Wooded Areas in Zuidelijk Westerkwartier Under Provincial Environmental Ordinance

A geospatial dataset defining the Houtsingel wooded area in the Zuidelijk Westerkwartier region as established by the Environmental Ordinance of the Province of Groningen. The data likely contains polygons or features representing areas with a closed or small-scale open character formed by bushes, wood rings, woodwalls, and hawthorn hedges. The dataset is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark license.

Use Cases

• Map and analyze the distribution of small-scale wooded landscape features based on the described presence of bushes and hedges.
• Assess compliance with provincial environmental regulations for the Zuidelijk Westerkwartier area.
• Model landscape connectivity or habitat corridors based on the described network of wood rings and woodwalls.
• Integrate with other land-use datasets to study the interaction between regulatory zones and agricultural or urban areas.

Strengths

• Data is defined by a formal provincial Environmental Ordinance, providing a legal basis.
• The description specifies the landscape character (closed/small-scale open) and constituent features (bushes, wood rings, woodwalls, hedges).
• Available via standardized geospatial service protocols (WMS, WFS) for integration.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Legally established and likely digitized from provincial ordinance maps.

Time Range

null

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Zuidelijk Westerkwartier, Province of Groningen, Netherlands