Provincial Roads in Groningen from the Environmental Ordinance

Groningen province's road network is defined in this dataset, which contains existing provincial roads as laid down in the provincial Environmental Ordinance. The data is administered by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties and is intended to support accessibility and safety. The dataset is available in geospatial formats including WFS and WMS.

Use Cases

• Map provincial road infrastructure based on the legal definitions in the Environmental Ordinance.
• Analyze regional connectivity and accessibility based on the described road network.
• Integrate legal road corridors into environmental or land-use planning models.

Strengths

• Data is defined by a legal ordinance, providing an official administrative source.
• Available in standard geospatial service formats (WFS, WMS) for interoperability.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Administratively defined as part of the provincial Environmental Ordinance.

Geography

Province of Groningen, Netherlands