Planning Instructions for Soil Protection in Germany, 2015

Planning instructions for soil protection at the block and block-section level in Germany. The data is provided as a Web Feature Service (WFS) by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie. It represents the state of planning instructions as of 2015.

Use Cases

• Assess soil protection regulations for specific land parcels based on the block-section planning instructions.
• Integrate soil protection planning constraints into broader environmental impact assessments.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of soil protection zones for regional planning purposes.
• Model land-use suitability by overlaying soil protection instructions with other geospatial data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative national mapping agency, Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie.
• Planning instructions are defined at a detailed block- and block-section level.
• The data is available in a standardized, interoperable Web Feature Service (WFS) format.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

2015

Geography

Germany