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BAG building usage notations on Top10NL in QGIS

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The building contours of BAG objects are much more precise than the standard built-up block shapes of the Top10NL topographic data set (aside from the fact that the BAG is more up-to-date than the Top10NL). The “BAG objects & addresses” data set also contains the usage function(s) of buildings. Using the BAG, it’s possible to quickly view locations of shops, entertainment areas, office parks, industrial zones and schools. But these usage functions are not part of a geometry column in the BAG, because a particular BAG residential object can have multiple usage functions (1:n relation). However, using the free Geon BAG convertor it’s possible to create a shapefile of BAG objects that include up to 2 usage functions per BAG residential object.

In QGIS, this point-shapefile may be used to visualise the usage function on top of the building contours. See the example below, using the following legend:

  • Green: shops, stores
  • Purple: entertainment, restaurants, club houses
  • Yellow: education
  • Pink: health
  • Blue: office
  • Brown: industry
  • Cyan: sports
  • Red: hotels
Map of part of Almere incl Top10NL, BAG buildling contours and usage functions

You can view the larger map including the full legend here.

The topographic map quickly shows the locations of stores, restaurants, office parks, schools, etc. A next step would be to color the entire area of a particular building instead of using a dot. However, this requires some more complex joining of attributes of tables. Anyone with a smart solution is most welcome to report it here.

 

A colour style scheme for the Dutch TOP10NL Topography

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When opening a geo-file for the first time in QGIS, random colors are assigned to the points, lines, and polygons. QGIS offers excellent features to design and use color style schemes. This article describes how to do this, with the objective as follows:

Figure 1. Adding Styles

I was just seven years old when someone gave me the special topographic edition of the Walcheren map (scale 1:25,000), which completely blew me away. My general love for graphic design expanded with a passion for cartographic styling. So, when Kadaster (the Dutch national mapping agency) finally offered their famous dataset “Top10NL” (meaning: Netherlands vectorized at a nominal scale of 1:10,000) for free (as GML files), I was in a state of total bliss. At last I was able to style the famous topographic Dutch map with my own color styles. Moreover, QGIS directly reads GML files, so I thought this was going to be an easy job.

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