VBORIS 2014: Soil Benchmark Plots for Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis

Zonal soil benchmarks with descriptive features for soil benchmark plots in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The data was published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and has a reference date of 01 January 2014. It is available as a Web Map Service (WMS).

Use Cases

• Map soil benchmark zones based on the descriptive features mentioned in the description
• Analyze soil characteristics for agricultural suitability in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
• Integrate soil benchmark data with other geospatial layers for environmental modeling

Strengths

• Data has a specific reference date of 01 January 2014, providing a temporal snapshot.
• The dataset is provided by the authoritative Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the single district of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

Reference date 01.01.2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany