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Title
English: General Map of Switzerland
Description
English: Electronic version of the General Map of Switzerland (1:300'000) published by the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo). Made with four compressed and reduced digital maps (1:200'000) stitched together for a high amount of detail. Scale is 22.22 metres per pixel. Nota bene: The full version map can be consulted more conveniently on the geographical portal.
Map legend
English: Lines of the Swiss grid are 10 km apart. Elevations are in metres and the contour interval is 100 metres. For symbols and notes, see Conventional signs for Swiss National Maps (pp. 8–9, 12), displayed below.
  • Roads, tracks; Public transport; Buildings and constructions; Sites; Boundaries
    Roads, tracks; Public transport; Buildings and constructions; Sites; Boundaries
  • Water; Land covering; Lettering
    Water; Land covering; Lettering
  • Explanatory notes
    Explanatory notes
Date
Source
Creator
institution QS:P195,Q685592
 Geotemporal data
Map location Switzerland
Spatial reference system Swiss coordinate system (CH1903+/MN95)
Scale 1:300,000
Heading
Bounding box
N: 48.0308554°N
W: 5.6024039°E E: 10.7465404°E
S: 45.5028181°N
Georeferencing View the georeferenced map in the Wikimaps Warper
 Bibliographic data
Publisher
institution QS:P195,Q685592
Other versions
  • Kandersteg (detail from map 2021)
    Kandersteg (detail from map 2021)
Object location46° 47′ 54.82″ N, 8° 13′ 55.1″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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General Map of Switzerland

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46°47'54.823"N, 8°13'55.103"E

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current13:41, 20 March 2021Thumbnail for version as of 13:41, 20 March 202117,280 × 12,412 (66.78 MB)Zacharie GrossenUploaded a work by Bundesamt für Landestopografie swisstopo from [https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/geodata/maps/smr/smr25.html swisstopo] with UploadWizard

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