain license (CC-PDM-1.0).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely digitized from legal ordinance maps.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Province of Groningen, Netherlands