WMS Landscape Plans in Kreis Kleve Based on XPlanung Standard

A Web Map Service (WMS) provides standardized access to map sections in grid format for landscape plans in the district of Kreis Kleve, Germany. The service is based on the XPlanung standard and allows querying of extensive plan attributes and object references via GetFeatureInfo operations. The service is provided via the xPlanBox software, with source code available under the GNU AGPLv3 license.

Use Cases

• Visualizing land-use and landscape plans for a specific German district based on the WMS service.
• Querying detailed plan attributes and metadata via GetFeatureInfo requests mentioned in the description.
• Integrating standardized XPlanung-compliant map layers into a geoinformation system as described.
• Developing applications using the open-source xPlanBox software framework referenced in the description.

Strengths

• Provides access to plans conforming to the standardized XPlanung data model.
• Allows querying of extensive attributes and file references via GetFeatureInfo as described.
• Service is built on open-source software (xPlanBox) with publicly available source code.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count and specific data volume are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Provided via a Web Map Service (WMS) based on the XPlanung standard.

Geography

Kreis Kleve, Germany