WMS: Soil Assessment Maps for Germany at Multiple Scales

WMS: Soil - Soil assessment is a Web Map Service (WMS) providing maps for evaluating natural soil functions according to the German Federal Soil Protection Act (BBodSchG). The service is hosted by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie. The maps are available at five distinct scale levels, from high-resolution parcel planning to nationwide overviews.

Use Cases

• Assess soil function for parcel-level development based on high-resolution (1:1,000-10,000) maps.
• Conduct municipal-level environmental planning based on medium-scale (1:10,001-35,000) soil function maps.
• Perform regional or national strategic planning based on broader-scale (1:35,001-1,000,000) soil assessments.

Strengths

• Maps are structured for specific planning contexts across five defined scale levels.
• Data is produced under the authority of the German Federal Soil Protection Act (BBodSchG).

Limitations

• Column-level data structure and specific attributes are unknown; field semantics must be inferred from the map service.
• Row count and total data volume are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Geography

Germany