Up-to-date and digital The multi-purpose city map The Vienna
multi-purpose city map (MZK) is a digital map with optimum depth
of field that is updated in regular intervals. It provides its
users - urban development planners, traffic planners, architects
or property developers - access to the city's topography, in up
to three dimensions. As long as 25 years ago, the Vienna city
administration decided to come up with a map offering a degree
of accuracy equalling a scale of 1:200. Today, this map has
become a major resource for planning and administrative
activities in Vienna. The digital map of Vienna or MZK was
developed to record the structure of the city with the objective
of creating a map suitable for multiple purposes. MZK is a GIS-
based tool that is used by Vienna's municipal administration for
planning purposes. It has scales of 1:200 to 1:100,000.
Representing the latter scale requires some generalisations, for
which you need suitable data gained from surveying and aerial
photography. The digital map i