140 datasets found

Electricity production plants

Energy, Environment

An electricity production plant is a technical facility for generating electricity. It is in the public interest to have a spatial overview of all electricity production plants ...

Sustainable potential of woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzerland...

Energy, Environment

Biomass is a renewable resource for energy which can be transformed into several forms of energy: heat, electricity, biogas or liquid fuels. Woody types of biomass were investig...

Sustainable potential of non-woody biomass resources for bioenergy in Switzer...

Energy, Environment

Biomass is a renewable resource for energy which can be transformed into several forms of energy: heat, electricity, biogas or liquid fuels. Non-woody types of biomass were inve...

Waste incineration plants (MWI)

Energy, Environment

Waste incineration is the burning of combustible waste components to reduce the volume of the waste while using the energy it contains.In 2017, Switzerland had 30 municipal wast...

Nuclear Power Plants

Energy, Environment

Nuclear power plants are facilities for the commercial generation of electrical power from controlled nuclear fission. The four Swiss nuclear power plants have a total output of...

Inclination Map of Switzerland 1:500000

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 (vector map)

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...

GeoMaps 500 Raster

Six «GeoMaps» at 1:500000 scale give a broad overview of the composition and major features of the underlying structure of Switzerland. The geological map provides an overview o...

Image strips swisstopo

In context of the update cycle of the national maps and the production of the orthoimage mosaic SWISSIMAGE, swisstopo records the whole area of Switzerland with aerial image str...

Official index of cities and towns including postal codes and perimeter

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...

swissBOUNDARIES3D

swissBOUNDARIES3D contains all administrative units and national boundaries of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein in vector form. The product is based on an optim...

swissNAMES3D geographical names of the national Survey

swissNAMES3D is the most comprehensive collection of geographical names for Switzerland and Liechtenstein. swissNAMES3D contains over 400,000 georeferenced entries divided in di...

Geological atlas 25 Vector

The sheets of the Geological Atlas of Switzerland (GA25) give detailed information about the uppermost layers of the subsurface structure. Geological formations are represented ...

Gravimetric Map of Switzerland (Isostatic Anomalies) 1:500000

Isostatic anomalies can be deduced using the Pratt or Airy hypothesis. These anomalies correspond to the static flotation of the Earth’s crust in the upper mantle. The deviation...

Gravimetric Map of Switzerland (Bouguer Anomalies) 1:500000

Gravitational acceleration or gravity depends on the location of the measuring point and the mass distribution in the subsurface structure. A Bouguer anomaly is the difference b...

swissTLM3D Hydrographical network

swissTLM3D hydrographical network contains the watercourses and lake contours of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. It is part of the dataset swissTLM3D. With a ...

swissTLM3D

swissTLM3D is the large-scale topographical landscape model of Switzerland. It includes both natural and artificial landscape features, as well as name data in vector form. With...

Natural stone: mining

Natural stone is extracted from hard rock in quarries in the form of hewn or sawn blocks for direct use in construction. This dataset shows the active and decommissioned natural...

Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000

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...

National Map 1:1 million

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 ...

Natural stones on buildings

This dataset shows the use of stone in the construction of over 4,000 buildings in Switzerland. The data was collected by Francis de Quervain between 1954 and 1983. Over the pas...

swissALTI3D

swissALTI3D is an extremely precise digital elevation model which describes the surface of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein without vegetation and development. ...

swissTLM3D Other transportations

swissTLM3D other transportations contains the different types of cable railway and other types of mechanical transport. It is part of the dataset swissTLM3D. With a high accurac...

Geothermal Map of Switzerland 1:500000

The geothermal map shows the thermal energy that is produced in the subsurface and traverses the Earth's surface within an area of 1 m2. The heat itself is released in the Earth...

Aeromagnetic Map of Switzerland 1:500000

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...