WFS XPlanung BPL ‘Borderway’: Urban Development Plan for Urbach

WFS XPlanung BPL ‘Borderway’ is a Web Feature Service (WFS) providing the legally binding development plan 'Grenzweg' for the municipality of Urbach. The plan contains stipulations for urban development order and is developed from the land use plan. The dataset is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and was last updated on July 8, 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze legally binding urban development stipulations based on the plan's regulations.
• Model land-use transitions based on the relationship between development plans and overarching land-use plans.
• Integrate municipal planning boundaries into regional GIS systems based on the geospatial service format.

Strengths

• Data is provided via a standardized WFS service, which suggests interoperability with GIS software.
• The dataset was last updated on July 8, 2025, indicating recent maintenance.
• The description specifies the plan's legal purpose and its derivation from a higher-level land-use plan.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total data size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single municipality in Germany.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Likely published as part of the XPlanung 5.0 standard for urban planning data.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-07-08 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Municipality of Urbach, Germany