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swissNAMES3D geographical names of the national Survey
swissNAMES3D is the most comprehensive collection of geographical names for Switzerland and Liechtenstein. swissNAMES3D contains over 437,000 georeferenced entries divided in different categories. The dataset replaces since 2015 the old product swissNAMES updated until 2008. In the federal geoportal the layer "geographical names" corresponds to a selection of swissNAMES3D for the different zoomlevels.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Geographical Names swissNAMES3D
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2025-05-28
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-01-01T00:00:00
- Identifier
- ch.swisstopo.swissnames3d
Point of contact
Owner
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 5000
- Topic category
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- B Location
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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Extent
Extent
- Description
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Liechtenstein
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Maintenance note
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Die Daten werden gemäss einem Nachführungszyklus von 6 Jahren aktualisiert.
- Duration of Conservation
- 275
- Appraisal of Archival Value
- A
- Reason for Archiving Value
- Evidence of business practice
- geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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official geodata
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Geographical names
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- geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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- GEMET
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mountain
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- GEMET
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nomenclature
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Resource constraints
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
Associated resource
- Title
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Geographical Names (National Survey)
- Association Type
- Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Basic Geodata
- true
- Basic Geodata ID
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40.7
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Basic Geodata Type
- Reference Geodata
- Distribution format
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ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
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TEXT, comma separated (CSV)
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.swisstopo.swissnames3d
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Geographical Names swissNAMES3D"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.swisstopo.swissnames3d
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Geographical Names swissNAMES3D"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Download
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Information
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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map.geo.admin.ch
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API von geo.admin.ch
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Geometric object type
- Curve
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:21782
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- ab24e5cc-7f53-451a-820a-f113fa545943
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Rumantsch
- 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/ab24e5cc-7f53-451a-820a-f113fa545943
- Date info (Creation)
- 2015-05-01T11:17:58Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-04-13T09:37:42.205819Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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GM03_2
