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Download geodata for Switzerland
We keep no copies of Swiss data here: every row leads straight to the source — SWISSIMAGE aerial photos and heights from swissALTI3D and swissSURFACE3D as tile lists at swisstopo, the latest version per tile, plus the official cadastral survey (parcels, buildings, land cover) as one package per canton at geodienste.ch.
🗺️ Cadastral survey — Parcels, buildings, land cover and addresses
Free for 20 of the 26 cantons, one package per canton; the files are listed on the canton pages, as of 2026-10-03–2026-11-01.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (20 cantons, JSON) | straight from geodienste.ch |
Source: geodienste.ch · Licence per canton
✈️ DOP — SWISSIMAGE aerial photos, 10 cm, RGB, every area flown anew every three years
42,691 tiles, 42,484 with acquisition date, period 2017-05-26–2025-09-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (42,691 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
Show historical years individually (8)
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Historical year 2017 (4,877 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
| Historical year 2018 (14,761 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
| Historical year 2019 (15,323 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
| Historical year 2020 (12,819 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
| Historical year 2021 (14,996 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
| Historical year 2022 (15,462 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
| Historical year 2023 (413 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
| Historical year 2024 (373 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
Source: Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo · Licence Open Government Data
⛰️ DTM — swissALTI3D terrain model from the laser scan, 0.5 m grid
43,650 tiles, flown 2012–2025.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (43,650 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
Source: Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo · Licence Open Government Data
🏙️ DSM — swissSURFACE3D Raster surface model from the laser scan, 0.5 m grid
43,692 tiles, flown 2012–2026.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (43,692 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
Source: Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo · Licence Open Government Data
🌳 nDSM — Vegetation height of the National Forest Inventory, one countrywide file per year from laser scan (0.5 m), aerial imagery (1 m), old aerial photos 1979–2006 or Sentinel-2 (10 m)
25 packages, period 2012-09-15–2025-09-20.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (25 packages, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
Source: Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Landesforstinventar (EnviDat) · Licence CC BY 4.0 · ODbL 1.0 · CC0 1.0
📡 LiDAR — swissSURFACE3D point cloud, classified, LAZ
41,982 tiles, flown 2015–2026.
| Access | Note |
|---|---|
| Download links (41,982 tiles, JSON) | straight from swisstopo |
Source: Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo · Licence Open Government Data