This presentation service provides geographical names in scale 1:250 000 (GN250) for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The geographical names contain the names of the following object ranges:
— Settlement,
— Transport,
— Vegetation,
— Waters,
— Relief and
— Areas
with attributes to:
— Administrative structure (statistical key number)
— River system (water identification according to LAWA)
— Number of inhabitants
— Size (area, length)
— Location (geometry data from the digital landscape model in scale 1:250 000 and additionally attributive geographical coordinates (-GGMMSS-)
— Status of the geographical name
— Language of the geographical name
— Height (height in meters above NN)
The selection of geographical names in the dataset GN250 is based on the map scale 1:250 000. The dataset contains approximately 155 000 entries. The position of the objects is described as point geometry via a single coordinate and via the smallest circumscribed rectangles (Bounding Boxes).
The copyrighted data is provided free of charge under Data License Germany — Attribution — Version 2.0. Scale: 1:250000
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