WMS Coordinate Networks for the Federal Republic of Germany

A presentation service provides coordinate networks for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. The coordinate grids are displayed as a regular grid with a scale-dependent grid width. The data is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie under the Data licence Germany – attribution – Version 2.0.

Use Cases

• Visualize map coordinate grids based on the scale-dependent grid width.
• Integrate standardized German coordinate networks into GIS workflows based on the WMS service.
• Create cartographic reference layers for the Federal Republic of Germany based on the provided coordinate grids.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, a national mapping agency.
• The service provides coordinate grids specifically for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany.
• The data is available under the Data licence Germany – attribution – Version 2.0.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Geography

Federal Republic of Germany