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Data sources & licences

All data offered here comes from the official open-data sources of the German states. Content is passed on unchanged, but unified in format and coordinate system. The following attribution applies to the ALKIS GeoPackages as well as to DTM1/DSM1 as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF and to the linked DOP, iDSM and LiDAR tiles of the respective states.

Exception: Berlin's DTM1/DSM1 are licensed under dl-de/zero-2-0 instead of dl-de/by-2-0.

Parcels in Bavaria are not official: Bavaria does not publish parcels as open data, so the layer there contains the free parcel approximation by Minonexus GmbH (dataset). Attribution: Flurstücksnäherung Bayern © Minonexus GmbH, CC BY 4.0. Abgeleitet aus Parzellarkarte, 3D-Gebäudemodellen (LoD2) und tatsächlicher Nutzung: Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung – www.geodaten.bayern.de, CC BY 4.0. Hauskoordinaten: © GeoBasis-DE / BKG, CC BY 4.0. Enthält Informationen aus OpenStreetMap, ODbL. Verändert: automatisch vektorisiert und genähert, nicht amtlich.

Map and administrative boundaries

• Administrative boundaries — © GeoBasis-DE / BKG (2026), VG25, dl-de/by-2-0
• Base map Germany — © basemap.de / BKG, dl-de/by-2-0
• Base map France — © IGN, Plan IGN, Licence Ouverte 2.0
• Base map Austria — © basemap.at, CC BY 4.0
• Base map Netherlands — © Kadaster, PDOK BRT-Achtergrondkaart, CC BY 4.0
• Base map Switzerland — © swisstopo, free with attribution (OGD)
• Base map Luxembourg — © ACT, geoportail.lu, open data
• Base map and national borders outside Germany — © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and © EuroGeographics respectively, served via the tile service of Eurostat GISCO

Aerial imagery in the map

The orthophotos in the map view are embedded live as official WMS/WMTS services of the respective agency — there is no copy of the imagery here. The full list of embedded services including attribution is in the sources window of the map, because it depends on the area shown. The same applies to the historical map series in the “Historical maps” layer.

Sentinel-2 mosaics

The Sentinel-2 satellite mosaics are likewise passed through live, here from LGLN geoLabs, processed from Copernicus Sentinel-2 data of ESA — we keep no copy of these either.

France

• Aerial photos, height models and point clouds — © IGN (BD ORTHO, LiDAR HD), Licence Ouverte 2.0
• Cadastre — © DGFiP, prepared by Etalab, Licence Ouverte 2.0
• Department boundaries — © IGN, ADMIN EXPRESS, Licence Ouverte 2.0

Netherlands

• Aerial photos — © Beeldmateriaal Nederland, CC BY 4.0
• Elevation models and point clouds — Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (AHN), CC0
• Province and municipality boundaries — © Kadaster, PDOK Bestuurlijke Gebieden, CC BY 4.0

Switzerland

• Aerial photos, elevation models and point clouds — © swisstopo (SWISSIMAGE, swissALTI3D, swissSURFACE3D), free use with attribution (OGD)
• Vegetation heights and historical surface models — Swiss Federal Institute WSL, National Forest Inventory, via EnviDat; laser scan and Sentinel-2 CC BY 4.0, aerial imagery ODbL 1.0, historical 1979–2006 CC0
• Cadastral survey — the cantons, obtained via geodienste.ch; terms of use per canton, mostly free with attribution
• Canton and municipality boundaries — © swisstopo, swissBOUNDARIES3D, free use with attribution (OGD)

More European countries

• Austria — Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen (BEV) (CC BY 4.0); Land Kärnten – KAGIS (CC BY 4.0); Land Steiermark – GIS-Steiermark (CC BY 4.0); Land Tirol – tiris (CC BY 4.0); Land Salzburg – SAGIS (CC BY 4.0); Land Vorarlberg – VoGIS (CC BY 4.0); Datenquelle: Stadt Wien – data.wien.gv.at (CC BY 4.0); Land Oberösterreich – DORIS (CC BY 4.0); Stadt Linz – open commons Linz (CC BY 4.0)
• Belgium — urban.brussels (UrbIS) (CC BY 4.0); Digitaal Vlaanderen (Modellicentie Gratis Hergebruik); Service public de Wallonie (SPW) (CC BY 4.0)
• Cyprus — Department of Lands and Surveys (DLS) (CC BY 4.0)
• Czechia — Český úřad zeměměřický a katastrální (ČÚZK) (CC BY 4.0)
• Estonia — Maa- ja Ruumiamet (Avaandmete litsents)
• Finland — Maanmittauslaitos (MML) (CC BY 4.0)
• Iceland — Náttúrufræðistofnun Íslands (CC BY 4.0)
• Ireland — Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) (CC BY 4.0)
• Italy — Regione Toscana (CC BY 4.0, greyscale 1954/1978 CC BY-SA 4.0); Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta (CC BY 4.0); Regione Toscana, laser scan of the Ministry of the Environment (MASE) (CC BY-SA 3.0 IT); Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (CC BY 4.0); Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol (CC0 1.0)
• Latvia — Latvijas Ģeotelpiskās informācijas aģentūra (LĢIA) (CC BY 4.0)
• Liechtenstein — National Administration of Liechtenstein (Open Data BY)
• Luxembourg — Administration du cadastre et de la topographie (ACT) (CC0 1.0)
• Norway — Kartverket (CC BY 4.0)
• Poland — Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii (GUGiK) (free to use under the Polish Geodesy Act)
• Slovenia — Geodetska uprava Republike Slovenije (GURS) (CC BY 4.0)
• Spain — Gobierno de Navarra (CC BY 4.0); Gobierno Vasco (geoEuskadi) (CC BY 4.0); Institut Cartogràfic Valencià (CC BY 4.0); Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (CC BY 4.0); GRAFCAN (Canary Islands) (CC BY 3.0)
• Sweden — Lantmäteriet (CC BY 4.0)
• United Kingdom — Environment Agency (Open Government Licence v3.0); Scottish Government (Open Government Licence v3.0); Welsh Government (Open Government Licence v3.0)

North America

• Canada — Government of Yukon (GeoYukon) (Open Government Licence – Yukon); Natural Resources Canada, National Air Photo Library (Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0); Parks Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0); Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), CanElevation (Open Government Licence – Canada 2.0); GeoBC – LidarBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (Geospatial Ontario) (Open Government Licence – Ontario); Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts du Québec (CC BY 4.0); Manitoba Land Initiative (Manitoba Open Data Licence); Polar Geospatial Center (ArcticDEM, NSF-OPP awards 1043681, 1559691, 1542736, 1810976, 2129685) (CC BY 4.0)
• Mexico — Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) (Términos de Libre Uso de la Información del INEGI)
• USA — Indiana Geographic Information Office (IndianaMap) (CC0 1.0); Utah Geospatial Resource Center (UGRC) (CC BY 4.0); Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) (free to use with attribution); Polar Geospatial Center (ArcticDEM, NSF-OPP awards 1043681, 1559691, 1542736, 1810976, 2129685) (CC BY 4.0)

Scientific products (DLR)

The map layer "Scientific products" embeds remote-sensing products of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) live as a WMS service of the EOC Geoservice — we keep no copy. All are licensed under CC BY 4.0, each © DLR: CropTypes (crop types; Gessner et al. 2025, Asam et al. 2022), GrassLands (mowing frequency, first cut), Tree Species Germany, Forest Structure Germany, Forest Canopy Cover Loss (Thonfeld et al. 2022), Land Surface Temperature Germany, Degree of Urbanization Germany, HedgeRows Bavaria and Woody Cover Height Bavaria.

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