About us

The navigation system in our car guides us safely when it is working with reliable geoinformation. With outdated or wrong place or length data, we would often find ourselves in a field or even in a river again. Even when bridges or tunnels are being built, it is very important that everything fits.

It is therefore important that we collect information about properties and position from every point on the surface of our country, and that these so-called geoinformation are regularly checked. Without being aware of it, in many areas geoinformation is already as natural as electricity from the socket.

The legal basis of our work is the Federal Geo data Reference Act (BGeoRG) according to which BKG maintains geodetic reference systems and collects and provides reference data of the Federal Government for use by federal authorities and fulfills its international obligations.

With its service center the BKG offers a starting point for all users, with the DOP Viewer Germany can be viewed from above and via contact you reach the competent contact person, if you have any further questions.

Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy:

• ensures a uniform coordinate system for the entire territory of the Federal Republic of Germany
• provides up-to-date spatial data of Germany via the internet
• supports the establishment and expansion of spatial data infrastructure, which in turn enables all citizens to search for and take advantage of the spatial data offered by the federal government
• represents German interests in international collaborative entities and projects addressing the fields of geodesy and geoinformation

The Service Center for geoinformation and geodesy of the German federal government:

• advises its customers, and offers customer-oriented solutions
• integrates the official spatial data records of BKG and all sixteen federal states (Laender), as well as those of third-party suppliers - these data is then edited and standardized by BKG before being made available in digital form
• provides a great variety of spatial data, web services, and web applications