Provincial Environment Regulation 2015 — Silence area (history)

A 2015 regulation adopted by the Provincial Executive of Drenthe on September 23, 2015. The dataset contains designated silence areas where specific rules, prohibitions, and exemptions apply to prevent or reduce noise pollution. It is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a public domain license.

Use Cases

• Map designated quiet zones for urban planning based on the described silence areas.
• Analyze regulatory boundaries for noise pollution control based on the described prohibitions and exemptions.
• Integrate policy-defined areas with other environmental datasets based on the geospatial nature suggested by the file formats.

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific legal regulation adopted on a known date (23 September 2015).
• Includes geospatial information, as indicated by the PNG map file format.
• Published under a public domain license (CC-PDM-1.0), allowing broad reuse.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely derived from the official Provincial Environment Regulation (map A).

Time Range

Regulation adopted in 2015.

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Province of Drenthe, Netherlands.