Municipal Street Tree Inventory for Oss, Netherlands

A geospatial dataset of solitary street and avenue trees owned by the Municipality of Oss. It includes information on tree species, planting year, policy status, ownership, and neighborhood location. The data is provided by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze species distribution and age structure based on tree species and planting year data.
• Identify protected or monumental trees for conservation planning based on policy status.
• Map tree ownership and administrative responsibility for asset management based on owner and administrator fields.
• Assess neighborhood-level green coverage and planning based on location information.

Strengths

• Includes multiple attributes per tree: species names, planting year, policy status, and location.
• Specifically focuses on municipal street and avenue trees, providing clear scope.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Excludes trees in forest plantations or forests, limiting its scope to urban street trees.
• Row count and last update date are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Municipal inventory, likely from municipal management records.

Time Range

Planting years for individual trees are included, but overall dataset temporal coverage is unspecified.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Municipality of Oss, Netherlands.