PLU/POS: French Municipal Land Use and Planning Documents

COVADIS data standard provides a technical framework for dematerializing French local planning documents into an interoperable spatial database. The standard, developed by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and based on 2012 CNIG specifications, covers graphic zoning plans, superimposed requirements, and area-specific regulations. It was last updated on 2021-09-17.

Use Cases

• Analyze zoning regulations based on the described graphic zoning plans and area-specific rules.
• Build interoperable GIS tools for urban planning based on the described technical framework for dematerialized data.
• Standardize municipal land use data storage based on the COVADIS data structure recommendations.

Strengths

• Based on the 2012 CNIG specifications for dematerializing urban planning documents, providing a formal technical foundation.
• Covers multiple aspects of planning documents including graphic plans, requirements, and regulations, as described.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2021-09-17; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Collection Method

Dematerialization of local planning documents (LDPs/POS/PLU) into a spatial database following the COVADIS standard.

Freshness

Last updated 2021-09-17 00:00:00

Geography

Municipality of Vouzeron, France