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) |
371 |
Number of full-time jobs |
321.45 |
Number of part-time jobs (not counting apprentices, work-time percentage < 90%) |
148 / 39.90% |
Number of apprentices |
25 |
Number of women (not counting apprentices) |
108 / 29.11% |
Number of employees whose mother-tongue is French or Italian (not counting apprentices) |
83 / 22.37% |
Key data
Type | CHF |
---|---|
External federal revenue |
6.7 Mn |
Internal federal revenue |
11.5 Mn |
Running costs and investment (operating expenses) |
73.8 Mn |
Internal federal accounting |
8.9 Mn |
Cost recovery level |
20.6% |
Productive working hours |
598'600 |
Production statistics
Geodata
Product | Activity |
---|---|
swissTLM3D (Topographic Landscape Model) |
Update of 7'400 km2 |
swissTLM-Map |
Update of the entire data set. In addition mediatized updates 4x/year. |
swissBUILDINGS3D 2.0 |
Record of all municipalities (9'989 km2) |
swissALTI3D |
update of 6'600 km2 |
SWISSIMAGE |
Update of 12'820 km2 |
Aerial image strips |
557 aerial image strips were taken of a total of 23'290 km2 |
swissSURFACE3D | 7906 km2 produced |
swissNAMES3D |
Update of 7'470 km2 |
swissBOUNDARIES3D |
Update of the entire data set. In addition to 3 mergers 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 |
67 |
Snowshoe and Ski Tour Map 1:50 000 |
7 |
7 aeronautical maps |
7 |
Printed maps sold | 334'000 |
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Digital maps and interactive solutions
Product | |
---|---|
Downloads of the swisstopo application | 615'000 |
Personalised paper maps, mySwissMap | 2'526 |
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 |
3623 licenses |
Planimetric control points |
1⁄5 of 223 main survey points of Switzerland is revised and local control of stability |
Vertical control points |
48'154 km of the precise levelling network newly measured |
Geological products
Product | Name |
---|---|
Geological Atlas of Switzerland 1:25 000, printed maps and pixel maps |
Evolène (n° 169), Le Locle (n° 172), Elm (Nr. 173) |
Vector data sets |
GeoCover V2 (3 data sets, update of all data) |
Report of the Swiss Geological Survey |
14 : Dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity in geological maps, with focus on bedrock geology. 15: Ammonite stratigraphy and fossils of the Passwang Formation (Middle Jurassic) and the Opalinus Clay (Early to Middle Jurassic), excavated in Ga18 and the Niches P3, Passwang and CO2 in the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory. 18 DE: Hartstein – Bedarf und Versorgungssituation in der Schweiz. 18 FR: Besoins et état de l’approvisionnement en granulats issus de roches dures en Suisse. |
Cadastral surveying
Area status | Portion of Switzerland's territory | Modifications compared to 2019 |
---|---|---|
Digital data available | 86.4% | +0.8% |
Digital data in preparation | 8.5% | +3.5% |
Only conventional data available | 0.6% | +0.6% * |
Not yet surveyed | 1.2% | -4.4% |
Lakes | 3.2% | -0.1% * |
* Data fluctuates due to data cleansing.
Geodata infrastructure
Indicator | Figure |
---|---|
Visits via the geoportal operated by swisstopo |
28.4 million |
Uptime (24/7) |
99.9% |
3800 mega-pixels provided by the FSDI (Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure) | |
Topics available in the Federal Geodata Infrastructure FGDI |
874 |
2014 TB geodata delivered on the Internet via the geo.admin.ch infrastructure | |
3.2 million PDFs generated with map extracts via map.geo.admin.ch | |
590 TB raw data obtained via data.geo.admin.ch |
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