swisstopo: facts and figures
Find out about swisstopo, its map production, number of employees and other facts and figures relating to its wide-ranging activities.

Human resources
Category | Employees |
---|---|
Number of employees (not counting apprentices) |
370 |
Number of full-time jobs |
320.4 |
Number of part-time jobs (not counting apprentices, work-time percentage < 90%) |
145 / 39.2% |
Number of apprentices |
26 |
Number of women (not counting apprentices) |
107 / 28.9% |
Number of employees whose mother-tongue is French or Italian (not counting apprentices) |
76 / 20.5% |
Key data
Type | CHF |
---|---|
External federal revenue |
10.2 Mn |
Internal federal revenue |
16.7 Mn |
Running costs and investment (operating expenses) |
74.7 Mn |
Internal federal accounting |
8.8 Mn |
Cost recovery level |
30.7% |
Productive working hours |
611'304 |
Production statistics
Geodata
Product | Activity |
---|---|
swissTLM3D (Topographic Landscape Model) |
Update of 7'470 km2 |
swissTLM-Map |
Update of the entire data set. In addition mediatized updates 3x/year. |
swissBUILDINGS3D 2.0 |
Record of all municipalities (12'300 km2) |
swissALTI3D |
update of 7'280 km2 |
SWISSIMAGE |
Update of 15'322 km2 |
Aerial image strips |
542 aerial image strips were taken of a total of 20'201 km |
swissSURFACE3D | 7906 km2 produced |
swissNAMES3D |
Update of 7'470 km2 |
swissBOUNDARIES3D |
Update of the entire data set. In addition to a merger of communes |
swissTLMREGIO |
Update of the entire data set |
EuroBoundaryMap |
Update of the entire perimeter CH and FL |
EuroRegionalMap |
Update of the entire perimeter CH and FL |
Printed maps
Product | Sheets |
---|---|
National Map 1:25 000, 1:50 000, 1:100 000 |
46 |
Composite of the National Map 1:25 000, 1:50 000, 1:100 000 |
14 |
Hiking Map 1:33 333, 1:50 000 |
26 |
Snowshoe and Ski Tour Map 1:50 000 |
6 |
1 ICAO Map 1:500'000 |
1 |
1 Glider Chart 1:300'000 |
1 |
Printed maps sold | 405'000 |
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Digital maps and interactive solutions
Product | |
---|---|
Downloads of the swisstopo application (first publication July 2020) | 495 000 |
Personalised paper maps, mySwissMap (new service since June 2020) | 2705 |
Geodetic data
Service |
Activity |
---|---|
Automatic GNSS Network of Switzerland (AGNES) |
41 stations |
International/European permanent stations (IGS/EPN) |
126 stations |
Further monitor stations | 56 stations |
Positioning service swipos-GIS/GEO |
3413 licenses |
Planimetric control points |
1⁄5 of 223 main survey points of Switzerland is revised and local control of stability (area of Romandie) |
Vertical control points |
26.423 km of the precise levelling network newly measured (with a total altitude difference of 1792 m) |
Geological products
Product | Name |
---|---|
Geological Atlas of Switzerland 1:25 000, printed maps and pixel maps |
Sissach-Rheinfelden (Nr. 161), Innertkirchen (Nr. 167), Hitzkirch (Nr. 168) |
Explanatory Booklet | Walensee (Nr. 106), Château-d’Oex (Nr. 144) |
Vector data sets |
GA25 –V (3 data sets), GeoCover V2 (update of all data) |
Report of the Swiss Geological Survey |
12: Ceneri-Basistunnel : Geologie, Geotechnik, Hydrogeologie und Bautechnik. Zusammenfassender Schlussbericht. 13 DE (only in PDF format): Rohstoffe zur Herstellung von Zement – Bedarf und Versorgungssituation in der Schweiz. |
Cadastral surveying
Area status | Portion of Switzerland's territory | Modifications compared to 2019 |
---|---|---|
Digital data available | 85.6% | +0.4% |
Digital data in preparation | 5.0% | -0.2% |
Only conventional data available | 0.5% | 0.0% |
Not yet surveyed | 5.6% | -0.4% |
Lakes | 3.3% | +0.2% |
Geodata infrastructure
Indicator | Figure |
---|---|
Visits via the geoportal operated by swisstopo |
226.3 million |
Uptime (24/7) |
99.7% |
2617 mega-pixels provided by the FSDI (Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure) | |
Topics available in the Federal Geodata Infrastructure FGDI |
873 |
1200 TB geodata delivered on the Internet via the geo.admin.ch infrastructure | |
223 million search requests via the geo.admin.ch infrastructure | |
3 million PDFs generated with map extracts via map.geo.admin.ch | |
110 TB raw data obtained via data.geo.admin.ch |
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