Vector feature types

ATES system

Alias ates_system
Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage system.

Administrative area

Alias administrative_area
Country, province, municipality, district, neighbourhood

Archeological site

Alias archeological_site
A place in which evidence of past activity is preserved or historical, and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.

Bare terrain

Alias bare_terrain
Terrain with homogeneous surface material and function not covered in vegetation and not fitting any other more specific feature type

Barrier

Alias barrier
Freestanding structure, designed to restrict or prevent movement across a boundary

Berth

Alias berth
Mooring site for floating objects (ships, houseboats)

Boundary

Alias boundary
Line which marks the limits of an area; a dividing line

Bridge

Alias bridge
Structure built to span a physical obstacle, such as a body of water, valley, or road, without closing the way underneath.

Building

Alias building
Structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house, office or factory.

Building part

Alias building_part
Structural part of a building as a whole

Building unit

Alias building_unit
Individual unit within a building (such as an apartment or office). In Dutch this is a 'verblijfsobject'.

Camera

Alias camera
Device for recording visual images in the form of photographs, film, or video signals

Cemetery

Alias cemetery
Place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred

Charging station

Alias charging_station
A power supply station that supplies electrical power for recharging plug-in electric vehicles or other electronic devices. These stations are most commonly associated with electric vehicles, but they can also refer to stations for charging e-bikes, scooters, and even portable electronics like smartphones

Communication tower

Alias communication_tower
Structure for transmitting radio applications like television, radio, mobile phone or officials radio

Contour

Alias contour
Imaginary line on the land surface, all points of which have the same value for some parameter. Common examples are elevation (isohypse), travel time to an object (isochrone), pressure (isobar).

Drainage basin

Alias drainage_basin
A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water

Electricity pylon

Alias electricity_pylon
Tall structure, usually a steel lattice tower, used to support an overhead power line

Facility

Alias facility
Place where a particular economic activity happens or where a specific service is provided to customers. For example shops, dentists, medical centers, universities, schools, sports facilities, restaurants, hotels, child care and police stations. Classified according to Google Business list: https://pixelcutlabs.com/blog/google-my-business-categories/

Fault

Alias fault
Planar or gently curved fracture in the rocks of a planet's crust

Field sample

Alias field_sample
An individual sample, taken at a specific location on a specific time, without leaving any (semi-permanent) physical installation in place. For example a CPT test, water quality sample, one-time water level measurement.

Fire hydrant

Alias fire_hydrant
A fire hydrant is a connection point by which firefighters can tap into a water supply.

Fixed drainage level area

Alias fixed_drainage_level_area

Groundwater body

Alias groundwater_body
A a distinct volume of groundwater within an aquifer or aquifers

Groundwater monitoring tube

Alias groundwater_monitoring_tube
Tube installed for measuring groundwater levels and/or quality parameters, typically for a specific aquifer. For this purpose, the tube also contains a sensor.

Groundwater well

Alias groundwater_well
Structure created in the ground to access groundwater resources. Can be used for extraction or injection.

Groyne

Alias groyne
Rigid structure stretching out a short distance from the shoreline or riverbank for the purpose of reducing the movement of sediment or ice-jamming

Halting site

Alias halting_site
Residential area is a designated place for (static) caravans and mobile homes

Incident

Alias incident
An incident is an unplanned situation necessitating a response.

Irrigated area

Alias irrigated_area
An area that is artificially supplied with water.

Land cover

Alias land_cover
Physical appearance of the surface of the earth

Lock

Alias lock
Construction used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways. In Dutch: 'sluis'. This feature type refers to the entire structure,

Marker

Alias marker
Physical marker used to identify and/or indicate geographic features

Monitoring station

Alias monitoring_station
A small scale semi-permanent location where measurements are collected. Note that weather stations are classified as their own feature type.

Monument

Alias monument
A structure or object (or its remnants) that is of general interest due to its beauty, significance for science, or cultural-historical value.

Nature reserve

Alias nature_reserve
Protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of conservation

Network link car

Alias network_link_car
Routable network element for transport mode 'car'

Node

Alias node
A node is a localized swelling (a knot) or a point of intersection (a vertex)

Parcel

Alias parcel
Piece of land owned by someone

Park

Alias park
Large public garden or area of land used for recreation

Parking lot

Alias parking_lot
Cleared area that is intended for parking vehicles

Pier

Alias pier
Long, narrow structure extending into the water to afford a berthing place for vessels, to serve as a promenade, etc.

Pipe

Alias pipe
Tube for transporting liquids, gases, or finely divided solids. Typically used for natural gas, oil, drinking water and wastewater.

Place

Alias place
City, town, village, hamlet or isolated dwelling

Plant cover

Alias plant_cover
Area covered by a certain vegetation class

Policy intervention

Alias policy_intervention
One or more action taken by a government, organization, or company to achieve a specific policy objective or goal. These measures can include new laws, regulations, subsidies, taxes, or public campaigns

Power cable

Alias power_cable
Cable for transporting electrical power. Power cables may be installed as permanent wiring within buildings, buried in the ground, run overhead, or exposed.

Power plant

Alias power_plant
An industrial facility that generates electricity from primary energy

Pumping station

Alias pumping_station
Facility that houses pumps and equipment for pumping fluids from one place to another. Examples include sewage pumping stations, pumping stations for irrigation or drainage, oil, or for drinking and industrial water supply

Railway

Alias railway
Tracks made of steel rails along which trains run

Recycle bin

Alias recycle_bin
Medium and large waste bins, typically for bagged up household or industrial waste. They may be in the street, but they are not primarily for use by passing pedestrians.

Region

Alias region
An area with common characteristics, defined by language, government or religion, but without formal judicial status like that of an administrative area or a nature reserve.

Restriction

Alias restriction
Disclosure of Public Law Restrictions on Immovable Property Act concerns restrictions imposed by the government on a piece of land or a building or any valuable structure

Road

Alias road
A paved or improved path for vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians

Sensor

Alias sensor

Shipping lane

Alias shipping_lane
A regularly used navigable route for large water vessels (ships) on wide waterways such as oceans and large lakes, and is preferably safe, direct and economic.

Soil body

Alias soil_body
Part of the soil cover that is delineated and that is homogeneous with regard to certain soil properties and/or spatial patterns.

Soil profile probe

Alias soil_profile_probe
Device that measure soil moisture, temperature and conductivity of soil column

Solitary vegetation object

Alias solitary_vegetation_object
Individual trees, plants or hedges.

Sports ground

Alias sports_ground
Piece of land used for sports, refers only to outdoor facilities (tennis courts, baseball fields, football fields)

Storage tank

Alias storage_tank
Containers that hold liquids, compressed gases (gas tank) or mediums used for the short- or long-term storage of heat or cold

Street light

Alias street_light
Light illuminating a road, typically mounted on a tall pole, or hanging on a cable that is span between buildings or poles.

Structure

Alias structure
Generic type for man-made objects that cannot be classified as a building or any other feature type

Structure part

Alias structure_part
Component of a larger civil engineering structure

Substation

Alias substation
Facility for controlling the flow of electricity in a power network. Substations can vary in size from small buildings the size of a garden shed, to much larger outdoor installations of the size of many football fields

Threshold

Alias threshold
Level above which something is true and below which it is not. Note: the threshold is a static value, dynamic thresholds are considered timeseries. Simple, standardized thresholds can be modelled easier as columns with the parent feature type. This 'threshold' feature type is only for user-defined and advanced thresholds, that require additional properties beyond simply the threshold value to be stored.

Traffic light

Alias traffic_light
Set of automatically operated coloured lights, typically red, amber, and green, for controlling traffic at road junctions, pedestrian crossings, and roundabouts

Transect

Alias transect
Path along which one counts and records occurrences of the objects of study

Trash can

Alias trash_can
Public trash can for solid waste disposal

Tunnel

Alias tunnel
An underground passageway, dug through the surrounding soil/earth/rock and enclosed except for entrance and exit, commonly at each end.

Utility box

Alias utility_box
Any transformer, switch box, telephone, cable television box, service panel, meter or similar device, either ground-mounted or mounted to a support structure.

Valve

Alias valve
A valve is a device or natural object that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.

Vehicle

Alias vehicle
A machine designed for self-propulsion, usually to transport people, cargo, or both

Waterbody

Alias waterbody
Body of water forming a physiographical feature, for example a sea or a reservoir

Weather station

Alias weather_station
Observation post where weather conditions and meteorological data are observed and recorded

Weir

Alias weir
A barrier built across a river, sometimes to divert water for industrial purposes. Water can flow over the top

Wellfield

Alias wellfield
Array of extraction and/or injection wells, together with interconnected piping and related materials, providing water to a nearby facility.

Wind turbine

Alias wind_turbine
Device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy

Zoning plan

Alias zoning_plan
Zoning is a method of urban planning in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into areas called zones, each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones.