INSPIRE Geoportal
Geographical Names Switzerland - INSPIRE
Geographical Names is based on the data set swissNAMES3D by swisstopo. It is the most comprehensive collection of geographical names for Switzerland and Liechtenstein. swissNAMES3D contains over 437'000 georeferenced entries divided in different categories. The dataset replaces since 2015 the old product swissNAMES updated until 2008. In the federal geoportal the layer "geographical names" corresponds to a selection of swissNAMES3D for the different zoomlevels. This is the INSPIRE-compliant product derivation.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Geographical Names
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-05-02
- Date (lastRevision)
- 2025-05-28
- Citation identifier
- ch.swisstopo.swissnames3d.inspire
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
- Maintenance note
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The data is updated according to a 6 year cycle.
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geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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official geodata
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toponymy
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INSPIRE
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place name
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Geographical names
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Spatial scope
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National
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geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- noLimitations
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 5000
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Location
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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Extent
- Description
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Liechtenstein
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- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/2056
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3035
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3857
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/25832
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
- Distribution format
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Name Version Geographic Markup Language (GML)
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
https://data.geo.admin.ch/ch.swisstopo.swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire_25832.gml.zip Geographical Names Switzerland - INSPIRE - reference system ETRS89 / UTM zone 32N - format application/x-gmz
WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
https://data.geo.admin.ch/ch.swisstopo.swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire_3035.gml.zip Geographical Names Switzerland - INSPIRE - reference system ETRS89 / ETRS-LAEA - format application/x-gmz
WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
https://data.geo.admin.ch/ch.swisstopo.swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire_3857.gml.zip Geographical Names Switzerland - INSPIRE - reference system WGS84 Web Mercator - format application/x-gmz
WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
https://data.geo.admin.ch/ch.swisstopo.swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire_4258.gml.zip Geographical Names Switzerland - INSPIRE - reference system ETRS89 - format application/x-gmz
WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
https://data.geo.admin.ch/ch.swisstopo.swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire_4326.gml.zip Geographical Names Switzerland - INSPIRE - reference system WGS 84 - format application/x-gmz
WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
https://data.geo.admin.ch/ch.swisstopo.swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire/swissnames3d.inspire_2056.gml.zip Geographical Names Switzerland - INSPIRE - reference system CH1903+ / LV95 - format application/x-gmz
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Date (lastRevision)
- 2024-06-12
- Explanation
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Data set series conformity testing with INSPIRE implementing rules for spatial data sets and services interoperability.
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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Geographical names is a vector data set that contains almost all objects of the topographic landscape model TLM with names.
Metadata
- File identifier
- e81d4df0-52c8-4258-a38b-96f6761c976b XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-10T13:50:20.087Z
- 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 German UTF8 Italian UTF8 Romansh UTF8 English UTF8
