BSH GeoSeaPortal open maritime geodata

Use in your agent

Probe BSH GeoSeaPortal open-data pages in memory. Checked against the provider's documentation on Nov 6, 2026.

Access

• No key. HTTPS GET of BSH open-data and GDI public-services pages.

Request

curl -sS -L -o bsh-geo.html 'https://www.bsh.de/EN/TOPICS/Geoinformation_and_Open_Data/geoinformation_and_open_data_node.html'

Format

HTML entry points to GeoSeaPortal / GDI-BSH spatial data services (WMS/WFS family); not a single JSON table.

Load into pandas (in memory)

Needs Python 3 with requests and pandas. The provider's terms limit storage or leave it unclear, so this snippet does not write a file.

"""Probe BSH GeoSeaPortal open-data pages in memory (GeoNutzV; writes no file)."""
import requests
import pandas as pd

pages = [
    "https://www.bsh.de/EN/TOPICS/Geoinformation_and_Open_Data/geoinformation_and_open_data_node.html",
    "https://gdi.bsh.de/public/public_services.html",
]
rows = []
for url in pages:
    r = requests.get(url, timeout=30)
    r.raise_for_status()
    rows.append({"url": url, "status": r.status_code, "bytes": len(r.content)})
print(pd.DataFrame(rows).to_string(index=False))

Run by us on 2026-11-06 (python 3 | requests). Result: BSH Geoinformation and Open Data page and gdi.bsh.de public services page returned HTTP 200 on 2026-11-06.

Limits

• Not stated numeric rate limit on the checked BSH pages.

Quirks

• Reuse under GeoNutzV requires a source note.
• Do not invent a JSON REST API — start from the GeoSeaPortal / GDI service list.
• This snippet writes no file; it only probes the HTML entry points in memory.

Terms and attribution

• BSH: GeoSeaPortal spatial data and services "are freely accessible" and under GeoNutzV "may be used without restrictions if a source note is added."
• GeoNutzV §2: federal geodata provided geldleistungsfrei for commercial and non-commercial use; this probe does not store or cache geodata payloads.

Sources

• https://www.bsh.de/EN/TOPICS/Geoinformation_and_Open_Data/geoinformation_and_open_data_node.html: “freely accessible”
• https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/geonutzv/__2.html: “kommerzieller und nicht kommerzieller Nutzung geldleistungsfrei”