#swissgis — Public Fediverse posts

Portolan: Publishing geodata without a server: #Portolan turns geodata publishing into a file upload – no servers, no databases, no maintenance. Nico Rohrbach built a first pilot with Swiss environmental data from the #FOEN: open, machine-readable, and #AIready in days. #cloudnative #STAC...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/09/05-portolan-publishing-geodata-without-a-server/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Via Helvetica hiking planner: Via Helvetica by Philippe De Pol is a new, free web app for planning hikes in Switzerland along the official trail network, on #swisstopo basemaps and using federal #geodata, with #GPX import and export and an easy handoff to the swisstopo mobile...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/08/21-via-helvetica-hiking-planner/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Via Helvetica hiking planner: Via Helvetica by Philippe De Pol is a new, free web app for planning hikes in Switzerland along the official trail network, on #swisstopo basemaps and using federal #geodata, with #GPX import and export and an easy handoff to the swisstopo mobile...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/08/21-via-helvetica-hiking-planner/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

MCP server for Swiss federal geodata: Hayal Oezkan’s swisstopo-mcp gives #AI #agents access to Swiss federal #geodata through 20 tools spanning the #Swisstopo REST API, the federal #STAC catalog, the #ÖREB/#RDPPF cadastre, and #OSM. This is currently the bridge between the Model...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/08/15-mcp-server-for-swiss-federal-geodata/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Geoinformation chatbot for the canton of Berne: The canton of Berne has launched a #chatbot on their geoinformation portal that lets users ask questions about available cantonal #geodata and its #metadata in natural language — in German, French, English, and more. It is not (yet?) a ‘talk to the...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/05/08-geoinformation-chatbot-for-the-canton-of-berne/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

OSM vector tiles in the Esri ecosystem: Riccardo Klinger demonstrates how to build an independent #basemap pipeline from #OpenStreetMap data using #GDAL/#OGR and integrate the resulting #vectorTiles into the #Esri ecosystem. Open-source and proprietary tools turn out to complement each...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/04/03-osm-vector-tiles-in-the-esri-ecosystem/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Vectormap: Swiss vector maps: Building on his Master’s thesis, Fabian Rechsteiner launched #Vectormap, a project focused on making Swiss #geodata accessible as modern, high-performance #vectormaps. With regularly updated #cadastraldata and ready-to-use styles in #PMTiles format, Vectormap explores pragmatic, #cloudnative ways to bring geodata to the web. #GIS #geospatial #SwissGIS
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/01/25-vectormap-swiss-vector-maps/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

#VectorTiles coming to DuckDB: #DuckDB’s #spatial extension is about to support #Mapbox Vector Tiles (#MVT) with the newly merged ST_AsMVT and ST_AsMVTGeom functions. The two new functions are scheduled to be shipped next week in DuckDB version 1.4.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/10-vector-tiles-coming-to-duckdb/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

MapBS 3D and launch event: The canton of Basel-City presents its new #3D #geoportal, MapBS 3D, offering interactive 3D maps with detailed building models, construction projects, and several analytical tools. The new portal is introduced in a “lunch & learn” style webinar...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/06/24-mapbs-3d-and-launch-event/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

ohsome-planet: Export OSM data and its history to GeoParquet: The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University and HeiGIT have released version 1.0.0 of #ohsome-planet, a tool for #cloudnative access to #OpenStreetMap (#OSM) data using the #GeoParquet format. Originally developed as an internal tool, it...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-11-ohsome-planet-export-osm-data-and-its-history-to-geoparquet/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS