The database tables contains geodata of the Federal
Republic of Germany with geo referenced towns,
municipalities, town quarters and other administrative
units, postal codes, telephone preselections, nature
areas, landscapes, climatic zones and official
topographical cartographies. The data contain
coordinates for navigation and geo-coding, proximity
searches and distance computations and are prepered
for the spatial mapping of environmental information.
Quite often it is necessary to reference an address
field e.g. like town or municipality name, postal code
or telephone preselection, to corresponding
geographical data and coordinates - a Geo Reference.
The geo reference can be used e.g. to direct a
customer to the closest store locations of a retail
store chain by doing a proximity search. Another
possibility it to determine distances between the
different objects of the database tables with the
included geo references. With the elevation data from
a Digital Elevation Model the ground level height of
each place can be determined. Often the knowledge is

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