BRP Gewaspercelen (Agricultural Crop Parcels)
Every agricultural parcel in the Netherlands — 2,331,498 polygons — with its registered crop type, from the Basisregistratie Gewaspercelen (BRP). This is the 2025 definitive edition, finalized after verification by RVO (Netherlands Enterprise Agency). The BRP is an annual snapshot reflecting what farmers register each May 15 for Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidy applications.
AI/Agent users: See llms.txt for field descriptions, query examples, and usage tips.
Spatial Coverage
- Bounding Box: [3.21, 50.73, 7.24, 53.58] (all agricultural land in the Netherlands)
Temporal Coverage
- Snapshot date: 2025-05-15 (CAP registration deadline)
- Edition: Definitief (finalized after verification)
Schema
Category Distribution
Map Styles
Four pre-built MapLibre GL styles are included for PMTiles visualization:
Quick Start
DuckDB streams the 1.7 GB file via HTTP range requests — no full download needed.
Files
STAC Metadata
- Root:
../../catalog.json(Portolan NL) - Parent:
../catalog.json(RVO)
Source
Processing Notes
Source GeoPackage downloaded from PDOK ATOM service, converted to GeoParquet preserving native EPSG:28992 CRS. PMTiles generated via ogr2ogr + tippecanoe with --drop-densest-as-needed --extend-zooms-if-still-dropping.
License
CC0-1.0 (public domain)
Contact
Chris Holmes cholmes@9eo.org
Part of Portolan NL — Cloud-Native Dutch Geodata