Official street directory
This directory lists all streets, paths, alleys, squares and named districts that are used as street names for addresses.

Comprehensive information about Switzerland’s streets
A street name forms an essential and integral part of a building address – a geographic localisation process that we use in our daily lives. In order for a street name to be used for computer-aided administrative tasks or in information systems, a suitable database is required: the official street directory. For every listed street, this directory contains:
- An unambiguous identifier
- A clearly designated street name in each locality – street names in multilingual regions may be listed in more than one language
- The applicable name of the locality and the post code from the official directory of municipalities
- The applicable name and number of the municipality from the official directory of municipalities
- The geographic location of the street
- The status of the street (completed, under construction, etc.).
The data stored in the official street directory are based on the data collected for the cadastral survey. Each municipality (and sometimes the canton itself) manages the data in the federal buildings and dwellings directory that is compiled by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). The FSO periodically delivers the data to swisstopo, which supplements them with geometric data and subsequently publishes them for use free of charge by everyone.
Procurement of data and costs
The official street directory is publicly available and can be downloaded free of charge from map.geo.admin.ch.
The data are available in different formats.
Utilisation of the directory
The official street directory can be used by the public authorities, as well as by companies for commercial purposes. For example, it can be used as a database for cartographic products and is also suitable for integration into web services.
Additional information
File formats
The official street directory is available in the following file formats:
- ESRI File Geodatabase
- Interlis 2
- CSV (Excel)
Coordinate systems
The official street directory is available in the following coordinate system:
- LV95
Updates
The official street directory is updated daily swisstopo updates the data based on the information provided by the official directory of building addresses and the cadastral survey. Each municipality (and sometimes the canton itself) enters most of the data in the directory of building addresses that is compiled by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). The FSO delivers the data each day to swisstopo, which supplements them where necessary with data from the cadastral survey and the topographic landscape model, and subsequently publishes them for use free of charge by everyone.
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FAQ official street directory
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