Archaeological Policy and Landscape Forecast Map for Assen Municipality

Landschaps_ and archaeological forecast map under the archaeological value and expectation map with policy recommendations of Assen. The dataset was created by authors S. van der Veen and T.J. ten Anscher for the municipality of Assen, with a version dated 24-04-2020 and project code ASBA6. It is published by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Planning land development based on archaeological value and expectation maps.
• Conducting landscape analysis for archaeological forecasting.
• Informing municipal policy recommendations for heritage conservation.
• Integrating geospatial archaeological data into GIS systems for research.

Strengths

• Includes policy recommendations, linking data directly to municipal decision-making.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (KML, ESRI SHAPE, CSV, JSON) for interoperability.
• Has a clear version date (24-04-2020) and project code (ASBA6) for traceability.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Municipality of Assen, created by S. van der Veen and T.J. ten Anscher.

Collection Method

Likely contains maps and forecasts generated from archaeological and landscape analysis.

Time Range

Version dated 24-04-2020; temporal coverage of underlying data is unspecified.

Freshness

Version date is 24-04-2020; last update is unknown.

Geography

Municipality of Assen, Netherlands.