Charente-Maritime, a department in France, is the geographic scope for this dataset of municipal boundaries. It represents the boundaries of municipalities that were merged and covered by different planning documents at the time of the merger. The dataset was published by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) and was last updated on September 17, 2021.
Use Cases
- Analyze historical municipal mergers based on the described boundary changes.
- Map the jurisdiction of different planning documents based on the described coverage.
- Conduct spatial analysis for regional development projects based on the administrative boundaries.
Strengths
- Boundaries are linked to specific planning documents, providing legal context.
- Data originates from the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), a French public institution.
- Last update date (2021-09-17) is explicitly provided.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Freshness
- Last updated 2021-09-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Charente-Maritime, France