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Geography, Territory and environment
For each airport, a security zone is to be established, which protects the airspace from obstacles. The FOCA will decide in each case whether a safety zone is necessary for air ...
The Sectoral Aviation Infrastructure Plan (SAIP) is the federal planning and coordination tool for the civil aviation. Therein the goals and objectives for the infrastructure of...
For aerodromes at which certain noise levels occur, the Swiss environmental legislation (SR 814.41) stipulates that exposure curves have to be produced and reported. This proced...
Public register of polluted sites within the perimeter of civil aerodromes. This includes information about the location, type and quantity of waste, the period of deposition, a...
Designated area in which the land must be kept free for future airport installations. Plot-specific representation with a line on a large-scale plan. Constructional changes that...
Culture, media, information society, sport, Geography
Around 3200 objects (individual buildings, collections in museums, archives and libraries and archaeological objects) are categorised as cultural property of national importance...
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...
The Topographische Atlas der Schweiz was published over the period from 1870 to 1926, initially under the leadership of Colonel Hermann Siegfried. This was the first complete de...
The National Map 1:500,000 is a topographic map giving an overview of Switzerland. The map content is updated periodically in a regular six-year cycle according to a revision pl...
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 ...
Swiss geoid model in the version of 2004 (CHGeo2004) in the reference system CH1903. It forms the zero reference surface (approximated mean sea level) for height determination a...
Swiss geoid model in the version of 2004 (CHGeo2004) in the reference system ETRS89. It forms the zero reference surface (approximated mean sea level) for height determination a...
All spatial data is based on measurement points. It is recommended to use the so-called fixed control points for all technical works which need reliable and accurate position me...
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 permanen...
The 1:200'000 geotechnical map (GK200) shows the subsurface strata classified according to lithological-petrographic criteria. The legend is designed to represent the technical ...
The Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) is the body within the Swiss Geological Survey responsible for hydrogeology. The 1:500,000 Hydrogeological Map forms part of the Ge...
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 upperm...
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...
The overall magnetisation of a rock consists of induced magnetisation caused by the Earth's magnetic field and of remanent magnetisation acquired by the rock during its formatio...
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