VBORIS RLP: Zonal Soil Guide Values for Rhineland-Palatinate, 2026

Zonal soil guide values for agricultural land in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, with a reference date of January 1, 2026. The dataset is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and was last updated in March 2026. It is served via a Web Map Service (WMS) format, indicating it is likely a map layer for visualization.

Use Cases

• Regional agricultural planning based on zonal soil guide values.
• Land suitability assessment for different crops based on generalized soil characteristics.
• Creating thematic maps for environmental or agricultural reports based on the WMS service.

Strengths

• Data has a specific reference date of 01.01.2026, providing temporal context.
• Spatial coverage is explicitly defined for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
• Data originates from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, a national mapping agency.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description notes a lack of further descriptive characteristics for the soil guide value plots.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

Reference date 2026-01-01

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany