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Federal Office of Topography swisstopo

Survey and maintenance

Representing the Swiss Confederacy, swisstopo is responsible for the maintenance and revision work on the national border in agreement with the neighboring territories.

Unterhaltung einer Grenzenstein

Survey and maintenance of the boundary

This includes the following work:

  • Establishment and revision of the national boundary
  • Maintenance of the border markers
  • Work involved in border trade-offs
  • Conservation of the documentation (incl. the archive)
  • Modernizing the documentation (GIS)
  • Defining the coordinates of the markers in the European reference system ETRS89

Depending on the neighboring country, the work routines for maintaining the markers are regulated in treaties.

The description and documentation of the boundary line are included in these treaties.

Comments about this page: Geodesy
Last updated: 22.06.2009

Contact

Daniel Gutknecht
Dipl. Verm.-Ing. FH
Control networks

Tel +41 31 963 22 49
Fax +41 31 963 24 59

Email to Daniel Gutknecht

 

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