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Municipal boundaries G0: time series since 1850

The « Municipal boundaries: time series since 1850 » product from the SFSO provides municipal geometries for all municipal states between 01.01.1850 and 31.12.2015 according to the Historisiertes Gemeindeverzeichnis (Historical List of Swiss Municipalities), for the entire territory of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. For the period from 2016 to the present day, this time series is supplemented by the swissBOUNDARIES3D dataset published by swisstopo.

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Date (Creation)
2023-11-02
Date (Revision)
2025-02-14
Citation identifier
ch.bfs.gemeidegrenzen_G0_zeitreihe

Citation identifier

No information provided.
Purpose

Provide municipal boundaries between 1850 and 2016

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

BFS/OFS GEOSTAT

geostat@bfs.admin.ch

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Resource format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile (SHP)

GeoJSON (GEOJSON)

OGC Geopackage (GPKG)

GEMET

  • sub-national boundary

  • lake

  • administrative boundary

  • municipality

  • national boundary

geocat.ch

  • district

  • canton

  • political boundary

  • official geodata

  • opendata.swiss

  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

Access constraints
Intellectual property rights
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Opendata BY ASK: Open use. Must provide the source. Use for commercial purposes requires permission of the data owner.
Aggregate Datasetindentifier
86cb844f-296b-40cb-b972-5b1ae8028f7c
Association Type
isTemporalStatOf
Spatial representation type
Vector
Language
Deutsch
Language
Français
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
Environment description

ESRI ArcGIS

Extent

Description

Switzerland

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Reference system identifier
EPSG: 2056
Distribution format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile (SHP)

GeoJSON (GEOJSON)

OGC Geopackage (GPKG)

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

MAP:Preview

https://map.geo.admin.ch/index.html?lang=de&topic=bfs&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.swissimage&layers=ch.swisstopo.swissboundaries3d-gemeinde-flaeche.fill&layers_timestamp=1850&E=2660000&N=1190000&zoom=1&time=1850

Preview map.geo.admin.ch

CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal

https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/dienstleistungen/geostat.html

GEOSTAT

WWW:LINK

https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/dienstleistungen/geostat/geodaten-bundesstatistik/raumgliederungen/generalisierte-gemeindegrenzen.assetdetail.34367723.html

List of variables

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL

https://data.geo.admin.ch/browser/index.html#/collections/ch.bfs.historisierte-administrative_grenzen_g0

Geodata

CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal

https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/dienstleistungen/geostat/geodaten-bundesstatistik/raumgliederungen/gemeindegrenzen-zeitreihe.html

Thematic information

WWW:LINK

https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/dienstleistungen/geostat/geodaten-bundesstatistik/raumgliederungen/generalisierte-gemeindegrenzen.assetdetail.34367720.html

Data description

ESRI:REST

https://data.geo.admin.ch/api/stac/v0.9/collections/ch.bfs.historisierte-administrative_grenzen_g0

RESTful API from geo.admin.ch

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source
  • 9961dc6c-20a9-4b16-8a24-b20c3d8ddb83
  • swissBOUNDARIES3D

Metadata

File identifier
5302e4a5-fbea-4e04-a9bd-8955bb73ab05 XML
Metadata language
Deutsch
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-02-13T16:33:22.75Z
Metadata standard name

GM03 2+

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

BFS/OFS GEOSTAT

geostat@bfs.admin.ch

Point of contact
Other language
Language Character encoding
French UTF8
Italian UTF8
English UTF8
Romansh UTF8
German UTF8
 
 

Overviews

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET

administrative boundary lake municipality national boundary sub-national boundary
geocat.ch

FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure canton district official geodata opendata.swiss political boundary


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