WMS TopPlusOpen - TopPlusOpen Light

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Dataset information

Country of origin
Updated
2026.02.23 00:00
Created
Available languages
English
Keywords
infoMapAccessService
Quality scoring

Dataset description

Presentation service (WMS) for a freely usable worldwide uniform web map based on free and official data sources.In the product, among other things, free official geodata of the federal government and the open data countries Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and Thuringia are presented. In addition, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Rhineland-Palatinate provide their official spatial data for the TopPlusOpen within the framework of a cooperation agreement, so that these countries are also represented exclusively by official data.In the other federal states and abroad, OSM data is mainly used in the corresponding zoom levels, which from the point of view of the BKG meet all quality requirements and can be combined almost seamlessly with the official data.The web services of the TopPlusOpen are offered via the standardized interfaces WMS and WMTS and are high-performance.There are 4 different variants offered: - TopPlusOpen: Very detailed map display in solid colors - TopPlusOpen grayscale: Content identical to the full-tone version; Automatically generated grayscale - TopPlusOpen Light: Content reduced compared to the full-tone version; Subtle colour scheme - TopPlusOpen Light Grey: Content identical to the TopPlusOpen Light; Presentation in shades of grey and individual discreet colors (waters, borders)The TopPlusOpen web map is produced in two projections: - Pseudo-Mercator projection (EPSG:3857) - UTM32 (EPSG:25832)Pseudo-Mercator projection: The web map has 19 scale levels in this projection and is divided into three different display areas: - Worldwide representation for small scales - Europe-wide representation for medium scales - Detailed representation for Germany and the adjacent foreign countriesProjection UTM32: The web map has 14 scale levels in this projection and is divided into two display areas: - Europe-wide representation for medium scales - Detailed representation for Germany and neighbouring countries: The TopPlusOpen-Light layer is well suited for use as a background map and has a reduced content compared to the solid-tone version of TopPlusOpen. It is presented in a discreet colour scheme.
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