Topographic Map 1:50,000 - Economic Output for Finsterwalde (1974-1982)
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Description
Topographic maps from the former East Germany, classified as 'Confidential service item' or 'Only for official use'. The 'Economics Edition' (AV) series was created between 1974 and 1982 by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie to serve as a map basis for administration, industry, agriculture, and environmental protection. Content layers include ground plan, water, relief, streets, construction areas, and forests.
Use Cases
Historical land-use analysis based on the map's construction and forest area layers
Study of GDR-era administrative and economic planning based on the map's intended purpose
Georeferencing historical environmental features based on the water and relief layers
Strengths
Map series has a defined temporal coverage from 1974 to 1982
Provides a multi-layer view of the landscape with distinct content levels for plan, water, relief, and vegetation
Created by a national mapping agency (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie), suggesting an authoritative source
Limitations
Last updated metadata is from 1979-01-01; data freshness should be verified
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and file formats require manual inspection after download
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the map imagery
Provenance
Source
Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie
Time Range
1974-1982
Freshness
1979-01-01 00:00:00
Geography
Finsterwalde, former German Democratic Republic
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