The centre of competence for the Swiss Confederation responsible for geographical reference data, for instance the description, representation and archiving of geographic spatial data.

97 datasets found

  • Geological Map of Switzerland 1:500000

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The 1:500,000 Geological Map of Switzerland covers the whole of Switzerland and adjoining parts of neighbouring countries. It gives an overview of the distribution of the uppermost...

    Last updated: December 31, 2005

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • well-consolidated-rock
    • geologic-map
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • geology
    • earth-science
    • sedimentation-geology
    • stone
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Geotopes in Switzerland

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Geotopes are geoscientific natural monuments. Geotopes that represent geological history show the development of the landscape, the climate and life, the formation and...

    Last updated: January 1, 1990

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • API
    • geotope
    • protected-natural-zone
    • register
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • geology
    • protected-sites
  • Aerial Images swisstopo infrared

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The aerial imagery catalogue of swisstopo includes several hundred thousand analogue aerial photographs (in colour, infrared, or black and white). They are represented by the...

    Last updated: January 1, 1927

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • GPKG
    • HTML
    • API
    • aerial-photograph
    • aerial-photograph
    • orthoimagery
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • National Map 1:25'000

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National Map 1:25,000 is a topographic map of Switzerland representing the areas of traffic and settlements, the hydrography, the topography and the vegetation in great detail....

    Last updated: June 30, 1952

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • traffic-network
    • national-map
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • terrain-representation
    • official-geodata
    • cartography
    • vegetation
    • relief-land
    • border
    • water-geographic
    • geographical-names
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • topography
    • map-chart
  • National Map 1:100'000

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National Map 1:100,000 is a supra-regional topographic map of Switzerland. The map perimeter is divided into 23 individual sheets. There are composites of specified regions....

    Last updated: June 30, 1954

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • terrain-representation
    • traffic-network
    • national-map
    • vegetation
    • border
    • cartography
    • water-geographic
    • relief-land
    • geographical-names
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • topography
    • map-chart
  • Thermal waters

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    This dataset contains an overview of groundwater in Switzerland that have been heated by geothermal energy. The increased temperature of thermal groundwater results from the...

    Last updated: November 7, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • confederation
  • Switzerland During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 1:500000

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map (GK500-LGM) shows the maximum extent of glaciation in Switzerland at the height of the last Ice Age around 24,000 years ago. It presents the latest results of current...

    Last updated: December 31, 2009

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • glaciology
    • e-geoch
    • glaciation
    • geology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • VECTOR25 Hydrographic network GWN07

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The layer "Hydrographic network" consists of a directionally oriented line network connected to each other with nodes, and of a table without geometry. Those features which are in...

    Last updated: August 31, 2007

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • hydrography
    • lake
    • geographic-information-system
    • water-geographic
    • river
    • landscape-model
    • e-geoch
    • gis-geographic-information-system
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • nomenclature
  • Ski routes

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Transport

    The digital ski routes contain specific information for snow sports in Switzerland and adjacent parts of its neighbouring countries. The data set is produced in collaboration with...

    Last updated: November 12, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • cartography
    • official-geodata
    • ski-tour
    • transport-networks
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Cableways and skilifts winter

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Transport

    The cableways and skilifts operating in winter are part of the national maps with snow sports theme for Switzerland and adjacent parts of its neighbouring countries. The data set...

    Last updated: November 12, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • confederation
    • official-geodata
  • swissSURFACE3D Raster multidirectional hillshade

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The hillshade is derived from the digital elevation model swissSURFACE3D Raster. It illustrates the surface relief of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. A hillshade...

    Last updated: October 30, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • geographic-information-system
    • digital-land-model
    • relief-land
    • laser
    • laserscanning
    • 3d-simulation
    • gis-geographic-information-system
    • dem-digital-elevation-model
    • lidar-light-detection-and-ranging
    • 3d-visualisation
    • elevation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • swissTLMRegio Transportation public transport

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo

    The Public Transportation Topic, as part of the Transportation Topic, contains different features connected with traffic (road, railway, airports, car-ferry, ...). It consists of...

    Last updated: October 9, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • railway-network
    • road-network
    • highway
    • railway
    • geographic-information-system
    • road-traffic
    • main-road
    • path-netwok
    • cableway
    • gis-geographic-information-system
    • ferry
    • landscape-model
    • path
    • transport-networks
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • National Map 1:200'000

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National Map 1:200,000 is a topographic map giving an overview of Switzerland. The map perimeter is divided into 4 (printed map) or 16 (Swiss Map Raster) sheets. The National...

    Last updated: November 17, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • national-map
    • terrain-representation
    • traffic-network
    • water-geographic
    • relief-land
    • cartography
    • border
    • geographical-names
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • topography
    • map-chart
  • National Map 1:10'000 (color)

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The 1:10,000 national map is swisstopo’s largest scale topographic map. It stands out for its detailed representation of traffic, settlements, terrain and vegetation as well as its...

    Last updated: May 1, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • vegetation
    • border
    • water-geographic
    • relief-land
    • cartography
    • national-map
    • traffic-network
    • terrain-representation
    • orthoimagery
    • hydrography
    • transport-networks
    • buildings
    • land-cover
    • elevation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • topography
    • map-chart
  • National Map 1:1 million

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National Map 1:1 million is a small-scale topographic map giving an overview of Central Europe: Switzerland and its neighbours from Lyons to Salzburg and from Strasbourg to...

    Last updated: January 29, 2025

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • general-map
    • terrain-representation
    • national-map
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • traffic-network
    • border
    • relief-land
    • cartography
    • water-geographic
    • geographical-names
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • topography
    • map-chart
  • Natural stones on buildings

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    This dataset shows the use of stone in the construction of over 4,000 buildings in Switzerland. The data was collected by Francis de Quervain between 1954 and 1983. Over the past...

    Last updated:

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • lithology
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • petrography
    • built-structure
    • geotechnics
    • geology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Permanent Network: The Automated GNSS Network for Switzerland AGNES

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Instead of providing a user with the new reference frame LV95 in a classical manner with site descriptions and coordinates, it is also conceivable to provide LV95 using permanent...

    Last updated: January 1, 2002

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • HTML
    • API
    • national-survey
    • galileo
    • swiss-positioning-service-swipos
    • e-geoch
    • glonass
    • gps-global-positioning-system
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • positioning-service
    • navigation
    • geodesy
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Total Intensity Map of Switzerland 1:500000

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Geomagnetic maps are the result of measurements of total intensity, declination and inclination. The geomagnetic field is defined by a vector, which isrepresented in terms of its...

    Last updated: December 31, 1979

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • geophysical-map
    • e-geoch
    • geophysics
    • magnetism
    • geology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Transition of reference frames LV03 - LV95: Triangular network (CHENyx06 and FINELTRA LV)

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The triangular network of the national survey (FINELTRA-LV) was completed in the 90's and has permitted to transform geodata from LV03 to LV95 and vice versa with an accuracy of...

    Last updated: December 31, 2006

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • fineltra
    • national-coordinates
    • reference-system
    • coordinate
    • coordinate-reference-systems
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Lithological and mineralogical map of Switzerland 1:200000

    Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Lithological-mineralogical map of Switzerland 1:200,000 provides an overview of the subsurface classified according to lithological criteria. The superimposed locations of...

    Last updated: January 1, 1998

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • ore
    • mineral
    • raw-material
    • mineral-resources
    • geology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure