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«Atlas of Switzerland» Project

The «Atlas of Switzerland» is a National Atlas according to Art. 26 GeoIG. It is financially supported by the Executive Board and by the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering of ETH Zurich.

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Project Team, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation
HIL G 12.2
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
8093 Zurich
Switzerland

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hurni

Project Management

Dr. Andreas Neumann (since May 2023); Dr. René Sieber (until April 2023)

Atlas Concept

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hurni, Alexander Müdespacher, Dr. Andreas Neumann. Based on earlier work by Dr. René Sieber and in collaboration with Zeix AG.

Editorial, Map Graphics and Data Integration

  • Atlas of Switzerland: Andreas Neumann, Christian Wohlert, Luca Gaia, Oskar Baumann, René Sieber, Severin Wiens
  • agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon ART: Volker Prasuhn
  • Department of Geography, University of Zurich: Max Maisch
  • Swiss Federal Office for Sports: Hans-Jörg Birrer
  • Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science: Christoph Frei, Zappa M. & Gurtz J., Zappa M., Perl M. & Gurtz J.
  • Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zurich: Volker Dietrich
  • Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology: Regula Gehrig
  • Additional Individuals: Barbara Fath, Leimgruber Walter, Rolf Giezendanner (ARE), Walser Emil, Ziegler Peter

Programming and Visualization

Remo Eichenberger (AdS 4 Desktop and cloud backend, 3D-programming, internal services), Marc Folini (editorial system, database administration, data processing, internal services, backend infrastructure AdS Web), Alexander Müdespacher (frontend-development, map rendering, serverside content generation), Michael Schmuki (until 2023; editorial system, database administration, internal services), Dr. Raimund Schnürer (until 2024; data modeling, editorial system, symbology and legend system)

Atlas Commission

Participating Institutions

Companies and Associations

International institutions

Swiss Federal Offices

Universities and Scientific institutes

Individuals

Data Sources

Geodata: see data sources in the info text of the respective map.

Multimedia data: see data source in the caption of the respective media.

Base map search: REST API Services from swisstopo.

Software Used

Editorial System and Database

  • aps_editor: QGIS plugin for map editing and metadata management; in-house development, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich
  • QGIS Desktop: Geographic Information System
  • PostgreSQL: Object-relational database
  • PostGIS: Spatial extension of the PostgreSQL database

Web Infrastructure

  • Docker: Containerization / Virtualization
  • GitLab: Version control and Continuous Integration / Deployment

Web Development and Map Rendering

The «Atlas of Switzerland» was developed using the web framework Astro and utilizes Vue.js as well as Tailwind CSS for the design of the user interface.

For map rendering, MapLibre (base maps) is used, and Deck.gl (thematic maps) is employed. The symbolization within the maps as well as the representation of the legends is done with D3.js. The software Eduard is used for hillshading in some base maps.

Used software packages:
@ads-web-cesiumjs/cesium-scene, @astrojs/markdown-remark, @astrojs/vue, @cesium/engine, @cesium/widgets, @deck.gl/core, @deck.gl/extensions, @deck.gl/geo-layers, @deck.gl/layers, @deck.gl/mapbox, @deck.gl/mesh-layers, @duckdb/node-api, @loaders.gl/core, @loaders.gl/images, @loaders.gl/mvt, @loaders.gl/terrain, @luma.gl/core, @luma.gl/engine, @luma.gl/gltf, @luma.gl/shadertools, @maplibre/maplibre-gl-style-spec, @nanostores/persistent, @nanostores/vue, @plausible-analytics/tracker, @sentry/astro, @sentry/replay, @sentry/replay-canvas, @turf/area, @turf/bearing, @turf/boolean-point-in-polygon, @turf/center-of-mass, @turf/circle, @turf/destination, @turf/distance, @turf/great-circle, @turf/helpers, @turf/length, @turf/point-on-feature, @turf/union, @turf/unkink-polygon, altcha, analytics, astro, bin-pack, d3, d3-array, d3-axis, d3-color, d3-ease, d3-format, d3-interpolate, d3-scale, d3-scale-chromatic, d3-selection, d3-shape, d3-time-format, d3-transition, dayjs, driver.js, flexsearch, hyphen, i18next, jsdom, kleur, lucide, maplibre-gl, meilisearch, nanostores, node-fetch, ol, pica, proj4, qrcode, quick-lru, rehype-external-links, rehype-title-figure, sharp, tailwindcss, typescript, vite, vue, xss

Fonts

Source Sans

Icons

Zeix AG, Lucide, and works by the Atlas project team

Interaction and Graphic Design

Zeix AG: Annina Brügger, Thomas Ehrat, Benedikt Heil, Tobias Jäger, Chantal Rey, Beat von Gunten in collaboration with the Atlas project team.

Translations

  • Übersetzer Gruppe Zürich UGZ, Zurich
  • Christian Marro, Haute-Nendaz
  • Clarisse Aubert / Luca Gaia / Nadia Panchaud / Joram Schito, ETH Zurich
  • Translation Service FSO, Neuchâtel
  • Translation Service FOEN, Bern-Ittigen
  • Translation Service WSL, Birmensdorf
  • Machine translation (deepl.com, Mistral and ChatGPT)