Geospatial data delineating water protection and sanitation zones in Vienna, Austria. The dataset is published by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It is derived from legal provisions including Paragraph 34(1) and (2) of the WRG 1959 and a related ordinance.
Use Cases
- Map legal water protection boundaries based on the described legal ordinances.
- Analyze land-use restrictions around water sources based on the described conservation areas.
- Integrate protected zone data into environmental impact assessments based on the described sanitation areas.
Strengths
- Available in multiple geospatial formats including KML, GML, and ESRI SHAPE, facilitating use in various GIS tools.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and adaptation.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich
- Collection Method
- Likely digitized from official legal and regulatory documents.
- Geography
- Vienna, Austria