Monuments Addresses and Contours: Municipal and National Monuments in Utrecht

Monuments Addresses and Contours WFS is a Web Feature Service providing addresses and building contours for municipal and national monuments in Utrecht, Netherlands. The data is published by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties under a CC-BY-SA-4.0 license. It includes point data for monument addresses and polygon data for building contours, with fields for categories, monument numbers, and types.

Use Cases

• Mapping the spatial distribution of historical monuments based on point and polygon layers.
• Linking monument records to an official national register using the provided monument number field.
• Analyzing urban heritage density and zoning based on CBS category and monument type classifications.
• Integrating monument data into desktop or web GIS applications for visualization and analysis.

Strengths

• Provides direct links to the official Dutch monument register for each record.
• Includes both point (address) and polygon (contour) data layers for spatial analysis.
• Contains specific fields for categorization, such as CBS_CATEGORY and MONUMENTTYPE.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely compiled from municipal and national monument registers.

Time Range

null

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Utrecht, Netherlands