Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The 2010-2011 edition of the official Swiss roadmap published by Swisstopo is out, and it includes the latest additions to the road network, including the A4 stretch that opened 13 November and Zurich’s Uetliberg tunnel bypass. The 1 :200 000 map costs CHF19.80 as one map or CHF24.50 as two (east, west). The two-page book version has a wealth of useful information, including: detailed list of place names with their coordinates, distance tables, important emergency phone numbers, special traffic regulations, passes closed in winter, transportation of cars by railway. Available in bookstores or directly from Swisstopo.
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.
Map detail, photo Sean Ecker
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Swisstopo, the Swiss Federal Office of Topography announced that maps of Switzerland at 1:25,000 and 1:100,000 detail are available for cell phones with the Windows mobile and Symbian S60 operating systems. Mobile telephones equipped with a GPS receiver and the Swiss Map mobile software will never get lost again. The software works much as Google maps does, but with the cartographic details of the Swiss maps. The addition of the two mobile platforms means that Swiss Map mobile now exists for the the iPhone, Sony-Ericsson and Nokia smartphones, as well as Windows mobile phones.
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swisstopo, the government map service, has published five new ski touring maps and will publish another three by the end of 2008.
