Custom IMRO2012 integration development
Under the Environment and Planning Act (Omgevingswet), the old zoning plans have not disappeared. They form the transitional part of the environmental plan, and municipalities have until 2032 to convert them. Those plans are in IMRO2012, the standard from the days of the Spatial Planning Act (Wro). Appfront builds the integration that retrieves them via the system's API, places them alongside the new environmental documents, and makes them usable in your own systems.
What is an IMRO2012 integration?
IMRO2012 is the information model for spatial plans under the Spatial Planning Act. In it, a zoning plan consists of a GML file with zoning areas, designations and references to the rules, published on ruimtelijkeplannen.nl. Geonovum maintains the standard, along with sister standards such as STRI2012 and SVBP2012. Since the Environment and Planning Act came into force on 1 January 2024, new rules have been drawn up using STOP and TPOD.
Even so, the old plans will matter for a long time. Zoning plans form the transitional part of the environmental plan until municipalities have converted them, and they have until 1 January 2032 to do so. Anyone who wants to know what is permitted on a plot therefore has to consult both: the old plan in IMRO and the new rules in the system. On top of that, the WMS and WFS services of ruimtelijkeplannen.nl were switched off on 1 July 2024, which means many existing GIS integrations no longer work.
We build custom because the need differs from one organisation to the next. A municipality wants to keep track of how much of its plans has already been converted, a consultancy wants the full picture per location, and an estate agent or grid operator wants zoning designations alongside their own data. The integration uses the REST APIs that central government provides for this purpose, and feeds the result into the software you already use.
Plans in your systems
Zoning designations and rules per location.
Old and new together
IMRO alongside STOP and TPOD.
Via the APIs
After the shutdown of WMS and WFS.
How we build your IMRO2012 integration
We start with your question: which plans you need, for which locations, which system they need to end up in, and which integration may have worked until 2024. Then we look at the system's APIs and what data they provide per plan and per location. We often start by retrieving zoning designations and rules per plot, because that answers the most questions. Combining them with the new environmental documents and any checks follow once that works well. After that, we maintain the integration when the APIs or your systems change.
Plans, locations and systems.
IMRO and environmental documents.
Retrieve, combine, display.
Go-live, and maintenance for new versions.
What an IMRO2012 integration actually does
The components below appear in almost every IMRO2012 integration. Which ones you need depends on your role and your systems.
Retrieve plans
Per location or per plan.
Zoning designations
Areas and designations.
Lines
At the right area.
Old alongside new
With environmental documents.
GIS
In your own map layers.
Validation
Against the standard.
Who we build an IMRO2012 integration for
The integration is intended for organisations that need to know what applies per location and cannot do without the old plans. The more locations or plans you have, the more it delivers.
Municipalities
Convert. Keep track of what is already new.
Consultancies
The full picture per location.
Real estate
What is allowed on this plot?
Grid operators and infrastructure
Routes crossing many plans.
Technology and integrations
This page is about the plans in IMRO2012. For submitting new environmental documents, see our page on the STOP integration; for the annotations, our page on the IMOW integration; and for amending an environmental plan, our page on the plan mutation tool. You can read about our approach on custom software development.
Why Appfront for your IMRO2012 integration?
A GIS integration that has retrieved nothing since July 2024, old and new rules in two separate viewers, and staff who have to search per location themselves: all of this costs an organisation time with every question about a plot. We build on that: plans in your own systems, old and new together, and via the APIs the national government provides.
Full picture
Old and new per location.
Working again
After the end of WMS and WFS.
Less searching
In your own software.
Security and privacy in an IMRO2012 integration
Plans are public data. However, the integration often combines them with data that is not, such as customer files, ownership or networks. Access to that combination is set up per role, any credentials for the APIs are stored encrypted, and every retrieval is logged.
The integration runs in a European data centre, with encrypted storage and daily backups. Where personal data is processed, we record this in a data processing agreement.
Frequently asked questions about an IMRO2012 integration
Questions organisations ask before they get started.
Not entirely. The regulation containing the standards was withdrawn on 1 January 2024, but it remains in force in transitional situations. Zoning plans form the temporary part of the environmental plan, and municipalities have until 1 January 2032 to convert them. Until then, plans in IMRO remain legally relevant.
Via the Requesting spatial plans REST API, which the national government has designated as the replacement. For the new rules there is the Presenting environmental documents API. For a full picture per location you use them together, and that is exactly what the integration does.
Yes. For a location, the integration retrieves both the IMRO plans and the environmental documents and shows them side by side. This lets you see which zoning designation still applies and which rules have already been replaced by the new environmental plan.
Hardly. Procedures whose draft was available for inspection before 1 January 2024 are completed under the old rules and in IMRO. The temporary measure for amending an environmental plan in IMRO, TAM-IMRO, has no longer been possible since 1 January 2026. New amendments go through STOP and TPOD.
Yes. The integration converts zoning areas, designations and references to rules into the map layers and tables that your GIS or software uses. We tailor how often they are updated and which plans are included to your use.
Then what applies changes, and the integration picks that up the next time it fetches. For a municipality, we can also track which plans or parts have already been replaced by the new omgevingsplan (environmental plan), so you can see how the transition is progressing.
For municipalities and environmental services, consultancies, estate agents, valuers and property developers, grid operators and infrastructure companies, and software suppliers that show plans per location. If you only look up the odd plot, the Regels op de kaart viewer is often enough.
Zoning plans back in your own systems?
Tell us which plans you need and where they need to end up. We'll show you how the integration works.