SWRData/Boundaries

Ready-to-use, timestamped, tiled boundary data for Germany.

Usage

https://static.datenhub.net/data/boundaries/[TILESET]_[TIMESTAMP].versatiles?{z}/{x}/{y}

See demo for code samples. Note these tilesets require manual attribution.

Tilesets

Name	Description	Source	License
admin_boundaries	Staat, Länder, Kreise, Gemeinden 1:250,000	BKG VG250	DNN 2.0
admin_labels	Label points for all features in admin_boundaries	BKG VG250	DNN 2.0

Timestamps

2024-01-01, 2025-01-01

Fields

Field	Description
id	Sequential ID unique to the tileset
ars	12-digit Amtlicher Regionalschlüssel
name	Normalised feature name
land	Two-digit ID indicating the Bundesland containing the feature or the feature itself
level	Administrative hierarchy level; lower levels represent larger features (follows OSM levels)

Contributing

Data pipeline

• Install uv, versatiles and tippecanoe (Mac/Linux only)
• cd tasks/make_boundaries
• uv sync to install Python dependencies
• uv run src/main.py to run the tile generation pipeline
• versatiles serve -c versatiles.yaml to start a local tile server

Demo

• cd demo && npm i && npm run start

Prior work

• Polylabel