Hessian Aquatic Areas and Catchment Boundaries at 1:25000 Scale

A list of aquatic areas and small stone catchment boundaries for the state of Hesse, Germany. The data was digitized primarily from the topographic map 1:25000 (TK25) and partly from other sources. The dataset is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie via an INSPIRE Download Service.

Use Cases

• Mapping water bodies and catchment boundaries based on the digitized aquatic areas.
• Analyzing hydrological connectivity based on the small stone catchment areas.
• Integrating water resource data into regional planning models based on the 1:25000 scale.
• Validating or supplementing other hydrological datasets using the TK25-derived boundaries.

Strengths

• Data is digitized at a consistent 1:25000 scale.
• Includes both aquatic areas and catchment boundaries.
• Provided by a national geospatial authority (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 1970-01-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Digitized primarily from the topographic map 1:25000 (TK25) and partly from other bases.

Geography

Hesse, Germany