Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000

Regions and cities, Environment

The Tectonic Map of Switzerland (GK500-Tekto) covers the whole of Switzerland and adjoining parts of neighbouring countries. It shows the large-scale structural and tectonic uni...

swissSURFACE3D Raster monodirectional hillshade

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 hillsh...

National Map 1:10'000 (color)

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 ...

Aerial Images swisstopo b / w

Regions and cities, Environment

The aerial imagery catalogue of swisstopo comprises around 360’000 analogue aerial photographs (black and white, colour or infrared colour). About 280’00 aerial images are repre...

Municipal boundaries - journey through time

Regions and cities, Environment

The layer municipal boundaries constitute the administrative borders of the municipalities of Switzerland and the principality of Liechtenstein. The municipality is the smallest...

Bedrock elevation model

Regions and cities, Environment

The bedrock elevation model is a complete model of the bedrock surface (or Quaternary base) in the Molasse Basin, the larger Alpine valleys (Rhine, Rhône, Aare, Reuss, Linth and...

swissBOUNDARIES3D national boundaries

Regions and cities, Environment

swissBOUNDARIES national boundaries constitute the borders of Switzerland and the principality of Liechtenstein. swissBOUNDARIES3D national boundaries is a derivate of the paren...

Division of Geological Vector Datasets GeoCover

Regions and cities, Environment

The GeoCover datasets are available according to the sheet division of the National Maps 1:25 000. The «Division GeoCover» shows the perimeter, number and name of each map sheet.

swissTLMRegio Protected Areas

Regions and cities, Environment

Territorial boundaries: Boundaries of protected areas in Switzerland and in neighbouring countries.

swissTLMRegio Miscellaneous

Regions and cities, Environment

The topic Miscellaneous contains a selection of prominent single point and line features and elevation points. It consists of sixfeature classes.

SWISSIMAGE HIST 1946: The Orthophotomosaic of Switzerland from 1946

Regions and cities, Environment

The orthophoto mosaic SWISSIMAGE HIST 1946 is a composition of historical black and white aerial photographs from 1946 («US flight mission») over the whole of Switzerland with a...

swissTLMRegio Buildings

The Topic Building contains individual buildings. It consists of one feature class.Because of the effects of generalisation, the assigned buildings in the real world are often g...

Total Intensity Map of Switzerland 1:500000

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 it...

Inclination Map of Switzerland 1:500000

Regions and cities, Environment

Geomagnetic maps are the result of measurements of total intensity, declination and inclination. The inclination is the angle formed by the orientation of the magnetic field rel...

Switzerland During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 1:500000

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 re...

swissTLMRegio Landcover

Regions and cities, Environment

The topic Landcover describes the topographic land cover. It consists of one feature class. The polygons build up a surface network, where gaps and overlays (according to the ov...

General Geological Map of Switzerland 1:200,000

Regions and cities, Environment

Geological mapping of the whole country based on the Dufour Map of Switzerland. Comprised of eight sheets, published between 1942 and 1964, the General Geological Map of Switzer...

Aerial images swisstopo oblique

Regions and cities, Environment

About 4,000 black and white oblique aerial photos form a small part of the image collection of swisstopo. There are snapshots of small towns and photos of the atmosphere in the ...

Aerial Images swisstopo infrared

Regions and cities, Environment

The aerial imagery catalogue of swisstopo comprises around 360'000 analogue aerial photographs (black and white, colour or infrared colour). About 280'00 aerial images are repre...

swissTLMRegio Names

Regions and cities, Environment

The topic Names is comprised of the two Feature Classes NamedLocation and TLMRegio_NamedLocation_PLY which contains names of municipalities, places, peaks and numerous other imp...

swissTLMRegio "Miscellaneous"

Regions and cities, Environment

The topic Miscellaneous contains a selection of prominent single point and line features and elevation points. It consists of sixfeature classes.

swissTLM-Map (grey)

Regions and cities, Environment

swissTLM-Map is an automatically generated map which offers a complement to the national maps in the scale range 1:5'000 to 1:10'000. swissTLM-Map is based on the data of the to...

Geological Vector Datasets GeoCover

Regions and cities, Environment

Die GeoCover-Datensätze V2 (gemäss Datenmodell Geologie standardisiert) basieren auf den Blättern des Geologischen Atlas der Schweiz 1:25’000 (GA25) und auf Kompilationen der zu...

swissTLMRegio Transportation public transport

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

swissSURFACE3D Raster multidirectional hillshade

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 hillsh...