Dataset Direct Download Service (WFS): Families and landscapes in Auvergne

This data set is the GIS layer of families and landscape sets in Auvergne which results from the “Atlas of landscapes” approach carried by the DREAL Auvergne and published in 2014. The sets of landscapes extend over territories of one or more tens of kilometres and are perceived on this scale. They describe landscapes as their own name. A set of landscapes is therefore a part of territory with relatively appearance homogeneous. It differs from others and clearly identifies itself by certain peculiarities related to geomorphology, plant formations, practices various humans, more or less recent (food, agricultural, forestry, industrial, tourist, safe, symbolic...), constructions, lifestyles... The family map offers nine categories, to distinguish large types of landscapes that we meet in Auvergne. This typology takes into account topographical criteria and ecological, more than a rural/urban distinction, and proposes to link each city or agglomeration with a specific landscape background.