BORIS 2012: Zonal Soil Guide Values for Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis

Zonal soil guide values with descriptive characteristics for the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The dataset was published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and has a reference date of 01.01.2012. It is available as a Web Map Service (WMS) layer.

Use Cases

• Assess agricultural land suitability based on zonal soil guide values.
• Plan regional land management strategies based on soil characteristics.
• Conduct environmental impact studies using spatially referenced soil data.

Strengths

• Data is geospatially referenced via a WMS service, enabling map-based analysis.
• The dataset has a specific reference date of 01.01.2012, providing a temporal snapshot.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

Reference date 01.01.2012

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany