GIS Data Sources

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Visit these Web Pages

1. Visit the following web pages, indicate the sources and links to GIS Data. The first 5 links, which are mandatory links, , provide detail on data sources of Switzerland.

Federal Office of Topography, Switzerland The contact point of cadastral surveying, survey, maps, digital products and images of Switzerland.
Swiss Federal Statistical Office The contact point of statistical data of Switzerland.
Swiss Organization for Geographic Information Information on Geographic Information Systems in Switzerland.
COGIS (KOGIS) The GI (Geographic Information) & GIS (Geographic Information Systems) coordination of the Swiss federal administration is composed of the interdepartmental GIS Coordination Group as a body for control and supervision of the center of competence COGIS (KOGIS).
National Point of Contact for Satellite Images (Switzerland) The Swiss National Point of Contact for Satellite Images (NPOC) is the national information, distribution and archive center for satellite Images.

The following optional links provide global, regional and national level data sources for various applications.

2. See the following paper map as an example of a data source.

Part of the Fribourg Map

Data Research

1. Assuming that we want to analyze the impact of climate change to biodiversity at the global scale. According to the discussion, the following datasets are generally identified.

i.) Elevation data or Digital Elevation Data of the World
ii.) Vegetation Map of the World
iii.) Global Mean Annual Temperature
iv.) Global Mean Annual Rainfall
v.) Global Land Cover Map
vi.) Existing Protected Areas of the World
vii.) Global Sea level Data

Suggest available data sources for at least two datasets mentioned above.

2. Find out the scale of available Swiss National Maps. (Hint: Swisstopo.ch)

3. A telecommunication company require very detailed street level data to map the address of customers and to preliminary laid out the fibre optics network. Which dataset should be used?