Nature Management Plan 2021: Agricultural Subsidy Areas in Drenthe

The Nature Management Plan 2021 dataset from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations outlines areas eligible for nature subsidies under the SNL scheme. The data likely contains geospatial boundaries for agricultural nature and landscape management zones in the province of Drenthe, linked to subsidy packages. It was established under a scheme effective from 1 January 2010.

Use Cases

• Mapping eligible agricultural nature management zones based on the described search areas.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution of subsidy packages (SN packages) for landscape management.
• Planning changes in land function or quality impulses for nature-agricultural areas.
• Integrating subsidy area boundaries with other land-use or environmental datasets.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats (WFS, PNG, WMS).
• Has a clear public domain license (CC-PDM-1.0).
• Originates from an authoritative government organization (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely created by the province of Drenthe based on the SNL subsidy scheme.

Time Range

Scheme effective from 1 January 2010; plan year is 2021.

Freshness

Last updated is unknown.

Geography

Province of Drenthe, Netherlands.