Safety Zone 2 Areas for Provincial Roads in Groningen, Netherlands

A geospatial dataset defining Safety Zone 2 areas of influence along provincial roads in the Province of Groningen, Netherlands. The zones are established by the provincial Environmental Ordinance to manage place-related risks. The dataset is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark license.

Use Cases

• Mapping land-use restrictions based on defined safety zone boundaries.
• Assessing place-related risk (PR max) exposure for properties near provincial roads.
• Planning infrastructure development while complying with provincial environmental regulations.
• Visualizing the spatial extent of regulatory zones for public communication.

Strengths

• Data is defined by a formal legal instrument, the Environmental Ordinance of the Province of Groningen.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (JPEG, WMS, WFS) for different use cases.
• Published under a permissive CC-PDM-1.0 license, allowing broad reuse.

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

Legally defined and likely digitized from regulatory documents.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Province of Groningen, Netherlands