Natura 2000 protected areas in Vienna designated under the EU Birds Directive as Special Protection Areas (SPAs). The dataset is published by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The legal basis includes the Vienna Nature Conservation Act and Council Directive 79/409/EEC.
Use Cases
- Map and analyze the spatial distribution of bird conservation zones based on the described SPA designations.
- Assess compliance with the EU Birds Directive for environmental impact studies based on the described legal framework.
- Integrate protected area boundaries into urban planning and biodiversity monitoring systems based on the geospatial nature of the data.
Strengths
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.
- Data is based on specific legal instruments: the Vienna Nature Conservation Act and EU Council Directive 79/409/EEC.
- Available in multiple geospatial formats including ESRI SHAPE, KML, and GeoJSON, suggesting interoperability.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and total size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich
- Collection Method
- Publication based on the Vienna Environmental Information Act and Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information.
- Geography
- Vienna, Austria