1. NAME OF NATION: GERMANY
  1. Name of Respondent Supplying Information: Dipl. -Ing. Hagen Graeff
    Title (if any):

    2. Mailing Address: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Baubehoerde, Amt fuer Geoinformation und Vermessung, Postfach 100504, 20003 Hamburg, Germany 
    E-mail Address: graeff.gv@baubehoerde.hamburg.de  
    Telephone Number: +49 40 23755050  
    Fax Number: +49 40 23755966

  2. Does your nation have an active or proposed initiative for developing a national spatial data infrastructure (or its equivalent)?

    3. YES

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  3. LEADERSHIP: Which agency or organization is coordinating or leading national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) development efforts in your nation?

    4. Agency/Organization Name: Working Committee of the Survey Administrations of the States of the Federal Republic of Germany (AdV)
    Mailing Address: Landesbetrieb Landesvermessung und Geobasisinformation Niedersachsen, Postfach 510450, 30634 Hannover 
    E-mail Address: peter.creuzer@lgn-51.h.uunet.de
    Telephone Number: +49 511 64609151 
    Fax Number: +49 511 64609162
    Name of Agency Head or Primary Contact Person: Peter Creuzer, Secretary Gerneral of AdV

  4. AVAILABILITY: What are the primary types, categories or forms of spatial digital data being made available through your nation's NSDI?

    5. Vectordata: ATKIS DLM 25Rasterdata of topographical maps 1:25.000; 1:50.000, 1:100.000, 1: 200.000, 1:500.000 and 1:1.000.000

  5. MECHANICS OF ACCESS: Through what technical and organizational mechanisms are spatial data being made available through the NSDI?

    6. A. Organisational:

    A.1. Through the mapping agencies of the States of the Ferderal Republic of Germany. Each for its own data.
    A.2. Through the Federal Office for Cartography and Geodesy in case that more than one state is concerned.

    B. Technical: Offline, mostly EDBS-Format, DXF-Format possible

  6. LEGAL AND ECONOMIC FRAMEWORKS FOR ACCESS: What are the legal and economic constraints under which citizens, businesses or others may gain access to data available through the NSDI?

    7. Laws, contracts, price-lists

  7. DATA COLLECTION COORDINATION: What parties are involved in collecting data for the NSDI and how is data collection coordinated?

    8. Data are collected by the mapping agencies of the States of the Ferderal Republic of Germany coordinated by the Working Committee of the Survey Administrations of the States of the Federal Republic of Germany (AdV) and its working groups.

  8. PRICING: If charges are assessed for spatial data made available through the NSDI, what is the basis or method for determining the price of various forms of spatial data?

    9. The charges usually depend on the covered area.

  9. COMMERCIAL INVOLVEMENT: Please describe how private commercial firms are involved in helping to build the NSDI.

    10. Digitizing topographical maps and developing software

  10. PUBLIC DOMAIN DATA SETS: Please describe those digital spatial data sets for jurisdictions within your nation that are available to anyone without any licensing or intellectual property restrictions imposed on the data sets and the data sets are available at no cost or little cost. How may copies be acquired of these public domain data sets?

    11. No public domain data sets available.

    Certain data sets are sold on CD-ROM that are distributed by the mapping agencies of the States of the Ferderal Republic of Germany.

  11. PUBLIC GOODS ASPECTS OF NSDI: Please describe any additional services or goods provided by government in support of the NSDI for which individual users are not charged.

    12. None

  12. PRIVACY: Please describe how the information privacy of individual citizens is protected relative to data that may be accessed through the NSDI.

    13. The information privacy of individual is protected by certain laws of the States of the Ferderal Republic of Germany which restrict access to data.

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  13. AUTHORITY: Do the laws or formal orders of any legislative or executive branches of government explicitly recognize the need to establish

    14. or further develop the NSDI?

    YES

    If YES, please provide citations to those laws or orders. If YES, to whom has authority been granted and for what tasks?

    The governments of the States of the Ferderal Republic of Germany have recognized that need several times.

    No citations available.

  14. FUNDING: Have funds been specifically budgeted and acquired for NSDI activities?

    15. No

  15. INCLUSIVENESS: Please describe the types and extent of participants involved in building the NSDI and their roles.

    16. The NSDI is mainly build by the mapping agencies of the states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Developing software and digitizing topographical maps was partly done by private commercial firms. Energy-supply-firms supported the building in financial terms.

  16. COMPONENTS: Please indicate whether the vision of an NSDI for your nation incorporates the following components or concepts.

    17. A. METADATA: YES
    B. CLEARINGHOUSE: NO
    C. DATA STANDARDS: YES  
    D. CORE DATA: YES

  17. RESEARCH: Have funds been specifically budgeted and spent on research projects to advance NSDI concepts?

    18. No

  18. LINKAGE TO GENERAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS - Which international or national information and communication technology standards has the NSDI adopted?

    19. Standards of DIN (national), CEN and ISO (international)

  19. GLOBAL SPATIAL DATASETS: Does your NSDI provide access to spatial datasets with global coverage?

    20. IF YES, which datasets and how may access to these datasets be achieved?

    European data sets (SABE) are provided by MEGRIN. The AdV is a member of MEGRIN.

  20. GLOBAL OR REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVES: Is your NSDI formally affiliated with or connected to any global or regional spatial data infrastructure initiatives?

    21. YES

    If YES, which initiative(s)?

    GSDI, MEGRIN

  21. LONG TERM VISION OR STRATEGIC PLAN: Has a long term vision statement or strategic plan been developed for your country's NSDI?

    22. Not yet, but discussion to establish a plan started recently.

  22. GRAND CHALLEGES: Name one of the most pressing challenges for NSDI development in your nation.

    23. Telecommunication

  23. FURTHER INFORMATION:

If an NSDI WEB SITE exists where information about NSDI efforts in your nation may be found in the future, please provide the web site address.

www.adv-online.de

If brochures are other written materials exist describing NSDI efforts in your nation, please provide an address for requesting copies of these materials.

See above.

If a user requirements analysis or cost-benefits analysis was undertaken to estimate the benefits of building a spatial data infrastructure for your country, please provide an address for requesting a copy.

Not available