VBORIS 2018: Soil Benchmark Plots for Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate

Zonal soil benchmarks with descriptive features for benchmark plots in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The dataset was published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and has a reference date of January 1, 2018. It is available as a Web Map Service (WMS) layer.

Use Cases

• Urban planning assessments based on soil benchmark plot features.
• Environmental impact studies based on zonal soil characteristics.
• Land-use suitability modeling based on soil benchmark data.
• Geospatial analysis of soil properties for the city of Mainz.

Strengths

• Data has a specific reference date (01.01.2018) providing a temporal anchor.
• Spatial coverage is clearly defined for the city of Mainz.
• Data originates from a national authoritative source (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 a single city.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

Reference date 01.01.2018

Freshness

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

Geography

City of Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany