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About PEIL
PEIL reads your surroundings. Water, building, neighbourhood. Measurements and registers in one row: the number, what it means, where it comes from.
What PEIL does
PEIL gathers the measurements and registers that concern your surroundings and puts them in one row: the water level of the canals, what is registered about a building, how a neighbourhood is doing on energy. Every number comes with what it means, who measured it, when, and what it does not say.
It lives in three places: the app PEIL Amsterdam for the water, the checks on peilje.nl per address or neighbourhood, and this portal.
The three rules
Who says it stands next to it. A number without the name of its source does not appear here.
When it was measured stands next to it, as a real date. Never "recently" or "just now".
What it does not say is there too. A measurement nearby is not a measurement under your house, and we write that down.
What PEIL is not
PEIL is an independent private initiative: not a government service, not a valuer, not an estate agent, not an adviser. The app is not an official navigation aid. We give no advice and estimate no energy label or property value. Where we make an estimate it says "inschatting van Peil" (PEIL's estimate), and where we do not know something it says "onbekend" (unknown) instead of a number. What that means per check is stated on the check itself and in the terms.
Where the data comes from
Four families; every page states which of them fills it.
National base registers
BAG (buildings and addressable objects), BRO (groundwater), AHN (elevation), Kadaster PDOK (address search and parcel). Government data under the stated reuse terms, with attribution.
National monitoring networks and models
RIVM (noise, air), LIWO (flood scenarios), EP-Online (energy labels), RVO and the national government (schemes), CBS (statistics per neighbourhood, attributed as CBS asks).
The City of Amsterdam and the water boards
Monuments, trees, historical soil information, tariffs and by-laws, target water levels. Municipal datasets carry their own terms of use; where a dataset does not allow reuse we do not use it.
What we collect or compute ourselves
Routes, places, stories and derived numbers. Those carry the label "berekend" (computed) or "inschatting van Peil" (PEIL's estimate). The source line under a value always names the source itself, so you can check with the owner what is allowed.
Since when
The start: the idea for a guide to the Amsterdam water, with source, date and limit from the first sketch.
PEIL Amsterdam on the water, as a closed beta.
The checks PEIL je Pand, PEIL je Buurt, PEIL je Kantoor, PEIL je Fundering and PEIL je Verzekering on peilje.nl, and this portal.
month by month, with date and reference: the timeline on peilamsterdam.nl
Who makes it
PEIL is made in Amsterdam by Max Hermans. The trade name, the company behind it and the contact details are in the colophon. How we handle your data is in the privacy statement; what we promise and do not promise in the terms.
state: beta · paid features are not live yet