Vector Tiles Service: available services and data

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Vector Tiles Service: available services and data

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Vector tiles are packets of geodata that are packaged in predefined, roughly square-shaped "tiles" and transmitted over the web.
They can be used to provide stylized web maps and combine the advantages of pre-rendered raster map tiles with vector map data.

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Description

As with WMTS, the data is requested by the client as a set of "tiles" corresponding to square land areas with a predefined size and position.
Vector tiles contain vector representations of data across a range of scales. Unlike raster tiles:

  • they can adapt to the resolution of your display device
  • they are much smaller and faster to load
  • they are optimized for mobile devices.


In addition, vector tiles allow you to create your own cartographic style without hosting or maintaining the underlying data.
The tile architecture also allows the use of standard network mechanisms for scalability such as distributed cache systems.

Map viewer: test.map.geo.admin.ch

Examples overlay with thematic maps

All other +850 data sets in test.map.geo.admin.ch are available for overlaying

Interactivity: switch application language

Modify the portrayal

You can change the representation of an existing Vector Tile dataset yourself according to your wishes and needs and make it available on a platform you use on the Internet. Please note that only members of the federal administration have worldwide coverage with OpenMapTiles data for self-hosted map applications.

Switzerland and Lichtenstein are freely available, as well as the corresponding style file.

  1. Open the “official” style file (file JSON) with a web based vector style editor, e.g. maputnik Editor or maptiler Editor
  2. Adapt the style according to your needs
  3. Export your custom style in a JSON file and host it on a Web server: the file should be accessible via an URL.

Using your custom style:

  1. In test.map.geo.admin.ch:  you need to modify the URL of the viewer as follows: add the parameter "&bgLayer_styleUrl=" followed by the URL of your custom style, e.g. https://test.map.geo.admin.ch/?lang=de&bgLayer_styleUrl=https://cms.geo.admin.ch/www.geo.admin.ch/cms_api/gl-styles/lbm_v1.0.0_simplified_grey.json
  2. Or in your own application 

 

Available geodata

The Vector Tiles service provides the following datasets:
Dataset Description Tile Style Offline
Light Base Map
Coverage: Switzerland and Liechtenstein

The map combines different data sets of the federal government (ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte.vt). The geographic coverage corresponds to Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein.  It corresponds to the swisstopo product: Light Base Map / Schema

Terms of use: the map and the geoservice that provides it may be used in accordance with swisstopo's Terms of Use for Free Geodata and Geoservices (OGD) and the General Terms of Use and Operating Conditions of the Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure FSDI.

 Tile request Style request mbtiles
Light Base Map
Coverage: global

The use of the vectortiles.geo.admin.ch service with the light base map map (consisting of org.openstreetmap-openmaptiles.vt, org.openmaptiles-contours.vt, org.openmaptiles-relief.vt ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte.vt) is only permitted for administrative units of the Federal Administration in accordance with Annex 1 of the Government and Administration Organization Ordinance.  The data for the area outside of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein will be obtained through the third-party provider openmaptiles.org by the Federal Administration for the period 1.1.2021-31.12..2022. The service is used in the swisstopo product Light Base Map for the Federal Administration.

Terms of use: the map combines different data sets with different terms of use. The map and the geoservice that provides it may be used in accordance with the General Terms of Use and Operating Conditions of the Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure FSDI. In the case of digital or analog representations and publications by the administrative units of the Federal Administration, the following source reference must be provided in all cases: (with appropriate links) © swisstopo,© MapTiler © OpenStreetMap contributors

 Federal government administrative units may contact info@geo.admin.ch. External users may contact the external provider maptiler.ch.

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geo.admin.ch c/o
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
COGIS (Coordination, Geo-Information and Services)
Seftigenstrasse 264
P.O. Box
3084 Wabern
Tel.
0041 58 469 03 15
Fax
0041 58 469 04 59

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geo.admin.ch

c/o
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
COGIS (Coordination, Geo-Information and Services)
Seftigenstrasse 264
P.O. Box
3084 Wabern