Working Committee Geotopography (AK GT)

The AK GT has the task of maintaining nationwide uniformity in data collection, continuation, documentation and presentation of the landscape-describing, topographical geospational reference data on the earth's surface.

Geotopographic information acquisition

• Use of digital image flight and remote sensing techniques
• Evaluation and image processing techniques for recording topographical changes

Official topographic-cartographic information system

• Further development of ATKIS with its components digital landscape and terrain models
• Digital topographic maps and digital orthophotos as part of the AdV's overall concept for modeling the geoinformation of official surveying and mapping

Topographical national maps

• Publishing principles
• Scale ranges
• Graphics and design for topographic base and follow-up maps
• joint civil-military maps
• topographical area and special maps
• Principles and procedures for archiving discontinued topographical maps (historical maps)

Metadata information system

• Uniform specifications for the data from ATKIS and the grid data from the topographical Laender maps

Fees and terms of use

• Exchange of information about the development of the legal basis (copyright, competition law, EU law, etc.) and participation in the development of technical basis for action
• Participation in the development of uniform fee regulations and terms of use for basic topographical data and topographical Laender maps