INSPIRE-WFS SL Soil ALKIS: Derived Soil Objects for Germany

Germany's Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie provides a geospatial service for derived soil objects. The data is derived from the Authoritative Real Estate Cadastre Information System (ALKIS) and conforms to the INSPIRE directive for soil data. It was last updated on March 23, 2026.

Use Cases

• Model soil-related environmental risks based on derived soil property objects.
• Integrate standardized soil data into land-use planning applications using the INSPIRE-compliant schema.
• Analyze spatial relationships between soil properties and other cadastral features from the ALKIS source system.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the official German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy.
• Conforms to the INSPIRE European spatial data infrastructure standard.
• Last update is scheduled for March 23, 2026, indicating planned maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description is technical but lacks specifics on the exact derivation methods for soil properties.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Derived from the Authoritative Real Estate Cadastre Information System (ALKIS).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-23 00:00:00

Geography

Germany