Historic Streets and Gravel Roads of the Netherlands from 1850

Historic street and gravel road networks in the Netherlands, as they were documented on the Topographic and Military Map in 1850. The dataset is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a CC-PDM-1.0 license. It is available in geospatial service formats including WFS, PNG, and WMS.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical transportation network density and connectivity based on the 1850 road map.
• Study urban and rural development patterns by comparing 1850 road layouts with modern infrastructure.
• Train models for historical map feature recognition based on the provided PNG image format.
• Create historical basemaps for geographic information systems using the WFS or WMS service layers.

Strengths

• Provides a specific historical snapshot from a single year (1850).
• Originates from an authoritative, named source map (the Topographic and Military Map).
• Is published under a permissive public domain dedication license (CC-PDM-1.0).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total 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

Digitized from the historical Topographic and Military Map (TMK).

Time Range

1850

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Netherlands