Nature Management Plan 2019: Subsidy Eligibility Map for Drenthe Province

Subsidie System Nature and Landscape Management (SNL) scheme maps from 2010 define areas eligible for nature subsidies in the Dutch province of Drenthe. The data originates from the Nature Management Plan 2019, created by the province under the authority of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. It is licensed for public use under the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.

Use Cases

• Mapping potential nature subsidy (SN package) areas based on the described management plan.
• Analyzing changes in land function for agricultural nature management from 2010 onward.
• Integrating search areas for agricultural nature and landscape management into regional planning models.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a public domain license (CC-PDM-1.0), allowing broad reuse.
• Originates from an authoritative government organization (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties).
• File formats include PNG, suggesting a visual, map-based representation of the data.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely created by the province of Drenthe as part of its formal Nature Management Plan.

Time Range

Plan year is 2019, with scheme rules effective from 1 January 2010.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown; the plan is based on a scheme effective from 2010.

Geography

Province of Drenthe, Netherlands.