Is there a map of all the Umweltzones (environmental zones) in Germany?

Is there a map of all the Umweltzones (environmental zones) in Germany?

5/20/2018 4:22:43 PM

You can eventually use the Umweltzone app for Android which I develop as an open source project since some years.

App screenshots

The app works both on tablets and smartphones.

6/13/2017 8:52:56 AM

I just found this site that offers zoomable maps for all(?) German environmental zones (need to scroll down to get to the Germany section):
https://www.green-zones.eu/en/green-zones-app/zones-overview.html

You can enlarge each map by clicking the thumbnail on the top left corner on a subpage.

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3/8/2019 9:29:14 AM

User hiergiltdiestfu already mentioned in his answer that OpenStreetMap (OSM) also contains so-called low emission zones (LEZ) which represent environmental zones. While there seems to be no OSM-based map showing these zones you can use Overpass API and overpass turbo to create such a map on the fly:

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/pI8 (the query will take quite a while to run)

[out:json][timeout:600];
(
  way["boundary"="low_emission_zone"]({{bbox}});
  relation["boundary"="low_emission_zone"]({{bbox}});
);
out body;
>;
out skel qt;

low emission zones on OSM

low emission zones on OSM

Note that the query will take some time to complete for large areas. Also the map will be incomplete since not all low emission zones have been added to OSM yet.

6/12/2017 2:34:11 PM

Here is a map provided by the responsible German authority, the Umweltbundesamt.

If you are hiring a car in Germany and would like to know more, the car rental company will advise you further, either during the reservation procedure or upon arrival.

6/14/2017 9:45:50 AM

The most official source is the Umweltbundesamt (UBA), the Federal Environment Agency. You can use the GIS website of the UBA, which provides nice PDFs of each Umweltzone. Example: Berlin (Euro 3). There’s a map of Germany as a whole as well.

A less official site, but with a much broader approach, is Urban Access Regulations, which collects more classes of restrictions in one place, but with a slightly harder to use interface and a much slower site. Example: Berlin. It also links detail maps, if provided by the municipality (example: Berlin).

My first idea was to use OpenStreetMap, which also has a layer for the Umweltzonen, but the layer’s proposal hasn’t left the Draft status, so I wouldn’t expect it to be complete. Nonetheless, the tag appears on quite a lot of cities all over Europe, so you might give it a try, starting here (beware the Status column!) and clicking the number in the Link column to find the OSM detail map. (Example: Berlin.)

OSM-Karte der Berliner Umweltzone, Lizenz: (ODbL), (CC BY-SA) OpenStreetMap-Mitwirkende

6/12/2017 11:47:28 AM

There is a user-made Google map with a clickable list of cities. It would seem that the borders of the Umwelt zones are clearly defined. For example, below is a screenshot of the zone in Bochum:

Bochum umweltzone map

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