Swisstopo's iPhone Swiss map app

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss federal government’s mapmaking enterprise, Swisstopo, has won the country’s 2009 mapmaking award for its iPhone application that allows users to access maps for the entire country at these scales: 1:25 000, 1:100 000, 1:500 000 and 1:1 million. Swisstopo will now represent Switzerland at the International Cartographers Associaton awards in Santiago Chile 15 November.

Lower calling rates, sweet news!

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Mobile phone owners in Switzerland should expect to see the cost of using their phones fall, thanks to a significant cut in basic prices that Swisscom can charge its competitors.

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