CommunicationPublished on 25 September 2024

Old styles for Light Base Map and Imagery Base Map no longer available from January 2025

Since March 2024, the Light Base Map and Imagery Base Map background maps have been available via the styles "ch.swisstopo.lightbasemap.vt" and "ch.swisstopo.imagerybasemap.vt" (see also Vector Tiles Service: available services and data (admin.ch)) .

As already announced in March 2024 in the release notes – GeoAdmin API 3.0, the old styles, including the variants with worldwide coverage

• ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte.vt
• ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte-imagery.vt
• ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte_world.vt
• ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte-imagery_world.vt

and the referenced vector tileset

• ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte.vt

will no longer be available from mid-January 2025.

If you use one of these resources in your application, we ask that you replace it with the corresponding new variant. The following table shows the mapping from the old to the new resource:

Old (no longer available from January 2025)	New	Type
ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte.vt	ch.swisstopo.lightbasemap.vt	Style
ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte-imagery.vt	ch.swisstopo.imagerybasemap.vt	Style
ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte_world.vt	ch.swisstopo.lightbasemap_world.vt	Style
ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte-imagery_world.vt	ch.swisstopo.imagerybasemap_world.vt	Style
ch.swisstopo.leichte-basiskarte.vt	ch.swisstopo.base.vt	Vector Tileset