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Topographical Map (Dufour Map)
The first official map of Switzerland. First issued between 1844 and 1864, updated up to 1939. 25 sheets. Map format: 70 x 48 cm = 3360 km2. Representation of the terrain: Shaded hachures. Form of reproduction: Copperplate engraving. Printing process: Gravure printing (also planographic printing from 1905). Number of colours: 1 (2 from 1908 and 3 from 1938). Untrue equal-area conic projection. Ellipsoid: Schmidt 1828. Starting altitude: (Repère Pierre du Niton 376.2 metres above sea level).
Simple
- Alternate title
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Dufour Map First edition
- Date (Creation)
- 1843-01-01T00:00:00
- Date (Last Revision)
- 1939-01-01T00:00:00
- Identifier
- ch.swisstopo.hiks-dufour
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Presentation form
- Hardcopy map
- Purpose
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Georeferenzdaten
- Status
- Historical archive
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
- Spatial representation type
- paperMap
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 100000
- Topic category
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- A Imagery base maps earth cover
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Dufour Map
- Geographic identifier
- TM
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
- Duration of Conservation
- 275
- Appraisal of Archival Value
- A
- Reason for Archiving Value
- Evidence of business practice
- geocat.ch
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individual Symbol
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opendata.swiss
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national map
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historic map
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terrain representation
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place name
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official geodata
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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- GEMET
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province
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history
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nomenclature
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relief (land)
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rock
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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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water (geographic)
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- GEMET
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mountain
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- geocat.ch
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topography
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- GEMET
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map chart
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Resource constraints
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
Associated resource
- Title
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Historische Karten
- Association Type
- Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Subtopic Category
- A1 Base Maps, Landscape Models
- Basic Geodata
- true
- Basic Geodata ID
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49.2
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Basic Geodata Type
- Reference Geodata
- Distribution format
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GeoTIFF (GEOTIFF)
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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.hiks-dufour
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Dufour Map First edition"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.swisstopo.hiks-dufour
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Dufour Map First edition"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Dufourkarte
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API von geo.admin.ch
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Statement
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basiert auf eidgenössischen und kantonalen Aufnahmen
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Number of dimensions
- 2
- Dimension name
- Column
- Dimension size
- 14000
- Resolution
- 508 m
- Dimension name
- Row
- Dimension size
- 9600
- Resolution
- 508 m
- Cell geometry
- Area
- Transformation parameter availability
- 0
- Reference system identifier
- CH1903
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- d12f970f-6a83-4c33-8cfe-7504b6a5dca9
- 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/d12f970f-6a83-4c33-8cfe-7504b6a5dca9
- Date info (Creation)
- 2009-06-11T12:00:00Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-04-13T09:36:18.772801Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
