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Built-up areas as defined in Swiss civil aviation legislation
In Swiss civil aviation legislation, the term "built-up areas" refers to the definition of areas, in both quantitative terms and with respect to aviation criteria, that is applied in Articles 63 and 65a of the Federal Ordinance of 23 November 1994 on Civil Aviation Infrastructure (SR 748.131.1).
A licensing requirement in built-up and non-built-up areas applies for objects with a height of 100 metres or more (or 60 metres or more for high-voltage power lines, wind turbines turbines, slacklines), as well as for the penetration of an obstacle-free zone or a security zone.
A registration requirement applies for objects with a height of 60 metres or more in a built-up area, and a height of 25 metres or more in a non-built-up area (or in the case of mobile cranes, a height of 40 metres or more).
Owners are required to notify the FOCA in advance of the construction or alteration of such buildings and installations or temporary objects.
This vector dataset for Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein is automatically generated from the building plans incorporated in "swissTLM3D" – the Swiss 3D topographic landscape model produced by the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) – and is periodically updated.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
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Built-up areas VIL
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-08-24
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-03-24
- Citation identifier
- ch.bazl.bebaute-gebiete_luftfahrtrecht
Citation identifier
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office of Civil Aviation
- Position name
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Airspace
Address
- City
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Bern
- Postal code
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3003
- Country
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CH
- Electronic mail address
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markus.luginbuehl@bazl.adm markus.luginbuehl@bazl.admin.ch
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- First Name
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Markus
- Last Name
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Luginbühl
- Organisation Acronym
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FOCA
- Name
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
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geocat.ch
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air navigation
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air navigation obstacle
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opendata.swiss
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geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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GEMET
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aviation law
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built-up area
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- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
- Other constraints
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 1000
- Denominator
- 100000
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- P Transportation
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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Extent
- Description
-
Liechtenstein
))
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
()
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
()
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
()
- OnLine resource
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Preview map.geo.admin.ch
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MAP:Preview
)
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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ch.bazl.bebaute-gebiete_luftfahrtrecht
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OGC:WMS
)
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Built-up areas VIL"
- OnLine resource
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ch.bazl.bebaute-gebiete_luftfahrtrecht
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OGC:WMTS
)
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Built-up areas VIL"
- OnLine resource
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Link to portal
(
CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
)
Link to portal
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
(
ESRI:REST
)
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-12-15T11:45:22.508Z
- Metadata standard name
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GM03_2
Metadata author
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office of Civil Aviation
- Position name
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Specialist unit for geographical information systems (GIS)
- Voice
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+41 (0)58 465 80 39
Address
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- Organisation Acronym
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FOCA
Legislation Information
- Country
- Switzerland
- Legislation Type
- Other legal text on national level
- Alternate title
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VIL
- Date (Creation)
- 1994-11-23
- Date (Publication)
- 1995-01-01
- Name
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SR 748.131.1
