INSPIRE Geoportal
Imagery Base Map worldwide (Vector Tile Style)
“Imagery Base Map” offers a good overview of the current landscape thanks to a combination of orthoimages (rectified aerial photographs) and cartographic elements. It is based on official data: the topographic landscape model, the digital elevation model, the digital cartographic models and the official index of roads. The content varies depending on the zoom level.
The vector representation is based on the Maplibre Style Specification. The data basis consists of vector tiles (Base Vector Tileset). The orthoimages (SWISSIMAGE) are displayed as raster tiles.
Vector tiles from OpenStreetMap provided by openmaptiles.org are used abroad.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Imagery Base Map World
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-04-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-03-01
- Citation identifier
- ch.swisstopo.imagerybasemap_world.vt
Citation identifier
- Collective title
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National survey
- Status
- On going
- 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
Owner
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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geocat.ch
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orthophoto
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base map
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official geodata
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Orthoimagery
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Geographical names
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- Use limitation
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The terms of use for free geodata and geoservices (OGD) from swisstopo apply, as do the general terms of use and operating regulations of the federal spatial data infrastructure FSDI.
For digital or analogue representations and publications, the following source reference must be included: © swisstopo, © OpenStreetMap contributors, © maptiler
Restrictions of use:
The "Mapbox Vector Tiles" geoservice has usage restrictions imposed due to the incorporation of OpenMaptiles data. As per licensing requirements, the global data can only be utilised by administrative units of the Swiss central federal administration, following specification in Annex 1 of the Government and Administration Organisation Ordinance (Annex 1 RVOV, SR 172.010.1). However, users outside the Federal Administration can access the vector tilesets covering Switzerland and Liechtenstein provided by swisstopo free of charge.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Terms of use for free geodata and geoservices (OGD) from swisstopo
- Other constraints
- General Terms of Use and Operating Conditions of the Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure FSDI
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 5000
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
Extent
- Description
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National map 1:1'000'000
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- Geographic identifier
- NM1000
- Supplemental Information
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Global expansion (see restriction of use)
Units of the central federal administration can apply to swisstopo ( webgis@swisstopo.ch) for a key to access geodata services outside Switzerland.
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:3857
- Distribution format
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Name Version JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK
https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/webkarten-imagery-base-map WWW:LINK
https://www.geo.admin.ch/de/geo-dienstleistungen/geodienste/darstellungsdienste-webmapping-webgis-anwendungen/vector_tiles_service.html Web Service description
WWW:DOWNLOAD:JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
https://vectortiles.geo.admin.ch/styles/ch.swisstopo.imagerybasemap_world.vt/style.json?key=YourAPIkey Download Vector Tile Style
ESRI:REST
https://api3.geo.admin.ch/services/sdiservices.html#mapbox-vector-tiles
Metadata
- File identifier
- e192e265-7bd3-4897-9291-3febcf19aad3 XML
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-26T09:02:26.085Z
- 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
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8 Italian UTF8 English UTF8 Romansh UTF8 German UTF8
