This data category requires a high level national map. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Scale of 1:250,000 (1 cm = 2.5km).
• Markings of national roads
• National borders
• Marking of streams, rivers, lakes, mountains.
• Updated at least once a year.

Data Location

Comments

Only a raster map with the scale 1:1.000.000 is provided for free. Swisstopo is generally selling its data via the online shop: https://www.toposhop.admin.ch/de/shop/index Only sample maps are provided which specifically exclude the possibility of any further use: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/internet/swisstopo/de/home/products/maps/national/digital/national/pk_25.html

• An interactive map viewer with a all available layers and visualization of changes over time is available here: https://map.geo.admin.ch/
• A catalogue of all the existing geospatial data is available on a specific data catalogue for geo-data with detailed meta-descriptions: https://www.geocat.ch/ Swisstopo provides very detailed information on the last update of topographical maps, example here: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/internet/swisstopo/de/home/products/maps/national/25.html?mapnr=2#mapviewjump Many geographic data sets are now also available on the Swiss Open Government Data Portal: https://opendata.admin.ch/de/dataset?groups=raum-und-umwelt&_organization_limit=0

Reviewer comments

Expert review: data is not free and cannot be downloaded for free in the required scale

Data Availability

• N Openly licensed
• N Is the data available for free
• Y Is the data machine readable
• Y Available in bulk
• Y Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis
• Y Is data in digital form
• Y Publicly available
• Y Does the data exist
• N Is the data available online

Details

Date the data became available	Unknown
Format of data	WMS, WMTS, SHP, PDF
Reviewer	Daniela Mattern
Submitters	Daniela Mattern
Last modified	Mon Dec 01 2014 10:03:17 GMT+0000 (UTC)