Topographic Map 1:50,000 - Economic Output for Finsterwalde (1974-1982)

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