WMS TopPlusOpen: Topographic Map Service for Germany at 1:25,000 Scale

TopPlusOpen Presentation Graph is a uniform topographic presentation service at a scale of 1:25,000 covering the Federal Republic of Germany and neighboring countries. The Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie provides the service, which uses high-resolution raster data at 508 DPI in the UTM32 coordinate system. It integrates official geodata from multiple federal states and supplements with OpenStreetMap data in other areas.

Use Cases

• Generate printed topographic maps based on the high-resolution raster data specified for print.
• Create web map visualizations using the WMS service layers for normal, grayscale, and brightened variants.
• Combine official German state geodata with OSM data for seamless regional analysis as described.
• Use as a base layer for spatial planning and environmental studies across Germany and its borders.

Strengths

• High-resolution raster data specified at 200 pixels/cm (508 DPI) for print-quality output.
• Integrates official geodata from multiple German federal states including Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Thuringia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Rhineland-Palatinate.
• Provides three presentation variants: normal output, grayscale, and a brightened variant.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Aggregated from free official geodata sources of the German federal government and participating states, supplemented with OpenStreetMap data.

Geography

Federal Republic of Germany and neighboring foreign countries.