Urban Area Boundaries for the Province of Groningen Under Environmental Ordinance

A geospatial dataset defines the urban area as specified in the Environmental Ordinance of the Province of Groningen. The urban area includes building systems for housing, services, business, retail, hospitality, and associated public facilities, greenery, water, and infrastructure. The dataset is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark license.

Use Cases

• Assess land-use compliance based on the defined urban building system.
• Plan infrastructure development based on the mapped urban area boundaries.
• Model environmental impact based on the regulated urban greenery and water features.
• Analyze zoning for housing, business, and services based on the ordinance's classification.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from an authoritative government ministry.
• The dataset has a clear, public domain license (CC-PDM-1.0).
• The description provides a specific legal and geographic context (Province of Groningen).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Province of Groningen, Netherlands