Historical Soil Threatening Activities and Maps for Utrecht

Utrecht, Netherlands, contains historical geospatial maps detailing soil-threatening activities that may lead to contamination. The dataset includes layers for bomb craters, fuel tanks, nuisance law data, historical activities, and watercourses, provided in ESRI SHAPE format. It was published by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaan en Koninkrijksrelaties under a CC0-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify potential soil contamination sources based on historical bomb crater locations.
• Analyze land use changes and environmental risks based on historical activity data from 2005.
• Model groundwater and contamination pathways using historical altitude groundwater (isohypses) and watercourse data.
• Assess regulatory compliance and historical nuisance based on company data from the Nuisance Law (Hinderwet) layers.

Strengths

• Includes 13 distinct thematic layers covering diverse historical factors like bomb craters, fuel tanks, and cadastral maps.
• Data is provided in the standard ESRI SHAPE geospatial format.
• Published under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• The description states the data is not exhaustive and the historical archive has been partially lost.
• Row count and last update date are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Compiled from historical maps, aerial photo interpretation, cadastral records, and literature.

Time Range

Includes historical records such as a cadastral map from 1832 and literature from 1700.

Freshness

Most maps are static and no longer modified; only fuel tanks and historical activity layers can still be updated.

Geography

Utrecht, Netherlands.