Nature experience on the road - condition 2019

"Nature experience on the road" gives an impression of the content of "green blue" in a neighborhood, seen from the road. This can be used for different purposes. First, as a citizen, you can use them to discover the most pleasant route between two points. This way you can plan the greenest (and often healthiest) route to school for your child. Please note that the map does not take accessibility into account. This can help local authorities to get an idea of which green spaces can best be accessed to complete a green trajectory. This map only makes a statement about the green-blue, so not about other factors that can make a route pleasant or unpleasant (traffic congestion, safety, quality of the road surface, beautiful buildings, ...). The map shows the percentage of green-blue (high green, low green, agriculture and water) in a radius of 20 meters around a road. The greenish blue around the road is, as it were, assigned to the road itself. In this way, the map gives an indication of the green-blue experience at each location located on a road in Flanders. The analysis is made on the basis of the Green Map Flanders (for high green, low green and agriculture), the Large-scale Reference File (GRB) for entity Water, and the Road Register. All these geodata layers are openly available via Geopunt. The same value is attributed to high greenery, low greenery, agriculture and water. The calculation also does not take into account the layout of the road itself (paved or unpaved). For more details on the creation of this product, see the technical report 'Poelmans Lien, Janssen Liliane, Vranckx Stijn (2022), Nature experience on the road - Technical description. Study commissioned by the Flemish Environmental Planning Bureau.' which can be found under https://www.researchportal.be/en/publication/nature experience-on-the-road-technical-description