swisstopo colloquium: From satellite pixels to forest stress: In an upcoming colloquium, #swisstopo offers a look at an operational #EarthObservation pipeline turning #Sentinel-2 data into near #realtime insight for #drought #monitoring in Switzerland. – @davidoesch #eo #remotesensing
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/11/06-swisstopo-colloquium-from-satellite-pixels-to-forest-stress/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Spaziergang im Simmental. Mit dem #AR-Assistenten.

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/mont2/

Und wer's ganz genau wissen will:

https://phaidra.fhstp.ac.at/detail/o:7234

#html5 #augmentedreality #geoinformatics #geography #topography #ios #opendata #geodata #swisstopo #switzerland @spatialists @OpendataCH

Improved Swiss Base Map: The “#BaseMap” from Switzerland’s NMGA #swisstopo is an award-winning interactive cartographic product that integrates data from multiple partners and was recognized with the 2025 #ICA #MapAward. An article by Swisstopo explains how the map was...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/24-improved-swiss-base-map/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Mapterhorn terrain tiles: Discover #Mapterhorn by Oliver Wipfli: a collection of global #terrain tiles in the lightweight #PMTiles format, built from open data sources such as Switzerland’s ultra-detailed #swissALTI3D model by #swisstopo. With open-source pipelines,...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/02-mapterhorn-terrain-tiles/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Das Wandern ist des Schweizers Lust: "Mont" ist eine #AugmentedReality-#Webapp, die Schweizer Berggipfel und Hügelkuppen benennt und auf dem Handybildschirm anzeigt (iOS only).

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/mont2/

Endlich ist nun auch mein Paper über die verwendete Technik erschienen:

https://phaidra.fhstp.ac.at/detail/o:7234

Für alle, die hoch hinaus wollen - mit #VanillaJS oder in Wanderschuhen.

#html5 #ar #geoinformatics #geography #topography #ios #opendata #geodata #swisstopo #switzerland @OpendataCH

Was genau will mir die #Swisstopo App sagen?

Ich bin 21.6 km in 7h55m, dabei 862 m rauf und 1144 m runter gegangen?

… oder…

ich bin 21.6 km in 7h55m, dabei 935 m rauf und 1188 m runter gegangen?

Was denn nun?

Und was bedeuten die 06:38 oben rechts? Es kann weder Start noch Stop Zeitpunkt sein. Also netto Laufdauer, ohne Pause? Das könnte passen, weil kurz vor Ende der Tour eine grössere Pause stattfand.

Ich finde die Anzeige irreführend. Wer weiss Rat?

Last Wednesday the Birchgletscher in the Swiss Alps collapsed, devastating large parts of the village #Blatten and blocking the Lonza river which created a small lake which destroyed even more houses.

Thanks to aerial images shared by #swisstopo, I was able to create a 3D model of the area.

You can explore it here https://skfb.ly/pxHLC

The SwissTopo app is THE app to have during hikes in Switzerland. Of course it features its own, best-in-the-world, maps and you can create routes, get estimates on remaining time/elevation/distance.

But of course it can still be improved. For me it would be the ability to create routes on the PC (instead of using Schweizmobil) and manage routes better. Basically a combination of SwissTopo and Schweizmobil would be super.

I met the person responsible for the SwissTopo app development today and this Saturday there is a Open House at the SwissTopo HQ and will probably go.

Which improvements would you like to see and I should relay to them?

Es gibt eine Antwort von Swisstopo. Ich hatte ja gestern dort nachgefragt, ob sie evtl. im Fediverse aktiv werden wollen, jetzt wo sie die Plattform X verlassen. Die Antwort möchte ich Euch nicht vorenthalten - vielleicht schreibt ja sonst noch jemand, damit sie sehen, dass das Fedi auch für staatliche Seiten bereit ist.

I took the new #iOS18 out for a #Hike today. I decided to try the new custom route feature of #Maps. I expected some differences because of the differences in the map material being used, i.e. Apple Maps versus Swisstopo maps. I consider the Swisstopo map material to be way more accurate. What I did not expect is the differences being this huge.

https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/

The latest report (in German) on the costs and impacts of #OpenGovernmentData from the Federal Office of Topography #swisstopo is a validation and critique of advocating for data as a public good.

For governments this paper should be a nice check on expectations and outcomes, for example for Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology #MeteoSwiss - who from 1 April 2025 plans to make its data available for free reuse.

https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/wirkungsevaluation-zur-einfuehrung-von-ogd

Today I learned about yet another cool map layer on SwissTopo, makers of the beautiful and useful maps of Switzerland.

If your start to type "Last glacial maximum (map) 500" the layer is shown and tells you at what elevation the ice was. No bathing in Lake Thun at that time.

Link directly to the map with layer activated:

https://map.geo.admin.ch/?lang=en&topic=ech&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe&layers=ch.swisstopo.zeitreihen,ch.bfs.gebaeude_wohnungs_register,ch.bav.haltestellen-oev,ch.swisstopo.swisstlm3d-wanderwege,ch.astra.wanderland-sperrungen_umleitungen,ch.swisstopo.geologie-eiszeit-lgm-raster&layers_opacity=1,1,1,0.8,0.8,1&layers_visibility=false,false,false,false,false,true&layers_timestamp=18641231,,,,,&E=2621555.71&N=1171239.45&zoom=4

There are a lot more layers like noice levels of airports, temperatures 4000 meter under ground, Swiss parks, etc. Just start typing a letter and see what kind of maps can be selected.

TIL that the new style #SwissTopo maps show railway station platforms as solid grey areas (rather similar to #OpenStreetMap, but without a casing).

Also bollards are shown on some roads as red dots (see Hohlstrasse on N side of Bäckeranlage - protecting a school).

@SwissOSM

Begründung für 7.2 Mio. Freihänder von #Swisstopo an #ESRI ist ziemlich dürftig. Und die Wartungskosten von ~1 Mio./J. werden dann erst recht freihändig vergeben. Aber wer will sich schon mit einer Beschwerde die Finger verbrennen... #SwissGIS #opensource #VendorLockin
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