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Geography, Territory and environment
swissBOUNDARIES3D municipal boundaries constitute the administrative borders of the municipalities of Switzerland and the principality of Liechtenstein. The commune is the small...
swissNAMES3D is the most comprehensive collection of geographical names for Switzerland and Liechtenstein. swissNAMES3D contains about 400,000 georeferenced entries divided in d...
swissBOUNDARIES3D cantonal boundaries constitute the administrative borders of the Swiss cantons. The Swiss Confederation consists of 26 cantons which have the status of constit...
swissBOUNDARIES national boundaries constitute the borders of Switzerland and the principality of Liechtenstein. swissBOUNDARIES3D national boundaries is a derivate of the paren...
The perimeters of the Alpine Convention in Switzerland. The Alpine Convention is an international treaty between the eight Alpine countries: Germany, France, Italy, Liechtenstei...
The wind energy concept is a concept as defined in Article 13 of the Swiss Spatial Planning Act (SPA, SR 700). The concept defines both the principal federal government interest...
Der Kartendienst Wohnungsinventar zeigt als Status in blauer Grundierung die Gemeinden, die den baurechtlichen Bestimmungen des Zweitwohnungsgesetzes (ZWG, SR 702) unterstehen u...
Geography, Mobility and Transport
The public transport quality categories are an important indicator for evaluating accessibility by public transport. They are calculated using an automated process on the basis ...
The typology of municipalities ARE is the result of a combination of the large regions, the agglomeration definition 2000 and the municipality typology of the Federal Office of ...
The indicator "travelling time to centres with public transport" describes the time taken to travel from a municipality to the next centre using public transport. "Travelling ti...
The indicator "travelling time to centres with IMT" describes the time taken to travel from a municipality to the next centre using individual motorised transport. "Travelling t...
The landscape typology of Switzerland provides a technical basis for addressing a range of questions relating to spatial effects. The landscape typology of Switzerland is primar...
The Swiss National Basic Climatological Network (Swiss NBCN) connects the major ground-based stations within the MeteoSwiss monitoring network. It consists of 29 climate monitor...
In addition to its automatic precipitation measurements, MeteoSwiss also operates a manual precipitation monitoring network. Measurements are taken here once a day and transmitt...
MeteoSwiss is responsible for flight safety from a meteorological perspective and makes an important contribution to aviation safety with its meteorological readings. The high v...
In order to obtain information on the current weather conditions along Switzerland's main flight paths, MeteoSwiss operates a camera network with around 35 weather cameras (webc...
MeteoSwiss monitors the atmosphere and measures its properties and composition. To do so, it uses various instruments and methods, including radio soundings, remote sensing devi...
The information on current weather events is supplemented by visual human observations. The atmospheric conditions around the observation site are described in detail. Visual ob...
SwissMetNet, the automatic monitoring network of MeteoSwiss, comprises about 160 automatic monitoring stations. These stations deliver a multitude of current data on the weather...
Twice a day, MeteoSwiss carries out radio sounding using sounding balloons for the purpose of measuring key meteorological parameters in the atmosphere at high elevations. Radio...
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