Land use - Flanders - state 2019

This map shows the actual land use for each 10m cell within the Flemish Region, for reference year 2019. The concept of ‘land use’ refers to the actual use of the land for defined human activities such as housing, industry and services, recreation, ... or crops, such as arable farming, grass cultivation, ... or natural vegetation , such as forest, scrub, ... The actual land use of a location is of course not necessarily identical with the legal-planological destination of this location. Land can be intended as a residential area, but effectively used as grassland or arable land. This map does not contain any information about the planning destination. The actual land use, as shown on this map, has been compiled on the basis of the 4 data levels of the '2019 land use file'. In particular, this is done by combining and aggregating a number of categories from the different data levels of this land use database. This geodata layer was replaced in 2023 by a revised version for condition 2019, in order to remain in line with the revised methodology used in the state 2022 format. For more details about the creation of the underlying 'land use file' (with 4 data levels) and the composition of this resulting land use map, please refer to the technical report 'Poelmans Lien, Janssen Liliane, Hambsch Lorenz (2023), Land use and land take in Flanders, state 2022, carried out on behalf of the Flemish Planning Bureau for the Environment', which can be found at https://archief.onderzoek.omgeving.vlaanderen.be/Research-6426438