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SwissNames500
SwissNames500 is a detailed and complete database of geographical names in Switzerland, based on content of the swiss National Map 1:500'000. Coordinates X and Y are attributed to the main focus of each object name as well as further information such as the name and number of the municipality and the abbreviation of the canton. Certain object names also include the height.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2006-06-07
Point of contact
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 500000
- Topic category
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- B Location
Extent
Extent
- Description
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National Map 1:500'000
- Geographic identifier
- NM500
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- Maintenance note
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SwissNames is updated every year and available in June. Updates are based on indications from cantonal authorities and on data collected on field by the topographers during theNational Map's update.
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place name
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toponymy
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geodata
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place
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national map
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GIS (Geographic Information System)
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geo-referenced data
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geo-referenced information
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geographic information system
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- GEMET
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mountain
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nomenclature
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- License
Associated resource
- Title
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Geografische Namen (Landesvermessung)
- Association Type
- Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Compliance code
- 0
- Language
- Deutsch
- Language
- Français
- Included with dataset
- 0
- Title
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SwissNames : die Namendatenbank der Schweiz
- Date (Publication)
- 2001-08-15
- Distribution format
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Text
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
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- Statement
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Content based on the swiss National Map 1:500'000. Updates are based on indications from cantonal authorities and on data collected on field by the topographers during theNational Map's update.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Topology level
- Topology 1D
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Geometric object count
- 2011
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:21781
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 4e9128a0-746a-42d8-b8a4-3b8e6ac9f228
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/4e9128a0-746a-42d8-b8a4-3b8e6ac9f228
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-02-01T06:46:11Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-04-13T09:41:20.975331Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
