#swisstopo — Public Fediverse posts

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

ArcGIS Flight Simulator: Cédric Despierre Corporon built a browser-based #FlightSimulator on the #ArcGIS Maps SDK for #JavaScript, streaming Swiss terrain and buildings from #swisstopo alongside global #OSM data. While obviously not a full flight sim, this is a genuinely...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/07/27-arcgis-flight-simulator/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

Tree canopy change detection in Vaud: Engineering firm n+p used #swisstopo’s #LiDAR data from 2019 and 2025 to detect #TreeCanopy change across the canton of Vaud, with results explorable in a web app that includes orthophoto comparison for spot-checking. Despite methodological...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/07/08-tree-canopy-change-detection-in-vaud/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS