INSPIRE Geoportal
Official index of cities and towns including postal codes and perimeter
In Article 24 of the regulations governing geographic names (GeoNV), the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) is commissioned to establish, administer and publish the new official index of cities and towns including postal codes and perimeter. The data are stored centrally at swisstopo.The data set covers all of Switzerland and is available free of charge (Datensatz wird monatlich nachgeführt).
I dati sono stati pubblicati in un nuovo modello di dati dal 1° gennaio 2024.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Official index of cities and towns
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-01T00:00:00
- Date (Creation)
- 2010-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- ch.swisstopo-vd.ortschaftenverzeichnis_plz
Citation identifier
- Collective title
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Répertoire officiel des localités avec le code postal et le périmètre
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Point of contact Federal office of topography swisstopo, survey
Owner
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Monthly
- Maintenance note
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In collaboration with the Swiss Post Office, the data were collected by the cantonal surveying authorities who are responsible for their maintenance and update.
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geocat.ch
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e-geo.ch
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place
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post code
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official geodata
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opendata.swiss
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cadastral surveying
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Administrative units
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Addresses
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geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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User contact info
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- Français
- Language
- Deutsch
- Language
- Italiano
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Location
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
ESRI Personal Geodatabase (Personal-GDB)
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INTERLIS 2 (XTF)
TEXT, semicolon separated (CSV)
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name MAP:Preview
https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.swisstopo-vd.ortschaftenverzeichnis_plz Preview map.geo.admin.ch
OGC:WMS
https://wms.geo.admin.ch/?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&lang=fr ch.swisstopo-vd.ortschaftenverzeichnis_plz
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/fr/repertoire-officiel-des-localites
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK
https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/fr/repertoire-officiel-des-localites
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name ESRI:REST
https://api3.geo.admin.ch/rest/services/api/MapServer/ch.swisstopo-vd.ortschaftenverzeichnis_plz RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Included with dataset
- Title
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Geodata Model for Official Index of Localities
- Alternate title
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OfficialIndexOfLocalities
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-01-01
Metadata
- File identifier
- 972cd117-f1ed-4818-be14-233d89ab9fdf XML
- Metadata language
- Français
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-10-30T15:26:44.219Z
- Metadata standard name
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GM03 2+
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Federal office of topography swisstopo, survey
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding German UTF8 Italian UTF8 English UTF8 Romansh UTF8 French UTF8
