Basic Registration Topography (BRT): Small-Scale Topographic Map of Amsterdam

Amsterdam's small-scale topographic data, designed for visualization at a scale of 1:10,000 and usable between 1:25,000 and 1:2,500. The dataset includes features like courtyard gardens, street names, business parks, public greenery, and fallow areas, and serves as a basis for administrative tools. It is published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Visualizing urban land use based on described components like business parks and public greenery.
• Creating administrative reference maps for local governance based on the 'card behind the mayor' use case.
• Analyzing built-up area boundaries for traffic regulation based on Road Traffic Act data mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Explicitly designed for a specific cartographic scale (1:10,000) with a defined usable range.
• Includes detailed urban components for Amsterdam, such as courtyard gardens and street names.
• Published under a permissive public domain license (CC0-1.0).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Amsterdam, Netherlands