National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark

Geodatastyrelsen ( German geodata authority ) is a cadastral authority with 300 employees and headquarters in the northwest of Copenhagen, which is under the Danish Ministry of Environment. My area of ​​responsibility is partly in the cadastral survey of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and surrounding of these waters and the development of sea and topographic maps, and the management of cadastral maps for these areas. The Authority was established on 1 January 1989 as Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen (short KMS; German Cards & Cadastral Agency ) through a merger of the three institutions Geodætisk Institute ( Institute of Geodesy ), Søkortarkivet ( charts archive) and the Matrikeldirektoratet ( land registry ) which exist at that time the housing and Construction Ministry (By -og Boligsministeriet ) were under. After the general election in 2001 to set up under the government of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I was assigned to the Ministry of Environment. At the turn of 2012/2013, the Authority was renamed by the Folketing decision in Geodatastyrelsen. The largest consumer of the services offered are the Danish Armed Forces.