INSPIRE Sea Regions: Harmonized Coastal Features from Dutch Topography

INSPIRE-harmonized geospatial data for sea regions, produced and maintained by the Dutch Kadaster. The dataset includes features such as Sea, Shoreline, Coastline, and Intertidal area, derived from the national TOP10NL topographic registry. It is published by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark license.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal erosion and accretion based on Shoreline and Coastline features.
• Mapping intertidal zones for ecological studies based on the Intertidal area feature.
• Integrating maritime boundaries for marine spatial planning based on Sea region definitions.
• Creating base maps for nautical charts based on harmonized topographic objects.

Strengths

• Data is harmonized to the INSPIRE European spatial data infrastructure standards.
• Features are derived from the authoritative Dutch national topographic registry (TOP10NL/BRT).
• Published under a permissive CC-PDM-1.0 license, allowing broad reuse.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Kadaster (the Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry, and Mapping Agency)

Collection Method

Produced and managed by Kadaster, filled with relevant objects from the TOP10NL topographic database.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Likely covers sea regions relevant to the Netherlands.