GIS

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are information systems for the acquisition, processing, organization, analysis and presentation of spatial data. Geoinformation systems comprise the hardware, software, data and applications required for this purpose.

Geodata are digital information to which a specific spatial position on the earth's surface can be assigned (geoinformation, georeference). They can be directly obtained primary data or further processed secondary data. Of particular importance for geodata are metadata, which describe the actual spatial data, for example, with regard to a time reference or the origin. Geodata are divided into spatial reference geodata (referred to in Germany as "Geobasisdaten", in Switzerland as "Georeferenzdaten"), which are usually provided by the surveying administrations of the federal states or the municipalities (in Switzerland by the responsible offices of the official cadastral survey), and into specialized geodata, which originate from various spatially related specialized databases. They are kept in a geoinformation system, which can be accessed by a geobrowser in the case of Internet-based systems.

Geo5 GmbH offers in-house acquisition, management and processing of project-related geodata.