The Netherlands is covered by the Basic Registration Large-Scale Topography (BGT), a uniform topographic object file. It is designed for multiple uses by government bodies and other users, meeting described quality aspects for completeness, topicality, and accuracy. The dataset is published under a CC-BY license by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.
Use Cases
- Urban planning and development analysis based on building and road data.
- Environmental impact studies based on watercourse and forest information.
- Infrastructure network modeling based on road and railway object data.
- Land use classification and mapping based on the categorized topographic objects.
Strengths
- Uniform content and quality across the entire country of the Netherlands.
- Designed for multiple uses by various government source holders and other users.
- Explicitly meets described quality aspects for completeness, topicality, and accuracy.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY license, enabling public reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Netherlands