The Var Coastal Trail dataset from 2017 describes a pedestrian path designed to provide access to the Mediterranean shoreline. BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES compiled this record, which was last updated in January 2020. It details the trail's route, its varying legal status across public and private lands, and categorizes sections as pedestrian-open, under study, or inaccessible.
Use Cases
- Mapping public access to the coastline based on the described pedestrian-open pathway.
- Analyzing land-use conflicts based on the trail's sections of different legal nature (public domain, private property).
- Planning coastal conservation corridors based on the delineation of accessible and inaccessible coastline segments.
- Assessing public infrastructure inventory based on the categorization of trail sections.
Strengths
- Provides a specific geographic focus on the Var coastal region.
- Includes a temporal snapshot from the year 2017.
- Describes a multi-faceted legal and physical structure for the trail.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Last updated 2020-01-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Time Range
- 2017
- Freshness
- Last updated 2020-01-13 00:00:00
- Geography
- Var region, France (coastal Mediterranean)