Overview

Discover how to access geospatial data provided by the Swiss Confederation through the web services of the federal geoportal.

We provide tutorials on how to interact with these services:

• Explore Data: Browse additional information about layers, including attributes and other metadata.
• Access Data: Retrieve location-based features such as geometries, addresses and elevation.
• Visualize Data: Access map data (2D and 3D) for visualization in your application.
• Download Data: Download entire datasets for exploration and analysis.
• Map Viewer: Embed the map viewer in your webpage.

The tutorials are written for a tech-savvy audience like geoinformaticians, data scientists, GIS specialists and web developers.

Where available we link to more detailed specifications, for example to our STAC API.

⚖️ Terms of Use

The access and use of the data or the services is free of charge, subject to the provisions on fair use, see our Terms of Use.