Switzerland/swissNAMES3D

This project is a series of imports of geographic POIs from swissNAMES/3D in Switzerland.

Overview

• Data source site: swissNAMES3D
• Data license: Open Government Data terms from swisstopo (see SOSM blog).
• OSM attribution: central attribution (as of September 14th 2021).
• ODbL Compliance verified: yes
• Changeset Hashtag: #swissnames3d_osm_ch
• Source Tag: source=swisstopo

About swissNAMES/3D

"With over 400'000 geo-referenced entries, swissNAMES3D is the most comprehensive collection of Swiss geographic names." (...) "The six-year updating cycle of swissNAMES3D is closely linked to that of the topographic landscape model. One edition of this dataset is published each year." (...) "contains geographic names from Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein." (Source: swissNAMES3D landing page of Swisstopo).

Here are some main object classes:

• Points: topographic names (peaks, saddles / mountain passes, etc.), names of single point objects, field and local names public transport stops, building names.
• Lines: names of transport infrastructure (bridges, tunnels, cable cars, etc.), names of sports facilities, names of watercourses.
• Polygons:, housing development names, lake names, names of landscapes and regions, terrain names (glaciers, valleys, etc.), names of sites (transport facilities, schools, recreation facilities, etc.).

For now, we will focus on summits and passes that do not exist in OSM.

Used tools

OSM Conflator: Data preparation uses a project profile.py (Python) with OSM Conflator: See https://gitlab.ost.ch/ifs/geometalab/cf_audit/-/tree/master/profiles .

Peaks

Data Preparation

When selecting the swissNAMES3D peaks, care was taken to ensure that no OSM elements with the tags natural=peak|saddle, mountain_pass=yes, place=locality, tourism_viewpoint exist within a radius of 100m.

Mountain Passes

Mountain passes being in OSM either topographic saddles or mountain road passes.

Data Preparation

When selecting the swissNAMES3D saddles, care was taken to ensure that no OSM elements with the tags natural=peak|saddle, mountain_pass=yes, place=locality, tourism_viewpoint exist within a radius of 100m.

Status

• 2024-04-01: Start
• 2024-04-10 cont. : Second releases
• 2024-05-26: Announced at Import wiki page.

Work to do

• Help validating using cf_audit GUI: https://cfauditgui.geoh.infs.ch/ > "Gipfel" und "Pässe"