VBORIS RLP Premium Service 2020: Zonal Soil Benchmarks for Rhein-Lahn-Kreis

Zonal soil benchmarks with descriptive features for agricultural plots in the Rhine-Lahn district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The data was published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and has a cut-off date of January 1, 2020. It is served via a Web Map Service (WMS) format.

Use Cases

• Assess soil quality for agricultural planning based on zonal benchmark features.
• Map regional soil characteristics for environmental studies based on descriptive plot features.
• Support land-use decision-making for farmers and policymakers based on standardized soil data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the official German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy.
• The dataset has a specific geographic focus on the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis district.
• A precise cut-off date of 01.01.2020 is provided for the data snapshot.

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 eu_open_data.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

Cut-off date 01.01.2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-24 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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