35 datasets found

  • Tranquillity Areas

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Based on the "Tranquillity Map of the Swiss Plateau" and its calculated "tranquillity" values, certain recreational areas were derived. For this purpose, areas that did not fall...

    Last updated: February 10, 2022

    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • API
    • SERVICE
    • HTML
    • ZIP
    • GPKG
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • leisure-centre
    • space-provided-for-waters
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • tranquility
  • Hydrogeological sketch

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Groundwater is present in all subterranean rock. This map gives a hydrogeological overview of Switzerland and its various types of aquifers. Important unconsolidated aquifers are...

    Last updated: December 3, 2009

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • environment
    • geology
    • hydrography
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Vegetation alpine floodplains

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Der Biotopschutz gemäss Artikel 18a des Natur- und Heimatschutzgesetzes NHG (SR 451) hat einen wirksamen Schutz der national bedeutenden Flächen der wichtigsten Biotoptypen zum...

    Last updated: January 1, 2006

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Underground flow paths in karst regions

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Underground flow paths layer indicates the probable direction taken by the groundwater in karst regions within the catchments towards the relevant spring. These interpretations...

    Last updated: July 1, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • karst
    • environment
    • groundwater
    • hydrogeology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Springs and swallow holes in karst regions

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Karst springs and swallow holes layer shows the main points where groundwater emerges from the karst system as well as important infiltration points. Distinctions are made...

    Last updated: July 1, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • karst
    • groundwater
    • environment
    • hydrogeology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Extent of groundwater resources in karst regions

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Karst water resources layer shows the extent of the water-saturated zone of a karstified aquifer projected to the surface. It is determined by the karst water level and...

    Last updated: July 1, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • groundwater
    • environment
    • karst
    • hydrogeology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Amphibian migration conflicting with traffic

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Since the mid-1950s, the number of amphibians being killed on roads has increased dramatically. Every year, hundreds of thousands of amphibians cross roads in Switzerland during...

    Last updated: January 1, 2024

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • transport
    • environment
    • crossing-place-for-animals
    • amphibian
    • transport-networks
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Catchments in karst regions

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Karst catchments layer depicts those areas where seepage water flows into a specific spring and feeds it. Catchments can occasionally overlap, namely where sections of them...

    Last updated: July 1, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • groundwater
    • karst
    • environment
    • hydrogeology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Catchment units in karst regions

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The Karst catchment units layer consists of the unit areas from which similar groundwater flow behaviour towards the karst spring can be expected. In particular, it allows for the...

    Last updated: July 1, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • environment
    • groundwater
    • hydrogeology
    • karst
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Groundwater bodies of Switzerland

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The groundwater bodies layer shows a simplified and comprehensive breakdown of hydrogeological overview units for Switzerland. The groundwater bodies here have not been developed...

    Last updated: April 25, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • groundwater
    • hydrogeology
    • environment
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Alpine Floodplains outside of the federal inventary

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    As past of the systematic inventory of flood plains, properties that were until recently not evaluated as having national significance will also be included in the federal...

    Last updated: July 4, 2019

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • e-geoch
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • biotope
    • space-provided-for-waters
  • Federal Inventory of Fens of National Importance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Fens are vestiges of earlier natural and cultural landscapes and are in sharp decline. They are home to highly-adapted symbiotic communities of plants and animals that include a...

    Last updated: January 1, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • HTML
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • National Ecological Network REN, watercourses / lakes

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National Ecological Network (REN) was developed in close collaboration with cantonal authorities for the protec-tion of nature and landscapes. It issues a technical/sciencific...

    Last updated: February 14, 2011

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Mapping of Floodplains of National Importance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

    In order to give cantons the option of taking the protection of floodplains of probable national importance into their own hands as quickly as possible, the Swiss Agency for the...

    Last updated: May 11, 2020

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Amphibians appendix 3

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    There are currently 19 different amphibian species that live in Switzerland, and nearly all of them are included in the Red List of Threatened Species. The areas that contain...

    Last updated: November 1, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • WMS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Sites of National Importance - Shifting Sites

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    There are currently 19 different amphibian species that live in Switzerland, and nearly all of them are included in the Red List of Threatened Species. The areas that contain...

    Last updated: November 1, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Mire Landscapes of Particular Beauty and National Significance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Mire landscapes are essentially semi-natural landscapes shaped by mires that are also home to other noteworthy natural and cultural elements. They are the last remaining habitats...

    Last updated: November 1, 2017

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Distribution of ibex colonies

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

    After being resettled in 1906, Alpine (Capra) ibex live in colonies of varying sizes throughout the Alpine region and in the Jura mountains. Because the growth of stocks in...

    Last updated: March 31, 2021

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • wild-animal
    • game-animals
    • species-distribution
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • National Ecological Network REN, extensive agricultural area

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National Ecological Network (REN) was developed in close collaboration with cantonal authorities for the protection of nature and landscapes. It issues a technical/sciencific...

    Last updated: February 14, 2011

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • National Ecological Network (REN), forest area

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The National Ecological Network (REN) was developed in close collaboration with cantonal authorities for the protec-tion of nature and landscapes. It issues a technical/sciencific...

    Last updated: February 14, 2011

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure