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What does the name of a place mean? Where does it come from, and what was it called in the past? These were the questions addressed by sixth-grade students in the canton of Jura. Their project on toponymy — the study of the origin of geographical names — was documented in a video and published on schoolmaps.ch.

The previously offered INSPIRE ATOM/OpenSearch download services have been removed from the Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure (FSDI). The corresponding datasets remain fully available for download via the STAC API REST interface.

The new technical documentation for the Federal spatial data infrastructure https://docs.geo.admin.ch is now available. It replaces the previous technical documentation on api3.geo.admin.ch and offers modern, clearly structured access to all information related to the use of the federal geoservices.

Users of our maps and geodata can easily submit correction requests via map.geo.admin.ch or the swisstopo app and send them to swisstopo with just a few clicks. These notifications are then published as points in the webmap viewer. We have now optimized this reporting process and, above all, improved communication with users. Senders of correction requests will now be actively informed by email as soon as the processing status of their report changes.

Is it possible to reach two places that are the same distance away in the same amount of time? The ‘Off the Beaten Track’ teaching idea on sCHoolmaps.ch invites pupils to explore travel times from six major Swiss cities.

The website test.map.geo.admin.ch was launched in January 2024 as a test version of the Swiss federal geoportal map.geo.admin.ch. As of September 2025, the test version is no longer available. All of its features have been integrated into the main website: map.geo.admin.ch.