Price list - georeferenced
Price list - analogue copies
Old National Maps
(in German and French)
Digital Old National Maps 1:25 000 / 1:50 000 / 1:100 000
Already from about 1900, the first tests for new map series of Switzerland were carried out. The 1935 Federal Act named the new and still used National Maps as the official map series of Switzerland. They supersede the earlier Dufour and Siegfried Maps.
All editions are preserved in our Map Collection. The National Maps do completely cover the country in the largest as well as the smallest scales.
Official name: Swiss National Maps
Ellipsoid: Bessel 1841
Projection: Conformal oblique cylinder projection
Point of origin for height measurements: Repère Pierre du Niton 373,6 ASL = 'new horizon'
National Map 1:25 000
- Method of ground representation: contour lines 10 m (Alps 20 m)
- Method of reproduction: in the past negative scribing, today computer-assisted cartography
- Method of printing: offset printing
- Colours: 8
- Map format: 70 x 48 cm = 210 km2
- Number of sheets: 249
- First edition: 1952-1979
- Revision: continously in a cycle of 6 years
National Map 1:50 000
- Method of ground representation: contour lines 20 m
- Method of reproduction: in the past negative scribing, today computer-assisted cartography
- Method of printing: offset printing
- Colours: 6, now 8
- Map format: 70 x 48 cm = 840 km2
- Number of sheets: 78,5
- First edition: 1938-1963
- Revision: continously in a cycle of 6 years
National Map 1:100 000
- Method of ground representation: contour lines 50 m
- Method of reproduction: in the past negative scribing, today computer-assisted cartography
- Method of printing: offset printing
- Colours: 10
- Map format: 70 x 48 cm = 3360 km2
- Number of sheets: 22,5
- First edition: 1954-1965
- Revision: continously in a cycle of 6 years
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Contact / Sales
- Digital data:
Swiss Federal Office of Topography
Customer Services Cartography
Seftigenstr. 264
CH-3084 Wabern
Tel +41 31 963 21 74
Fax +41 31 963 24 59
karto@swisstopo.ch
- Analogue copies:
Swiss Federal Office of Topography, map collection
Map collection
Seftigenstr. 264
CH-3084 Wabern
Tel +41 31 963 21 11
Fax +41 31 963 24 59
kartensammlung@swisstopo.ch
Documentation
- Price list - georeferenced
14.06.2010 | 1048 Kb | PDF
- Order form - georeferenced (in German and French)
14.06.2010 | 37 Kb | PDF
- Price - analogue copies
10.01.2011 | 357 Kb | PDF
- Synopsis on the relationship between the various official map series
- Sample Data
- Historic Geodata
- Background information on the National Map
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