Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG)

About Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG)

The Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy is the central service provider of topographic data, cartography, and geodetic reference systems for the German government. 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 With outdated or wrong place or length data, we would often find ourselves in a field or even in a river again.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.