The Server
terramapserver is Germany's first geodata portal.

terramapserver offers full-coverage geodata in the form of a state-of-the-art e-commerce package. As Germany's first geodata portal, we will, in future, be offering high-quality geodata from market leaders on a full-coverage basis for the entire Federal Republic of Germany and, in the medium term, for Europe too.

 

If the data stored on our servers were to be printed on paper, the result would be a stack of paper with a height of 1,348 km - about equivalent to the distance between Hamburg and Venice.

Stacked one on top of the other, the terramapserver hard disks would reach a height of about 43 m. If copied onto CD, the volume of terramapserver data would involve a stack of CDs with a height of 803 m or a surface area of almost 1.5 km².

The following table compares the resources required by state-of-the-art IT systems in medium-sized utility companies.
 
Application No. of Servers Hard Disk Capacity
Office applications 1 4 Gbytes
Business applications 1 10-20 GBytes
EDMS applications 1 50-100 GBytes
GIS 2 60-80 GBytes
terramapserver 2 51.000 Gbytes