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This will at last provide us with good coverage in SwitzerlandвЂ™s mountainous regions, something that has been sorely missing from the global orthophoto mosaics. The most interesting data for us right now is access to swisstopos вЂњswissimageвЂќ aerial imagery. We are negotiating with swisstopo for compatible access terms, just as we have previously done for the municipality administrative boundaries way back in 2011 and more recently for use of the GWR address data and expect these issues to be resolved soon. This rules out direct inclusion in our data, but will allow use as reference data for quality assurance. While at the time IвЂ™m writing this we donвЂ™t have access to the final terms of use, we do have a good idea of what the content will be and some of the terms will not be completely compatible with our distribution licence, the ODbL. This is a high point of a development of open data availability in Switzerland in which the cantons have been leading for many years starting with the Canton Solothurn over a decade ago and is now policy in nearly all of them.

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After many years of free access for consumers, today, finally, it is providing reusable open government data that can be used to build and enrich new applications and datasets. Today we are welcoming the Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) to the open data community. Posted in Uncategorized Welcome swisstopo! See Д«ackground aerial imagery В©swisstopo, map data В©OpenStreetMap.

#SWISSTOPO WMS URL UPDATE#

Update September 14th 2021: swisstopo has now clarified that central attribution is acceptable for uses that combine many different data sources. To keep up with the developments, follow us on twitter and subscribe to the Swiss OSM community mailing list. Please note that use of swisstopo infrastructure is subject to additional terms of use that should be respected. The images are from flights in 2017 to 2020 (Map) in some cases we have access to cantonal imagery that is more recent. It will take a bit until configuration updates have reached the major editors, if your favourite one supports custom imagery backgrounds from WMS servers you can add swissimage manually with But as a consequence this rules out direct use in OpenStreetMap till we have agreed alternative arrangements with swisstopo.Д«ut it isnвЂ™t all gloom and doom, we have already agreed that we can make swisstopos high quality orthophoto product вЂњswissimageвЂќ available in OSM editing apps and naturally applications that combine OSM and swisstopo, for example a map with swisstopo derived hill shading, is possible as long as swisstopo is credited. Considering the 100вЂ™s if not 1вЂ™000вЂ™s of 3rd party sources and 1.6 million individual contributors, this makes a lot of sense. In the case of an use in OSM this would require products using our data to display attribution to swisstopo, this might seem to be an easy to fulfil requirement, but our licence specifically allows use that only credits the overall source of the data (that is the OpenStreetMap project). In the meantime the terms are available and are limited to an attribution requirement which however applies downstream too.

As announced in our previous post, from the beginning of this month (March 2021), geodata and products from Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) have been available on far less restrictive terms than previously.ДЄs I noted then we didnвЂ™t have details available at the time so couldnвЂ™t comment further on the use of this data in OSM.

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