Urban And Village Areas For Housing Plans And Space Regulation, 2014

Existing urban and village areas as defined for the 2014 Space Regulation by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The dataset is also used for housing plans. The data is provided under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze land-use patterns for urban and village areas based on the spatial definitions.
• Support housing plan development based on the designated settlement areas.
• Validate compliance with the 2014 Space Regulation based on the official geographic boundaries.

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific government regulation (2014 Space Regulation), providing a formal definition.
• Serves a dual purpose for both regulation and housing planning, indicating official use.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely derived from official spatial planning and cartographic sources.

Time Range

2014

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Likely the Netherlands, based on the authoring organization.