BORIS RLP Premium Service 2010: Zonal Soil Benchmarks for Kaiserslautern

Zonal soil benchmarks with descriptive features for benchmark plots in Kaiserslautern, Germany, as of January 1, 2010. The data is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and is accessible via the WMS format. It covers Rhineland-Palatinate, though currently excludes the city of Koblenz.

Use Cases

• Mapping soil characteristics based on zonal benchmark data.
• Analyzing land suitability for agriculture or construction using descriptive soil features.
• Conducting environmental impact studies using georeferenced soil quality data.

Strengths

• Data has a specific reference date of 01.01.2010, providing a temporal snapshot.
• Spatial coverage is defined for Rhineland-Palatinate, with a specific mention of Kaiserslautern.
• Data is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, a national mapping agency.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

Reference date 01.01.2010

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-23 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany