Urban Landscape Graphics0.1.0

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Crosswalks

Every external classification the library can translate into element ids. Fit grades: exact (same class), narrower (the external class is a subset of the element), broader (the external class is wider than the element), nearest (closest drawable element), none (nothing to draw). File format: Crosswalk format.

scheme title entries elements exact narrower broader nearest none official colours
adv_lbln AdV Landbedeckung (LB) and Landnutzung (LN) application schemas (GeoInfoDok) 141 55 56 4 37 43 1 0
alkis ALKIS / ATKIS (AAA model) – Tatsächliche Nutzung, Vegetationsmerkmal, Bauwerke, Relief 292 88 127 7 51 98 9 20
alkis_nak ALKIS Nutzungsartkennung (NAK) – 8-digit land-use key of the official area statistics 138 48 58 4 41 33 2 106
at_dkm Austria – DKM Benützungsarten and Nutzungen (BANU-V) 126 33 73 4 0 40 9 0
basemap_de basemap.de Web Vektor – feature classes (attribute klasse) 140 62 74 3 39 24 0 138
baykompv BayKompV Biotopwertliste – Biotop- und Nutzungstypen (BNT) 345 64 137 17 127 61 3 0
berlin_biotope Umweltatlas Berlin 05.08 Biotoptypen 2024 – legend classes 33 22 22 6 1 3 1 33
bgt BGT / IMGeo (Basisregistratie Grootschalige Topografie) 114 61 62 5 3 44 0 0
bkompv BKompV Anlage 2 – Liste der Biotoptypen und -werte (BfN biotope code space) 369 73 119 22 147 73 8 0
clc CORINE Land Cover (CLC), 44 classes in three levels 64 35 28 13 5 18 0 44
clcplus CLC+ Backbone raster, 11 land-cover classes 14 11 4 4 0 3 3 14
din276 DIN 276:2018-12 Kosten im Bauwesen – Kostengruppe 500 Außenanlagen und Freiflächen (to the third level) 70 21 11 6 0 5 48 0
esa_worldcover ESA WorldCover, 11 land-cover classes 11 11 6 3 0 2 0 11
eunis EUNIS habitat classification (revised 2021/2022 and 2012) 381 64 61 32 162 125 1 54
ffh_lrt FFH-Richtlinie Anhang I – Lebensraumtypen (selection relevant around Central European cities) 41 16 11 0 27 2 1 0
hilucs HILUCS - Hierarchical INSPIRE Land Use Classification System 92 21 13 10 46 19 4 11
lbm_de LBM-DE – Landbedeckungsmodell für Deutschland (land cover LB and land use LN) 116 43 63 1 5 46 1 0
lcz Local Climate Zones (LCZ), 17 classes 24 9 4 8 0 12 0 24
lucas LUCAS land cover classification 111 32 28 16 56 11 0 0
osm OpenStreetMap tags 457 120 253 10 23 165 6 0
planzv PlanZV – Planzeichen für Bauleitpläne (Anlage zur Planzeichenverordnung 1990) 72 33 42 2 4 19 5 19
swiss_av Amtliche Vermessung Schweiz – Bodenbedeckung (BBArt) and Einzelobjekte (EOArt) 96 36 41 4 1 31 19 31
uk_metric England – statutory biodiversity metric, habitat types 121 51 65 0 18 37 1 0
ukhab UK Habitat Classification (UKHab) – primary and secondary codes 157 66 90 0 17 48 2 0
urban_atlas Copernicus Urban Atlas, land use / land cover nomenclature 44 22 13 12 8 7 4 32
xplanung XPlanung (XPlanGML) – open-space feature types and enumerations 357 67 157 13 74 101 12 26

adv_lbln · AdV Landbedeckung (LB) and Landnutzung (LN) application schemas (GeoInfoDok)#

  • Publisher: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Länder (AdV)
  • Version: Landbedeckung 1.0.1, Landnutzung 1.0.2 (GeoInfoDok 7.1)
  • Source: https://www.adv-online.de/de/geoinfodok/aktuelle-anwendungsschemata
  • Key field: class; also read: art, artderbestattungsflaeche, bewirtschaftung, blattform, class, eisart, feature_type, featuretype, fliesseigenschaft, funktion, fussgaengerzone, gewaesserart, meerart, oberflaechenmaterial, objektart, sportart, typename, vegetationsmerkmal, wasserfuehrung, wassersaettigung
  • Licence note: Class names and codes from the NAS-LB/NAS-LN XSDs (https://repository.gdi-de.org/schemas/adv/nas-lb/1.0/, .../nas-ln/1.0/) and the AdV register. The schemas prescribe no colours.

Match on the class (LB_* land cover, LN_* land use) plus its coded attribute. LB and LN are separate datasets; where both describe the same place, draw the cover (LB) and use LN for urban green, sport and traffic. LN codes are not the AAA 'Tatsächliche Nutzung' codes (e.g. Modellfluggelände 4290 in AAA vs 4270 in LN), and 5130 means Rastplatz in funktion but Fußgängerzone in fussgaengerzone.

alkis · ALKIS / ATKIS (AAA model) – Tatsächliche Nutzung, Vegetationsmerkmal, Bauwerke, Relief#

  • Publisher: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Länder (AdV), GeoInfoDok
  • Version: AAA-Anwendungsschema 7.1.2 (Stand 01.11.2022); colours from the ALKIS-Signaturenkatalog 2.1.0 (AAA-SK 2.1, Stand 01.10.2024)
  • Source: https://repository.gdi-de.org/schemas/adv/nas/7.1/
  • Key field: objart; also read: art, ax_objektart, bauwerksfunktion, bef, befestigung, bewuchs, bwf, bws, featuretypenumber, fkt, funktion, hyd, hydrologischesmerkmal, kennung, oberflaechenmaterial, objart, objektart, objektartenkennung, ofm, veg, vegetationsmerkmal
  • Licence note: Object codes, value codes and Nutzungsartkennungen are facts from the NAS 7.1.2 schema and the AdV register (https://registry.gdi-de.org/codelist/de.adv-online.gid). Colours are the area fills of the ALKIS-Signaturenkatalog 2.1.0 (https://sg.geodatenzentrum.de/web_public/adv/sk/v2.1/alkis/XML/FB.xml); they are given only where the catalogue fills the area.

Match on objart (5-digit Kennung) plus one coded attribute: funktion (41008, 41009, 42001, 42006, 42009, 42010, 43003, 43007, 44001, 44006), vegetationsmerkmal (43001-43003), oberflaechenmaterial (43007; road/carriageway axes 42003/42005), hydrologischesmerkmal 2000 (intermittent water), bewuchs (54001), bauwerksfunktion (51006, 51009), art (51010, 53002, 53003, 55001, 61003), befestigung (53003). 'nak' is the 8-digit Nutzungsartkennung of the official area statistics (see the alkis_nak scheme). AX_Vegetationsmerkmal 54001 is an overlay: draw it on top of the land-use objects. Traffic areas have no ALKIS-SK fill (paper white). No building (Gebäude) entry: the object code is not in the research used.

alkis_nak · ALKIS Nutzungsartkennung (NAK) – 8-digit land-use key of the official area statistics#

  • Publisher: AdV (GeoInfoDok, NAS 7.1.2 tagged values 'AAA:Nutzungsartkennung'); key defined by Destatis
  • Version: AAA-Anwendungsschema 7.1.2; colours from the ALKIS-Signaturenkatalog 2.1.0
  • Source: https://repository.gdi-de.org/schemas/adv/nas/7.1/
  • Key field: nak; also read: nak, nutzungsartkennung
  • Hierarchy fallback: prefix
  • Licence note: Codes are facts from the NAS 7.1.2 schema. Colours are the ALKIS-Signaturenkatalog 2.1.0 area fills, given only where the catalogue fills the area.

One key per land-use class, unique across object type and Werteart: the key of the Flächenerhebung nach Art der tatsächlichen Nutzung. 'alkis' names the matching ALKIS object type and attribute (same mapping as the alkis scheme). Group codes (10000000 ... 44000000, and the object-type codes such as 18000000 or 21010000) are included, but the prefix fallback shortens codes (18049999 -> 1804999 -> ...) and therefore does not reach these zero-padded group codes; resolve unknown sub-codes by padding, e.g. 18049999 -> 18040000 -> 18000000.

at_dkm · Austria – DKM Benützungsarten and Nutzungen (BANU-V)#

  • Publisher: BEV – Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen
  • Version: BANU-V (BGBl. II Nr. 116/2010, in force 07.05.2012); DKM SHP interface v2.9 (04.12.2024); parcel CSV interface v1.2 (29.01.2025)
  • Source: https://www.bev.gv.at/dam/jcr:a6342749-e2c2-4525-9cee-3b7531474599/BEV_S_KA_Katastralmappe_SHP_V2.9.pdf
  • Key field: ns; also read: ba, benuetzungsart, benützungsart, ns, nu, nutzung, nutzungssymbol
  • Licence note: Codes and names are facts from the BEV interface descriptions and BANU-V § 2. The DKM has no official fill colours (line plus glyph at the polygon reference point), so no colours are given.

Three ways in: (1) DKM shapefile layer NFL (or NSY), attribute NS = symbol number (41 Gebäude, 52 Gärten …), including the symbol numbers removed in 2012; (2) parcel CSV, BA + NU (NU as text '01' or as a number); (3) Nutzung as text. Symbol 40 changed meaning in 2012 (Gärten → Dauerkulturanlagen oder Erwerbsgärten). BA 9 (NS_RECHT) is legal status and not drawn.

basemap_de · basemap.de Web Vektor – feature classes (attribute klasse)#

  • Publisher: Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) and the surveying authorities of the Länder (AdV Smart Mapping)
  • Version: Style bm_web_col, basemap.de:style-version 5.0.3 (read 2026-09-30); vector tiles bm_web_de_3857 v2
  • Source: https://sgx.geodatenzentrum.de/gdz_basemapde_vektor/styles/bm_web_col.json
  • Key field: klasse; also read: class, klasse, layer, source-layer, source_layer, sourcelayer
  • Licence note: Class strings are the exact 'klasse' values of the style filters. Colours are the fill (or line) colours of the colour style bm_web_col; data © basemap.de / BKG, Datenquellen © GeoBasis-DE.

Match the German klasse string of the vector tiles. No klasse in the research changes meaning between source layers, so no entry needs source_layer. Where the style ramps colours with zoom, the high-zoom value is given and the ramp is in the entry note. Buildings (source-layer Gebaeudeflaeche) are styled by layer, not by klasse, and are not listed.

baykompv · BayKompV Biotopwertliste – Biotop- und Nutzungstypen (BNT)#

  • Publisher: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz (StMUV); Arbeitshilfe and BK re-mapping: Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt (LfU)
  • Version: Biotopwertliste zur Anwendung der BayKompV, Stand 28.02.2014 (mit redaktionellen Änderungen vom 31.03.2014); BK sub-types re-mapped by LfU 09/2021 (mapping key 2020/2022)
  • Source: https://www.stmuv.bayern.de/themen/naturschutz/eingriffe/doc/biotopwertliste.pdf
  • Key field: code; also read: baykompv, baykompv_bnt, biotop_nutzungstyp, bnt, bnt_code, nutzungstyp
  • Hierarchy fallback: prefix
  • Licence note: Codes, names and values are facts of the official list. The list prescribes no map colours, so no colours are given.

value = Grundwert in Wertpunkten (WP, 0–15) = G + W + N (Seltenheit/Gefährdung, Wiederherstellbarkeit, Natürlichkeit, each 0–5); Wertstufen 0 keine, 1–5 gering, 6–10 mittel, 11–15 hoch. wp_mark * / ** = W 4 / W 5: time-lag deduction of 1–2 / 1–3 WP when the type is a target state after 25 years. wp_plus_1 = +1 WP if the stand is a § 30 / Art. 23 biotope, a BK type or an FFH habitat type. bk = column 8 of the list as transcribed (x = always one, (x) = may be one, → 2021 = LfU re-mapping 09/2021). ffh = FFH habitat types linked to the BNT (possible, not automatic). age_class = last digit of B2/B3/L/N codes (jung ≤ 25 a; mittel 26–79 a or BHD < 50 cm; alt ≥ 80 a or BHD > 50 cm). A code with a hyphenated BK sub-type (G214-GU651E) falls back to its BNT; the sub-types listed here have their own value, element and protection. protected = legal protection stated in the research; for other hyphenated codes it follows the BK type: § 30 BNatSchG / Art. 23 BayNatSchG for BS, FH, FW, GA, GC, GG, GH, GJ, GL, GN, GO, GP, GR, GT, GU, GW, GY, GZ, LL, MF, MO, MW, QF, SD, SG, SI, SU, VC, VH, VK, VU, WA, WB, WD, WE, WG, WJ, WK, WÖ, WP, WQ, WW; § 39 Abs. 5 BNatSchG / Art. 16 BayNatSchG only for GB, GX, RF, ST, UA, UE, UK, UP, UR, WH, WI, WN, WO, WX; LR… = FFH type without § 30 protection. target_allowed = false: P/X/V types usable on the impact side only (all except P1, P43, V23, V33, V5). Headings G1, P1, P43, V1, V3, V5 are not listed because the research gives no names; their codes fall back to the Obergruppe. Pass BNT codes: a bare biotope-mapping code (GU651E, RF00BK) is a different key and would fall back to an unrelated Obergruppe.

berlin_biotope · Umweltatlas Berlin 05.08 Biotoptypen 2024 – legend classes#

  • Publisher: Senatsverwaltung für Mobilität, Verkehr, Klimaschutz und Umwelt Berlin (SenMVKU), Umweltatlas Berlin
  • Version: Biotoptypen 2024 (Bearbeitungsstand Mai 2025); WMS ua_biotoptypen_2024, area layer ac_biotoptypen_f; technical description Stand 01/2026
  • Source: https://www.berlin.de/umweltatlas/biotope/biotoptypen/2024/methode/
  • Key field: legende; also read: bt_legende, legend, legende
  • Licence note: Datenlizenz Deutschland – Zero – Version 2.0. Colours are the official legend colours of the area layer, sampled from the legend PNG and identical to the SLD (outline #6E6E6E, width 0.1).

bt_legende holds the legend number of each object. Classes 01–22, 24 and 25 exist (the legend has no class 23); both the zero-padded ('01') and the plain ('1') spelling are listed. The 5- to 8-digit Berlin biotope codes (bt_code) are a different key and are not covered. Point and line layers were not read. Map 05.08.2 (protected biotopes) re-uses the class colours.

bgt · BGT / IMGeo (Basisregistratie Grootschalige Topografie)#

  • Publisher: Geonovum (IMGeo objectenhandboek; BGT|IMGeo Visualisatieregels 2.3)
  • Version: Gegevenscatalogus BGT 1.2 / IMGeo 2.2 (objectenhandboek); colours: standaardvisualisatie of the Visualisatieregels 2.3 (15 Oct 2018)
  • Source: https://geonovum.github.io/IMGeo-objectenhandboek/begroeidterreindeel
  • Key field: fysiekvoorkomen; also read: bgt-functie, bgt-fysiekvoorkomen, bgt-type, bgt_functie, bgt_fysiekvoorkomen, bgt_type, bgttype, class, featuretype, functie, fysiekvoorkomen, objecttype, plus-functie, plus-fysiekvoorkomen, plus-type, plus_functie, plus_fysiekvoorkomen, plus_type, plusfunctie, plusfysiekvoorkomen, plustype, type
  • Licence note: Class names are facts from the IMGeo objectenhandboek. Colours are the fills of the official BGT standaardvisualisatie (SLD 2.3); a few rows marked in the note come from PDOK's implementation of that visualisation.

Material first: IMGeo plus-fysiekVoorkomen (with its BGT parent value) beats bgt-fysiekVoorkomen, which beats bgt-functie; so a wegdeel with fysiekvoorkomen 'open verharding' / plus 'gebakken klinkers' is clinker, and functie (fietspad, voetpad …) only decides when no material is given. The object class is needed for two values only: onverhard on a wegdeel (path_unpaved) and groenvoorziening on an ondersteunend wegdeel (verge green). Water parts use bgt-type / plus-type. Values are matched as printed, including the commas in 'greppel, droge sloot', 'oever, slootkant' and 'meer, plas, ven, vijver'. Class names without spaces (begroeidterreindeel, onbegroeidterreindeel, wegdeel, ondersteunendwegdeel, waterdeel, ondersteunendwaterdeel, pand, overigbouwwerk, scheiding, vegetatieobject).

bkompv · BKompV Anlage 2 – Liste der Biotoptypen und -werte (BfN biotope code space)#

  • Publisher: Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Bundeskompensationsverordnung (BGBl. I 2020, 1088; Anlage 2: 1100–1122); code space of the BfN Rote Liste der gefährdeten Biotoptypen Deutschlands (Finck et al. 2017)
  • Version: BKompV vom 14. Mai 2020, zuletzt geändert durch Art. 4 des Gesetzes vom 22. Dezember 2025 (BGBl. 2025 I Nr. 351); Anlage 2 as published on gesetze-im-internet.de (read 2026-09-30); Rote Liste Biotoptypen, 3. Fassung 2017 (Kurzliste)
  • Source: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bkompv/anlage_2.html
  • Key field: code; also read: bfn_code, biotoptyp, biotoptyp_code, bkompv, bkompv_code, rl_code
  • Hierarchy fallback: dotted
  • Licence note: Codes, names and values are facts of a federal ordinance and of the BfN Red List. Neither prescribes map colours, so no colours are given.

value = Biotopwert 0–24; values = per age class J/M/A (junge / mittlere / alte Ausprägung; MA = mittlere bis alte) where the annex splits a type. Wertstufen: 0–4 sehr gering, 5–9 gering, 10–15 mittel, 16–18 hoch, 19–21 sehr hoch, 22–24 hervorragend; § 5 allows up to ± 3 points for above- or below-average condition. Code = Red List code + optional BKompV letter (a, b …) + .01/.02 + optional age suffix. Age suffixes are attached without a dot (41.03.03J), so the dotted fallback of such a code skips its base type: strip the suffix and read 'values'. Rows are machine-extracted (V*); four odd codes are flagged in their notes. Entries with evidence V and no value are Red List types (Kurzliste 2017) added so that Red List and intermediate codes resolve; red_list_de / regenerability give the national Red List status. Arable values by soil: see entry 33. Urban complexes (51.x, 53.01.x) are whole areas incl. their open spaces: map either the complex or its parts, not both.

clc · CORINE Land Cover (CLC), 44 classes in three levels#

CLC maps at 25 ha minimum mapping unit: a context layer for cities that does not resolve single parks, streets or squares. Urban fabric has no use split in CLC; both urban-fabric classes are drawn as residential_area (the Urban Atlas manual defines urban fabric as predominantly residential and the INSPIRE Land Use guideline maps it to HILUCS 5 ResidentialUse); 111 also covers city centres, remap it to mixed_use_area to set cores apart. 141 and 142 are pink in the official legend, not green. Entries 11-52 and 1-5 are the level-2 and level-1 groups, keyed by the leading digits of the level-3 code for the prefix fallback; they have no legend colour. Raster editions can store a legend index instead of the three-digit code: translate to the code first, otherwise small index values hit the group entries. Change layers carry two code columns: pass column= explicitly. Attribute maes is the official CLC to MAES ecosystem-type correspondence (BISE).

clcplus · CLC+ Backbone raster, 11 land-cover classes#

  • Publisher: European Environment Agency (EEA), Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
  • Version: CLC+ Backbone 2018, 2021 and 2023 (identical coding and palette); biennial from 2023
  • Source: https://library.land.copernicus.eu/products/CLCplus_Backbone_2023_PUM_v1.html
  • Key field: code; also read: clcplus, clcplus_bb, dn, grid_code, gridcode, value
  • Licence note: Codes and names from the raster coding of the CLC+ Backbone Product User Manuals 2021 and 2023; colours from the colour-palette tables in their annexes. nrr_urban_green follows the Commission/EEA note 'Methodological support on datasets to be used under Article 8 of the Nature Restoration Regulation', version 2.0 (07/07/2026).

10 m pixel land cover (EAGLE land-cover components), no land use: a lawn, a meadow and a reed bed are all class 6, a green roof is class 1. nrr_urban_green = true marks the classes that count as urban green space under Art. 8 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 (trees 2, 3, 4; shrubs 5; permanent herbaceous 6; lichens and mosses 8; water 10); the CLC+ Backbone 2023 is the baseline dataset. Urban tree canopy cover is measured with the HRL Tree Cover Density, not with this product. The attribute table of the delivered rasters names the code field Value.

din276 · DIN 276:2018-12 Kosten im Bauwesen – Kostengruppe 500 Außenanlagen und Freiflächen (to the third level)#

  • Publisher: DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.
  • Version: DIN 276:2018-12 (replaces DIN 276-1:2008-12); structure as reproduced by WEKA/SIRADOS and Kalusche (BKI F10)
  • Source: https://www.weka.de/bi/sirados/download/Download_DIN276.pdf
  • Key field: kg; also read: cost_group, din276, din_276, kg, kg_din276, kostengruppe
  • Hierarchy fallback: prefix
  • Licence note: Cost-group numbers and titles are facts; the standard text is copyrighted and not reproduced. The standard defines no colours.

Codes of the 2018-12 edition. The same digits mean different things in DIN 276-1:2008-12 (531 = Einfriedungen in 2008, Wege in 2018; 574 = Pflanzen in 2008, Rasen- und Saatflächen in 2018): convert old data with code_2008 first, and do not look up OK FREI ≤ 2018 codes here. Deeper FLL levels (574.30, 5741) fall back to the third level. Cost groups that are not areas map to null, except where the catalog has a line or point element for the whole group (541 fence, 543 wall, 544 stairs, 546 bridge, 563 sign). Building greening left KG 500 in 2018 (façade greening KG 335, deck greening KG 353, green roofs KG 363; formerly 576 Begrünung unterbauter Flächen). Rows are secondary-source (S).

esa_worldcover · ESA WorldCover, 11 land-cover classes#

  • Publisher: European Space Agency (ESA)
  • Version: WorldCover 2020 (v100) and 2021 (v200); Product User Manual v2.0 (2022-10-24)
  • Source: https://esa-worldcover.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/v200/2021/docs/WorldCover_PUM_V2.0.pdf
  • Key field: code; also read: dn, grid_code, gridcode, map, value, worldcover
  • Licence note: Codes, class names and RGB colours from Table 3 'Coding of the Map layer and definition of the classes' of the Product User Manual v2.0; hex values converted from the RGB triples.

10 m global land cover from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, classes defined with the FAO Land Cover Classification System. Land cover only: built-up excludes urban green, which falls into tree cover or grassland; lawn, meadow and pasture all fall into grassland. Codes are the byte values of the Map layer. Successor products after v200 were not checked.

eunis · EUNIS habitat classification (revised 2021/2022 and 2012)#

Two code generations in one file: 2012 codes have a dot after the second character (E2.64, FA.3), the 2021/2022 codes have none (V31, R22); their level-1 letters do not overlap (2012: A-J, X; 2021: M, MH, MJ, N, Q, R, S, T, U, V). Inland waters (C), constructed habitats (J) and habitat complexes (X) are not revised, so their 2012 codes are current. The prefix fallback resolves deeper codes to their group (E2.66 -> E2.6 -> E2 -> E). Level-3 selections for R, S, T, Q, U and N cover temperate urban and peri-urban types only; other codes fall back to their level-2 group. EUNIS is the only European scheme that separates lawn (V31, E2.64, E2.65), meadow (R22, E2.2) and species-rich or ruderal stands; the 2012 -> 2021 correspondence is not encoded here. Names that the research gives in shorthand (C1.1-C1.4, C3.7, E5.13, E5.14, J5.1, J5.2, Q61, Q62, X13-X16) were completed from the shared wording of their sibling codes. Legend colours collide for D5/F6 and D6/F7.

ffh_lrt · FFH-Richtlinie Anhang I – Lebensraumtypen (selection relevant around Central European cities)#

  • Publisher: Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN): Liste der in Deutschland vorkommenden Lebensraumtypen der FFH-Richtlinie (Annex I of Directive 92/43/EEC)
  • Version: Annex I names as of 13.05.2013 (Directive 2013/17/EU); BfN list PDF of 25.09.2018
  • Source: https://www.bfn.de/sites/default/files/2022-05/5_lebensraumtypenliste_20180925_pac.pdf
  • Key field: code; also read: annex_i, ffh, ffh_lrt, habitat_type, lebensraumtyp, lrt, lrt_code
  • Hierarchy fallback: prefix
  • Licence note: Codes and names are facts of EU law. The directive prescribes no map colours.

Codes without the asterisk; priority = true marks priority types (). Through the prefix fallback a starred spelling (91E0) resolves to its base code; 6210* (orchid-rich stands) has its own entry. protected = listed in Annex I; the legal protection of a concrete stand depends on Natura 2000 site rules and national biotope protection. name_short = BfN short name; baykompv = Bavarian BNT ↔ biotope-mapping sub-types linked in the Biotopwertliste. Covers the types transcribed in the research (40 of the 93 types occurring in Germany).

hilucs · HILUCS - Hierarchical INSPIRE Land Use Classification System#

  • Publisher: European Commission, INSPIRE (Land Use theme, Annex III)
  • Version: INSPIRE registry code list HILUCSValue (98 values, legal EU governance); Data Specification on Land Use D2.8.III.4 (published 2024-07-31)
  • Source: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/HILUCSValue
  • Key field: code; also read: hilucs, hilucs_code, hilucs_value, hilucslanduse, hilucsvalue
  • Hierarchy fallback: prefix
  • Licence note: Values from the INSPIRE registry. Colours: default style LandUse.ExistingLandUse.Default of the Land Use Technical Guidelines, section 11.2 (https://inspire-mif.github.io/technical-guidelines/data/lu/dataspecification_lu.html): six level-1 fills plus five permitted adjustments (1_1, 1_2, 4_1_4, 6_3_1, 6_3_2); the guideline's style table spells four of them differently (style_name).

Keys are the numeric part of the registry value, with underscores (3_4_3); name holds the full value (3_4_3_SportsInfrastructure). The separator is an underscore, not a dot, so the scheme uses the prefix fallback: a full value such as 3_4_3_SportsInfrastructure (or the style-table spelling 4_1_4_WaterTraffic) sheds characters until it reaches 3_4_3, and an unlisted 3_2_1 falls back to 3_2. Full registry URIs (http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/codelist/HILUCSValue/...) must be cut to the value first. Six registry values are not listed because the research does not name them (2_3_5 and 3_2_1 to 3_2_5); they resolve to 2_3 and 3_2. HILUCS is land use: the drawing is the nearest land-use element and says nothing about cover. Only level 1 and the five adjusted values carry colours; the default style fills every other value with the colour of its level-1 group.

lbm_de · LBM-DE – Landbedeckungsmodell für Deutschland (land cover LB and land use LN)#

  • Publisher: Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG)
  • Version: LBM-DE2021 (reference year 2021; documentation Stand 30.04.2025)
  • Source: https://sg.geodatenzentrum.de/web_public/gdz/dokumentation/deu/lbm-de2021.pdf
  • Key field: lb; also read: landbedeckung, landnutzung, lb, lb_akt, ln, ln_akt, zus, zus_akt
  • Licence note: Class codes and names from the BKG documentation (Anlage 1). The documentation prints only colour names for the LB groups (A pink, B yellow, C light green, D dark green, E grey, F violet, G light blue), so no colours are given.

Each LBM-DE polygon has a land-cover code (LB_AKT, Bxxx) and a land-use code (LN_AKT, Nxxx); minimum mapping unit 1 ha. With both codes, the combination entries decide where the use changes the drawing (built-up cover by use; grassland in urban green, sport, traffic, residential or extensive use; open ground in extraction, dumps or building sites; ZUS_AKT F = Friedhof, S = Solar). Otherwise the land cover (lb) wins over the use (ln), because lb entries come first. LBM-DE codes are not the codes of the AdV schemas Landbedeckung/Landnutzung (see adv_lbln).

lcz · Local Climate Zones (LCZ), 17 classes#

  • Publisher: Stewart and Oke (2012) typology; global LCZ map by Demuzere et al. (Ruhr-University Bochum, WUDAPT)
  • Version: Global map of Local Climate Zones, Zenodo version 3.0.0 (2023-10-08), nominal year 2018
  • Source: https://zenodo.org/records/8419340
  • Key field: code; also read: dn, grid_code, gridcode, lcz, value
  • Licence note: Class names and colours are the 'official hex color' table of the readme of the global LCZ map v3.0.0 (Demuzere et al., Zenodo), also embedded in lcz_filter_v3.tif. Typology: Stewart, I. D. and Oke, T. R. (2012), Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 93(12), 1879-1900, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00019.1.

Built types 1-10 describe urban form, not use: they are drawn as the nearest land-use element (compact, open, lightweight and sparsely built -> residential_area, consistent with urban fabric in clc and urban_atlas; large low-rise and heavy industry -> commercial_area). The dataset authors advise combining the built classes with a land-cover product. Land-cover types A-G are listed twice: by letter and by their raster value 11-17 (same colours). Colours are palette A, declared official by the dataset authors. A slightly different palette B (Earth Engine Data Catalog entry RUB/RUBCLIM/LCZ/global_lcz_map/latest, often quoted as 'the WUDAPT colours') circulates; it is not included here because it was only seen on a catalogue page. Labels written as 'LCZ 2' or 'LCZ A' must be reduced to 2 or A before lookup.

lucas · LUCAS land cover classification#

  • Publisher: Eurostat (Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey)
  • Version: LUCAS 2022, technical reference document C3 'Classification (Land cover & Land use)', issue 3.0 of 2022-03-01
  • Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/205002/13686460/C3-LUCAS-2022.pdf
  • Key field: code; also read: land_cover, land_use, lc, lc1, lu, lu1, lucas_lc, lucas_lu
  • Hierarchy fallback: prefix
  • Licence note: Codes and names from the LUCAS 2022 C3 classification document. LUCAS defines no legend colours.

LUCAS is an in-situ point survey, a validation source rather than a map. Land cover (LC, codes A00-H23) and land use (LU, U-codes) are separate axes; a few LC + LU combinations that change the drawing are included as match entries (LC in code, LU in lu, e.g. E20 + U362 = sports turf). LUCAS writes groups as A00 and A10; the extra single-letter entries A-H exist only for the prefix fallback, so that codes from other survey years resolve at least to their level-1 group.

osm · OpenStreetMap tags#

  • Publisher: OpenStreetMap community (tag definitions: OpenStreetMap wiki); colours: OpenStreetMap Carto
  • Version: OSM wiki and taginfo as of 2026-09-30; OpenStreetMap Carto v6.1.0 (2026-09-10)
  • Source: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:landuse
  • Key field: tag
  • Licence note: Tag keys and values are facts from the OSM wiki key pages (landuse, natural, wetland, water, leisure, landcover, surface, barrier, waterway, man_made, amenity, highway, building, roof:material, green_roof, leaf_type, denotation, garden:type) and taginfo. Colours are the OSM Carto v6.1.0 fill colours, given only where the style files define a plain hex for that tag.

Records are OSM tag dicts (osmnx columns). An entry with two tags beats every single-tag entry; among equals the first in the file wins. File order: (1) two-tag combinations that change the drawing (green roofs, building footprints over use tags, wetland/water/leaf-type/meadow/basin/garden sub-types, pitch surfaces, paving material, earth and grass surfaces on highways); (2) single tags: surface (material beats function), landcover, natural, wetland, water, landuse (cover values), leisure, tourism, amenity, highway, man_made, barrier, waterway, zone-type landuse/amenity (residential, retail, school …), roof, building (building=* last). Semicolon lists such as surface=ground;grass are not split; split them first. Unlisted values (surface=hard, mixed …) fall through to the next tag of the object. barrier=, waterway=, natural=tree_row are lines; natural=tree, amenity=bench, highway=street_lamp are points.

planzv · PlanZV – Planzeichen für Bauleitpläne (Anlage zur Planzeichenverordnung 1990)#

  • Publisher: Bundesministerium der Justiz (gesetze-im-internet.de); ordinance of the Federal Government
  • Version: PlanZV 1990, last amended by Art. 6 G v. 12.08.2025 (BGBl. 2025 I Nr. 189)
  • Source: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/planzv_90/anlage.html
  • Key field: nr; also read: nr, nummer, planzeichen, planzv, planzv_nr, zweck, zweckbestimmung
  • Licence note: Official work (§ 5 UrhG). The PlanZV gives colours only as names ('colour_name'); the hex values are the xPlanBox default styles of the matching XPlanung classes (de-facto convention, not law). Colours sampled from the JPEG scans of the Anlage are deliberately not used.

Key is the number of the Planzeichen in the Anlage ('9', '10.1', '13.2.1' ...); purpose pictograms (Zweckbestimmung) and the letters of 13.3 are matched by their German name, e.g. {'nr': '9', 'zweckbestimmung': 'Parkanlage'}. Only the open-space groups 4.2, 5, 6, 9-13, 15.13 and the building-use groups 1.1-1.4 are covered. PlanZV applies to Bauleitpläne only and is a 'Soll' rule: signs may be adapted and supplemented (§ 2 Abs. 2, 3).

swiss_av · Amtliche Vermessung Schweiz – Bodenbedeckung (BBArt) and Einzelobjekte (EOArt)#

  • Publisher: swisstopo / Eidgenössische Vermessungsdirektion
  • Version: DM.01-AV-CH (DM.01-AV-CH_LV95_24d_ili1.ili); DMAV 1.0 names from the Basisplan instruction of 1 Aug 2024
  • Source: https://models.geo.admin.ch/V_D/DM.01-AV-CH_LV95_24d_ili1.ili
  • Key field: art; also read: art, bbart, bodenbedeckung, genre
  • Licence note: Enumeration values are facts from the INTERLIS model. Colours are printed RGB values of the federal drafting instructions (read from the PDF pages).

Codes as full INTERLIS path (befestigt.Strasse_Weg) and as leaf name (Strasse_Weg); both resolve. Numeric ITF codes and the French value names (attribute 'genre') are not covered. The official look is black/white; colour is optional and fills only buildings, sealed areas, water and wooded areas; the other soft covers are dashed outlines or glyph rasters (symbol_color). transparency is the BP24 fill transparency in %.

uk_metric · England – statutory biodiversity metric, habitat types#

  • Publisher: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) / Natural England
  • Version: Statutory metric calculation tool v1.0.4 (3 July 2025), sheets 'G-1 All Habitats' and 'G-6 Hedgerow Data'; user guide June 2026; small sites metric user guide July 2025
  • Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statutory-biodiversity-metric-tools-and-guides
  • Key field: habitat; also read: habitat, habitat type, habitat_type
  • Licence note: Habitat type names and distinctiveness scores are facts from the official tool and guides. The habitat classification is based on UKHab, which the guide says is used under licence from UKHab Ltd with no onward licence; codes are given for reference only.

Match on the habitat type name as printed in the tool, without the broad habitat prefix ('Vegetated garden', not 'Urban - Vegetated garden'). distinctiveness: Very high 8, High 6, Medium 4, Low 2, Very low 0 (area module) or 1 (hedgerow module). habitat_code is the tool's UKHab / EUNIS / NE code. Urban types first, then the other broad habitats, the hedgerow module and rows found only in the small sites metric guide. Several small sites metric rows score differently from the tool (urban tree, other green roof, native hedgerow); the tool's scores are used.

ukhab · UK Habitat Classification (UKHab) – primary and secondary codes#

  • Publisher: UKHab Ltd (codes as used by Defra / Natural England in the statutory biodiversity metric)
  • Version: UKHab 2.01 / 2.1 as extracted by the community tooling (S); codes printed in the statutory metric tool v1.0.4 and the small sites metric guide July 2025 (V)
  • Source: https://github.com/mrichar1/UKHAB-QGIS
  • Key field: code; also read: primary, primary_code, secondary, secondary_code, secondary_codes, ukhab, ukhab_code
  • Hierarchy fallback: prefix
  • Licence note: UKHab publications are only available under licence from UKHab Ltd; the official colour palette could not be verified, so no colours are given. Codes marked S come from a community extraction of the official tables; check them against the licensed edition.

Primary codes (letters: g4, u1b5, w1g …) on 'code' with prefix fallback (g3c5 → g3c → g3 → g). Numeric secondary codes go in 'secondary', one code per record (split lists such as '106 828'); they are kept out of 'code' so the prefix fallback never turns 828 into 82. Order: secondary type codes (garden, car park, green roof, tree …) beat the primary code of the same record, the primary code beats the modifiers scattered scrub / scattered trees / mown. The park-type secondary codes 806-812 are not included (their one-to-one assignment is not documented in the research). Small sites metric numbers (1160, 1170, 1111 …) are not UKHab codes and are not included.

urban_atlas · Copernicus Urban Atlas, land use / land cover nomenclature#

Matching uses the five-digit code; the class_* columns (class names) are recognised but not used for matching. Urban fabric classes differ only by soil sealing, not by building type; all are drawn as residential_area (UA PUM: predominant residential use; INSPIRE LU guideline: HILUCS 5). 14200 is drawn as recreation_area because it mixes sports, leisure parks, campgrounds and allotments. Attribute hilucs gives the HILUCS values of the INSPIRE Land Use guideline's Urban Atlas mapping (class 1 only); ua_no is the nomenclature number; access is the 2021 access split. Entries 1, 11, 112, 12, 122, 13, 14, 2, 3, 9 are group keys (UA number without dots) for the prefix fallback. Change layers carry code_2018 and code_2021 together: pass column= explicitly. UA 2006 (field CODE2006) used a different rural nomenclature and is not covered. The Street Tree Layer is matched on its own attribute STL (1 = tree -> tree_canopy, 99 = no data); do not pass STL values as code.

xplanung · XPlanung (XPlanGML) – open-space feature types and enumerations#

  • Publisher: XLeitstelle (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg) for the IT-Planungsrat
  • Version: XPlanGML 6.1 (published 15.04.2025)
  • Source: https://registry.gdi-de.org/schemas/de.xleitstelle.xplanung/6.1/
  • Key field: class; also read: artderfestlegung, artderfestlegung.allgemein, artderfestlegung_allgemein, class, feature_type, featuretype, gegenstand, klassifizmassnahme, massnahme, massnahme.klassifizmassnahme, massnahme_klassifizmassnahme, massnahme_typ, nutzungsform, objektart, typ, typename, xplan_class, zweckbestimmung, zweckbestimmung.allgemein, zweckbestimmung_allgemein
  • Licence note: Class names and enumeration codes are facts from the XPlanGML 6.1 XSDs and GML dictionaries. Colours are the xPlanBox default styles (xplansyn/default, tags xplanbox-7.0 and -9.3, https://gitlab.opencode.de/diplanung/ozgxplanung): a de-facto convention, not law; PlanZV itself prescribes no numeric colours.

Match on the feature type (class) plus the enumeration code of its main attribute: zweckbestimmung (XP_ZweckbestimmungGruen, XP_ZweckbestimmungLandwirtschaft, XP_ZweckbestimmungWald, XP_ZweckbestimmungSpielSportanlage, BP_ZweckbestimmungNebenanlagen), artderfestlegung (SO_KlassifizGewaesser, SO_KlassifizWasserwirtschaft, SO_KlassifizNachWasserrecht, SO_KlassifizSchutzgebietWasserrecht, SO_ZweckbestimmungStrassenverkehr, SO_KlassifizGelaendemorphologie, LP_KlassifizierungNaturschutzrecht), massnahme_typ (XP_SPEMassnahmenTypen of the SPE classes: the target habitat), massnahme + gegenstand (XP_ABEMassnahmenTypen x XP_AnpflanzungBindungErhaltungsGegenstand of BP_AnpflanzungBindungErhaltung). Detail code lists (zweckbestimmung.detail, e.g. 1000_1) are not covered. Identical codes mean different things in different enumerations, so always match with the class.

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