Digital soil map of the Flemish Region: phases

Map layer with the phases of digital vectorial dataset of the analog Soil Map of Belgium for the territory of Flanders. All map elements of the analog maps (published on map scale 1: 20 000) have been carefully digitised manually and coded according to the classification system used: morphogenetic for inland Flanders (substrate, texture class, drainage class, profile development group, phase and variant) and geomorphological for the Coastal Region (substrate, series, subseries, type, subtype and variant). The digital version of the soil map has been checked almost systematically compared to the analogue soil maps. The polygons were coloured as on the analogue bottom map. Where available, the general characteristics (Van Ranst E. and Sys C., 2000) and photographs of a representative soil profile and representative environments are presented for each soil type. Finally, for each polygon there is the possibility to call up the scan of the analogue bottom map sheet, the explanatory booklet and the base maps on a scale of 1:5000. For visualization purposes, this dataset is divided into 5 map layers when published in the soil explorer: soil types, substrates, phases, parent material variants and profile development. The map layer with the bottom types also contains all the attributes of the other map layers. The soil map was updated in June 2017 with some military domains and a uni-soil type for the classification of the sea-olders and several errors were corrected.