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Manual snow- and precipitation stations
Regions and cities, Environment
In addition to its automatic precipitation measurements, MeteoSwiss also operates a manual precipitation monitoring network. Measurements are taken here once a day and transmitt...
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Stations of the national pollen monitoring network
Regions and cities, Environment
MeteoSwiss operates the national pollen monitoring network. This consists of automatic and manual monitoring stations which cover Switzerland's most important climatic and veget...
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Wind energy concept – Swiss federal government basic map of main areas with...
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The wind energy concept is a concept in accordance with Art. 13 of the Swiss Spatial Planning Act (SPA, SR 700). The concept defines both the principal federal government intere...
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Copy of record Landsat Mosaic of Switzerland created at...
Regions and cities, Environment
The mosaic of Landsat satellite images is a composition of 20 individual images taken by the American satellite Landsat 5, in the years 1990 to 1994. It is a unique set of image...
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Official index of cities and towns including postal codes and perimeter
Regions and cities, Environment
In Article 24 of the regulations governing geographic names (GeoNV), the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) is commissioned to establish, administer and publish the new of...
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Flood alert map for small catchments
Regions and cities, Environment
The FOEN also issues information when a sharp rise in small and medium-sized river levels is expected locally. In these cases, it is impossible to say precisely which rivers wil...
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Territorial divisions
Government and public sector, Regions and cities
The territorial divisions (ter div) are the link with the civilian authorities and ensure the cooperation between the armed forces and the cantons in their area. They provide th...
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Federal inventory of historical routes in Switzerland, elements of landscape
Regions and cities, Transport
The elements of landscape form part of the inventory map, regardless of the classification (national, regional, local). They indicate objects such as milestones, crossroads, cha...
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Federal inventory of historical routes in Switzerland, boundaries
Regions and cities, Transport
The boundaries form part of the inventory map, regardless of the classification (national, regional, local). On the map the boundaries mark the beginning and end of a section (o...
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Inventory of historical routes in Switzerland of regional and local importance
Regions and cities, Transport
The inventory of historical routes in Switzerland (IHR) contains comprehensive information about the course of the historical routes, their history, their condition and their im...
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Federal inventory of historical routes in Switzerland, terrain map
Regions and cities, Transport
The terrain map forms the cartographical basis of the first version of the inventory. It contains supplementary information about the objects specified in Article 3 of the Ordin...
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Road traffic counting - principal network
Regions and cities, Transport
Representation of the automatic traffic counting locations on Swiss roads - principal network
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Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Frequency of meteorological icing at 100 metres...
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
In Switzerland, the mountain regions (Jura, Alps and Alpine foothills) are the most suitable regions for exploiting wind energy potential. But here, the air temperature during t...
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Electricity Transmission Lines sectoral plan
Regions and cities, Environment
Sectoral planning is the federal government’s overlying planning and coordination tool for implementing its spatial planning duties. Projects concerning the construction and exp...
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Large-scale photovoltaic systems in Switzerland
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Depending on their location and orientation, high-alpine photovoltaic systems can generate more electricity per installed kilowatt of power in the winter months than comparable ...
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Wind Atlas of Switzerland: Annual average of the modelled wind speed and...
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The Wind Atlas of Switzerland describes the wind conditions at five different heights above the ground: 50, 75, 100, 125 and 150 metres. The data are based on a nation-wide mode...
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Current pilot and demonstration projects of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
With its Pilot and Demonstration programme the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) promotes the development and testing of new technologies, solutions and concepts relating to...
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Projects of the Coordination Office for Sustainable Mobility COMO
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment, Transport
The Coordination Office for Sustainable Mobility (COMO) is the central contact and coordination point and the first contact point at federal level in matters of sustainable mobi...
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Heating with renewables: Apartment blocks with more than 6 apartments
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
A ‘renewable heating' advice service is available to building owners who have oil, gas or electric heating and who wish to find out which renewable low-carbon heat source is mos...
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2000-Watt Sites
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The 2000-Watt Sites label is used for certifying residential areas that are able to demonstrate a sustainable use of resources for the construction, operation and renovation of ...
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Wind energy plants
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Wind energy plants utilise the kinetic energy of airflow to rotate turbine blades. The mechanical energy that is produced in this way is then converted by a generator into elect...
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Dams under federal supervision
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
The dataset contains fundamental information about dams in Switzerland which come under the direct supervision of the Swiss Confederation. This includes data concerning the cons...
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Waste incineration plants (MWI)
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
Waste incineration is the burning of combustible waste components to reduce the volume of the waste while using the energy it contains.In 2017, Switzerland had 30 municipal wast...
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Projektierungszonen Starkstromanlagen V2.0 OeREB
Regions and cities, Environment
A reserved zone serves to keep an area free for future lines. In a reserved zone, no projects that could interfere with the construction of a new line may be undertaken for a ma...
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Thermal networks: demand from industry
Education, culture and sport, Energy, Regions and cities, Environment
In strategic planning, heat demand is used to identify large connected areas that may be appropriate for a thermal network. Areas with a heat density of at least 700 MWh/a per h...