National Park Drentsche Aa: Legislative Boundaries for the Groningen Province

Legislative boundaries for the Groningen portion of the National Landscape Drentsche Aa, as defined in the province's Environmental Ordinance. The dataset likely contains geospatial data delineating the protected area, which is described as a village and road village landscape with open stream valleys, grasslands, and forests. The data is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a public domain license.

Use Cases

• Mapping protected landscape boundaries based on the legislative decree mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing land-use regulations for stream valleys and peatlands based on the described environmental rules.
• Assessing the spatial cohesion of forests, heathland, and agricultural areas as referenced in the description.

Strengths

• Based on a formal legislative decree (Environmental Ordinance), providing legal authority.
• Covers a specific, described landscape type of villages, stream valleys, and forests.
• Available in standard geospatial web service formats (WFS, WMS) for interoperability.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are 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

Legislatively defined boundaries from a provincial Environmental Ordinance.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Groningen province, Netherlands (approximately five percent of the National Landscape Drentsche Aa).