Diver lines are tube-shaped constructions designed to connect surface waters while interrupting the watercourse bottom, unlike bridges. The dataset, provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, defines these structures and includes a data element for counting identical adjoining diver tubes. It is available under a public domain license.
Use Cases
- Mapping hydraulic infrastructure networks based on the described diver line locations.
- Analyzing water connectivity and flow patterns based on the passageway function of divers.
- Counting and aggregating identical hydraulic structures using the 'Number of identical diver tubes' data element.
- Distinguishing between bridge and diver constructions for infrastructure classification.
Strengths
- Data is provided under a CC0-1.0 public domain license, allowing unrestricted use.
- Available in multiple geospatial and tabular formats including KML, ESRI SHAPE, CSV, and JSON.
- Includes a specific data element for handling groups of identical structures, which suggests structured metadata.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Likely the Netherlands, based on the organization and use of the Aquo standard.