SearchAreaWater 2025: Agricultural Subsidy Boundaries for Water Areas

SearchAreaWater 2025 is a dataset from the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations defining the limitation of the agricultural search area category 'water' for subsidizing agricultural nature management. The dataset was adopted on 25 June 2024 and is available via WFS, PNG, and WMS formats under a CC-PDM-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Delineating subsidy-eligible water areas for agricultural nature management based on the described policy limitation.
• Creating maps for compliance and auditing of agricultural subsidy claims related to water areas.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution of water areas designated for nature management support.

Strengths

• Dataset has a specific adoption date (25 June 2024).
• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats (WFS, PNG, WMS).
• License is clearly specified as CC-PDM-1.0.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely an official policy or administrative boundary definition.

Time Range

Adopted 2024.

Freshness

Adopted 25 June 2024, but last update status is unknown.

Geography

Likely the Netherlands, inferred from the authoring ministry.