Prussian State Recording produced topographic maps of the German Empire at a scale of 1:25,000, with recording beginning in 1875 and essentially completed by 1912. The Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie provides these measuring table sheets, which feature contour lines and a normal-zero reference. These sheets formed the largest-scale topographic map work for the area of the Reich Office for Land Recording by 1931.
Use Cases
- Analyze historical land use and settlement patterns based on the topographic map features.
- Train computer vision models for historical map feature extraction based on the contour line representation.
- Study the evolution of cartographic standards and surveying techniques based on the multi-decade production period.
Strengths
- Covers a significant historical period, with production spanning from 1875 to 1931.
- Provides a detailed scale of 1:25,000 for topographic analysis.
- Includes contour line representation and a normal-zero reference for elevation data.
Limitations
- Last updated 1941-01-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie
- Collection Method
- Topographic recording and surveying by the Prussian State Recording.
- Time Range
- 1875 to 1931
- Freshness
- 1941-01-01 00:00:00
- Geography
- German Empire (area of responsibility of the then Reich Office for Land Recording)