Flood Risk Prevention Plan for Tournecoupe, Gers Department, France

A geospatial dataset representing the flood risk prevention plan for the municipality of Tournecoupe in the Gers department of France. The data conforms to the COVADIS standard for digital storage of geographical data in risk prevention plans, which were established under French law in 1995. The dataset was last updated on September 24, 2020.

Use Cases

• Delineating flood hazard zones for land-use planning based on the described risk prevention plan.
• Modeling environmental risk exposure for infrastructure projects based on the geographical data standard.
• Supporting civil security and major risk prevention initiatives as referenced in the legal framework.
• Integrating standardized municipal risk data into regional or national environmental databases.

Strengths

• Data follows the standardized COVADIS specification for risk prevention plans, ensuring technical interoperability.
• Based on a legal framework (the Act of 2 February 1995) providing a formal basis for the risk assessment.
• Last update timestamp (2020-09-24) provides a known reference point for data currency.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality, file formats, and size require manual inspection after download.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2020-09-24; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Collection Method

Developed by the French State under the responsibility of the Prefect, following the COVADIS data standard.

Time Range

The plan is based on legislation from 1995, with a dataset update in 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2020-09-24 00:00:00

Geography

Municipality of Tournecoupe in the Gers department, France.