Asset registers and geographic information systems (GIS)
Everything you manage on one map
About 80 percent of all information has a location, according to a common estimate. Yet most of it sits in lists and folders instead of on a map. Surveying and geodata have been our trade since 1986: we capture your assets, put them on the map and keep them up to date. After that, the answer is a query, not a search in the archive.
No obligation · quote in advance
- Your data belongs to you
- Common formats and coordinate systems
- Capture on site from one firm
Do you know these questions?
You can answer each of them once your assets are on the map. Jump to the question that sounds familiar.
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How many street lights do we have?
The number is not in any list. Two colleagues and the municipal depot know where they are. For maintenance, upgrades and budget planning you need both.
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Which areas do we have to maintain?
Green space care and winter service are to be put out to tender, but nobody knows the exact square metres. Estimated quantities make offers expensive.
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How do our paper plans get into the computer?
Folders full of maps, as-built plans and aerial photos. As long as they are not digital and in the right position, nobody can work with them.
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How do our colleagues get to the map?
The data is on one computer in the office. Nobody outside, at the depot or in the council has access.
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How much of our land is sealed?
For fee notices, heavy rain planning or the climate adaptation report, a figure is suddenly needed that nobody has.
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Who actually keeps this up to date?
Data captured once is soon out of date. Without a fixed process for changes, even the best data loses its value within two years.
Capturing geodata
First capture, then manage
It starts with an inventory: we capture what is there, with its position and the details you need. Trees with species and condition, lights with pole number and lamp type, areas with their use.
How we capture depends on the object: by surveying on site, from aerial photos or by taking over your existing documents. Where it must be exact, we measure. Where an overview is enough, evaluating existing material costs less.
- Objects with position and attribute data, structured so that you can analyse them
- Existing data taken over instead of captured again, where possible
- Output in common formats (DXF, DWG, Shape, GeoGraf) and coordinate systems
Do you want your assets captured?
Request data capture
Spatial analyses and evaluations
Spatial analyses: data becomes a reliable figure
Captured data only has value when you can calculate with it. Every object knows its location. So you can combine data that otherwise has nothing to do with each other: areas with types of use, plots with protected areas, trees with planned construction work.
That is exactly what the spatial reference is for. Typical analyses:
- “How much land is sealed?” Area balance by cadastral district (Gemarkung), type of use or owner
- “Which plots are in the flood area?” Your data combined with official and freely available data
- “What has changed since 2019?” Comparison of two points in time, with figures instead of impressions
- “Which areas go into which lot?” Analysis as a basis for the tender and the bill of quantities
- “How do we explain this to the council?” Thematic maps for proposals, applications and reports
Do you need a figure that nobody else has?
Request an analysisExample from our demo: areas separated by type of use, each with its square metres
Managing geodata
So that the map is still correct in two years
A data set is not a project that ends. It needs care. We set up the process for this: who reports changes, how they get into the data, when we measure again and how quality is checked.
This also means bringing together data from different sources: your own captures, official data, freely available sources and the data of other departments. Only together do they give a picture on which you can base decisions.
- Regular updates by a fixed process instead of a one-time capture
- Data from different sources brought together and checked
- Analyses and area balances, for example for tenders
Do you need someone to maintain the data?
Request data maintenance
What we build from it
From the paper plan to a map that everyone in your organisation can use.
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Digitising and georeferencing
We scan maps, plans and aerial photos, place them in the right position in your coordinate system and take over the content as clean geometry. The folder on the shelf becomes a layer you can calculate with.
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Setting up an asset register
An asset register (Fachkataster) links the objects on the map with their attribute data: tree register, open spaces, parking spaces, play equipment, hunting register for municipalities and hunting cooperatives. We set it up so that it answers your questions.
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A map in the browser for everyone
So that the data is not only on one computer: an application in the browser, also on a tablet outside. We take care of setup, hosting and maintenance.
WebGIS with hosting
All your data in one WebGIS
Trees, street lights, green spaces, play equipment, parking spaces or your very own data: we bring all of it into a WebGIS and host it for you. Everyone in your organisation sees the same data in the browser, in the office and outside on a tablet.
Our example for housing companies shows what this looks like in daily work: trees with their inspections, open spaces with square metres, parking spaces and management units on one map.
- All your data on one map, including what you already have
- Setup, hosting and maintenance by us, no server of your own
- In the office and outside on the tablet, with the same data
Example from our demo for housing companies
How your asset register is created
From the first question to a map that is kept up to date.
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Define the goal
Which questions should the data answer? This decides what we capture and how exactly. It is the most important step and saves the most later.
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Review what exists
We check your plans, lists and data. What is usable, we take over instead of capturing it again.
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Capture
On site, from aerial photos or on the screen, depending on the accuracy needed.
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Make it usable and maintain it
You receive the data in your format or as an application in the browser. On request we keep it up to date.
Costs
What does an asset register cost?
This is a freelance service, and you receive a binding quote. The price depends mainly on how much must be captured and how exactly. A tree register with inspections is different from an overview of the areas to maintain.
Tell us which question you want to answer. Often less accuracy is needed than expected, and then it costs much less.
Good to know
- Binding quote before we start, first estimate free of charge
- Regular maintenance on request as an annual agreement
- Your data stays your data, even if you change provider later
Frequently asked questions
We only have paper plans. Can you still work with them?
Yes, that is the normal case. We scan colour and black and white maps, plans and aerial photos and place them in their real position (georeferencing). Then we take over the content as clean geometry, either on the screen or by measuring on site.
Which file formats and coordinate systems do we get the geodata in?
In the common ones: TIFF, DXF and DWG, Shape, GeoGraf and others. We deliver the data in the coordinate system you work with, for example ETRS89 or Gauss-Krüger.
The data belongs to you. You are not tied to us if you later want to continue with a different system.
Do we need our own GIS software for this?
Not necessarily. If only a few people work with it, a web application in the browser is often enough. We set it up and maintain it for you. If you already have a GIS, we prepare the data so that it fits into it without extra work.
Related services
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WebGIS for housing companies
Trees, open spaces and parking spaces of the housing portfolio on one map, for everyone in the company (in German).
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Land consolidation
Procedures under the Land Consolidation Act (Flurbereinigungsgesetz) and the Agricultural Adjustment Act (Landwirtschaftsanpassungsgesetz) on behalf of the state.
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Development plans in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
All plans of the state on one map, with their area of application and legal status (in German).
Which question should your data answer?
Describe what you need to know. We will tell you what has to be captured for it.