WMS Landscape Plans: Archived Land Use Plans for Kreis Wesel

WMS Landscape Plans archived Kreis Wesel is a Web Map Service (WMS) providing geospatial layers of land use plans based on the XPlanung standard. The service is provided via the xPlanBox software and is sourced from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie. It shows only lost plans, and objects with references to other files can be queried via GetFeatureInfo.

Use Cases

• Visualizing historical land use changes based on archived landscape plans.
• Querying detailed plan attributes for specific geographic features using the GetFeatureInfo function.
• Integrating plan data with other geospatial datasets via the WMS standard.

Strengths

• Based on the standardized XPlanung data model for land use planning.
• Provides queryable attributes and references to other files via GetFeatureInfo.
• Service source code is openly available under the GNU AGPLv3 license.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after access.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Provided as a WMS service via the xPlanBox software.

Geography

Kreis Wesel, Germany