Today we are welcoming the Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) to the open data community. Posted in Uncategorized Welcome swisstopo! See īackground aerial imagery ©swisstopo, map data ©OpenStreetMap. 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.īut it isn’t all gloom and doom, we have already agreed that we can make swisstopos high quality orthophoto product “swissimage” 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 100’s if not 1’000’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.Īs I noted then we didn’t have details available at the time so couldn’t comment further on the use of this data in OSM.

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