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awesome-ogd-switzerland

Awesome Open Government Data ressoures related to Switzerland. A manually curated list of OGD portals, websites, APIs, tools and other related resources in Switzerland. Relevant links to international websites are listed as well.
https://github.com/rnckp/awesome-ogd-switzerland

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  • Data Portals

    • National data portals

      • Schweizer Parlament - Open Data and web services of Swiss Parliament. Inofficial Python wrapper [here](https://github.com/metaodi/swissparlpy). R wrapper [here](https://github.com/zumbov2/swissparl).
      • SBB - Open transport data provided by SBB.
      • Swiss Tourism Data - The portal is part of the National Data Infrastructure for Tourism (NaDIT) project. It serves as the catalogue of metadata of the most important data sources for Swiss tourism.
      • Swisscom - Open data portal of former Swiss national Telco.
      • COVID19 data - COVID-19 data provided by the Federal Office of Public Health BAG. [New data portal here](https://idd.bag.admin.ch/).
      • opendata.swiss - Central catalog of Swiss Open Government Data, operated by the Federal Statistical Office (BFS). **Most important entry point to all things OGD in Switzerland.**
      • BFS Data Portal - New data portal of the [Federal Statistical Office](https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/services.html).
      • BFS STAT-TAB - This interactive database of the [Federal Statistical Office](https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/services.html) provides detailed statistical data and enables simple, individual data queries. The tables produced can be exported in various formats.
      • SBB - Swiss Federal Railways data portal.
      • Schweizerische Nationalbank SNB - Swiss National Bank data portal.
      • Visualize - Create and embed visualizations from any dataset provided by the LINDAS Linked Data Service.

    • Cantonal data portals

    • City-level data portals

  • APIs

  • Data sources

  • Geo Data

    • Cantonal and city level

    • OpenStreetMap

      • Swiss OpenStreetMap Association (SOSM) - Association that supports projects, people, companies and organisations in Switzerland that collect, use, process and distribute open and free geo-data.
      • Geofabrik's OSM download server - Helpful OpenStreetMap data extracts for Switzerland (e.g. as ESRI shapefiles). Geofabrik's inspiring [portfolio of geo data projects](https://www.geofabrik.de/projects/) is definitely worth a look too.
      • OpenStreetMap CH - OpenStreetMap dataset limited to Switzerland, and tools based on this reduced dataset (provided by [SOSM](https://sosm.ch/)). Hourly updated [extracts here](https://planet.osm.ch/).
      • BBBike's OSM download server - Data extracts from the OpenStreetMap project for more than 200 areas world wide in various formats. E.g. extracts for [Zurich here](https://download.bbbike.org/osm/bbbike/Zuerich/).

    • National

      • swisstopo - National geo data portal, provided by the Federal Office of Topography (Bundesamt für Landestopographie).
      • geoadmin - National geo data portal (Geoportal des Bundes).
      • geocat - Geographic catalog. Operated by swisstopo. Provides geodata, geoservices, and models of federal offices, cantons, municipalities, research institutes, private companies, and more.
      • geobasisdaten.ch - Geo data portal provided by the [«Konferenz der kantonalen Geoinformations- und Katasterstellen»](https://www.kgk-cgc.ch/). In Switzerland, the basic geodata catalog is a catalog-like listing of all geodata that have been collected by a legal authority by linking them to underlying legal enactments. In addition to a visualization of the geo data recorded by geo information law, its function is the database-specific assignment of responsible bodies and other legally relevant attributes. [More information here](https://www.kgk-cgc.ch/geobasisdaten).
      • geodienste.ch - The intercantonal portal for obtaining geodata and services. Basic geodata are aggregated and made available under the responsibility of the cantons and municipalities.
      • Geoportal.ch - Publication platform for Swiss geo data.
      • BFS Plattform Statatlas - The Federal Statistical Office (BFS) offers a number of specialist atlases in addition to the central statistical atlas of Switzerland, which provide more detailed information on special areas of life from a statistical point of view. With the help of numerous interactive maps and graphics as well as the data behind them, a wide variety of geographical processes and relationships can be easily analyzed and evaluated.

    • Miscellaneous Geo Data

      • GeoHarvester - Portal that brings together official Geo Data of Swiss government entities. [[GitHub](https://github.com/davidoesch/geoservice_harvester_poc)]
      • GeoBeer Switzerland - GeoBeerCH is an informal meeting of people interested in geography, GIS, cartography and the latest technologies.
      • mapplus.ch - Various Geo Data portals, viewers and links.
      • geospatial-data-catalogs - A list of open geospatial datasets available on AWS, Earth Engine, Planetary Computer, NASA CMR, and STAC Index.

  • Linked Open Data

    • Miscellaneous Geo Data

      • Fedlex - Fedlex is the Federal Chancellery platform, on which federal legislation is published. It is primarily used to publish the Official Federal Gazette, the Official Compilation of Federal Legislation and the Classified Compilation of Federal Legislation, i.e. the consolidated version of federal legislation and international law texts.
      • Federal Geoportal Linked Data - Linked Data Service of the Federal Geoportal.
      • Stadt Zürich LOD
      • Linked Data Meetup - The Linked Data Meetup is a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Archives (BAR) and the BFH's Public Sector Transformation Institute. The meetup is aimed at users of linked data, especially in the LINDAS environment.
      • LINDAS ecosystem overview - LINDAS (Linked Data Service) allows public administrations to publish their data in the form of Knowledge Graphs and make them accessible via https://lindas.admin.ch. The service is offered by the [Swiss Federal Archives](https://www.bar.admin.ch/bar/en/home.html).
      • Federal Geoportal Linked Data - Linked Data Service of the Federal Geoportal.

  • Organizations, Initiatives, Events and Projects

    • Miscellaneous Geo Data

      • Open Data Beer
      • Prototype Fund - A funding program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that is managed and evaluated by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany. Individuals and small teams (of coders, hackers, designers and more) can receive funding in order to test their ideas and develop open source applications in the areas of Civic Tech, Data Literacy, IT Security and Software Infrastructure.
      • öffentlichkeitsgesetz.ch - Forum for transparency in administration.
      • opendata.ch - Swiss section of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
      • opendata.ch - List of hackathons and events.
      • Statistical Institutions in Switzerland
      • Korstat - Conference of the regional statistical offices in Switzerland.
      • Statistiktage - Annual conference organized by [Swiss Statistical Society](https://www.stat.ch/en/) and [IMSD](https://www.imsd.ch/de/).
      • Project Rosling - Swiss Confederation's «Project Rosling» aims to expand dialogue on data and statistics and deepen knowledge.
      • Parldigi - Parlamentarische Gruppe Digitale Nachhaltigkeit.
      • DINACON - Conference for digital sustainability.
      • Lobbywatch - Lobbywatch enables citizens and media professionals to find out what interests politicians in Bern represent. They offer their data as an open database for own evaluations.

  • Newsletters

  • Podcasts

  • Miscellaneous

    • Miscellaneous Geo Data

      • Geschäftsstelle OGD BFS - This unit coordinates measures to implement the OGD strategy of the Swiss government and provides support to both data publisher and users.
      • Digitale Verwaltung Schweiz
      • National data management NaDB - The I14Y interoperability platform is available since June 2021 to promote the multiple use of data. All of the Federal Administration’s data collections are described here. In addition, a directory of electronic interfaces (APIs) will facilitate access to the actual data.
      • Swiss DCAT Standard - eCH-0200 DCAT-Profile for Swiss data portals.
      • adminR Code Base - A curated list of R packages & R code created and used by Swiss public institutions.
      • Swiss OGD strategy
      • Swiss OGD information
      • Forschungsstelle Digitale Nachhaltigkeit Uni Bern - The Research Center for Digital Sustainability deals with key topics such as Digital Sustainability, Open Data, Linked Data, and Open Government. The center offers studies, research, services, support, and lectures (see below) in these areas.
      • Open Data lectures Uni Bern - Comprehensive lectures about Open Data in Switzerland provided by Forschungsstelle Digitale Nachhaltigkeit of the University of Bern.
      • Swiss OSS Benchmark - Comprehensive list of open source GitHub repos/orgs of Swiss institutions.

  • International

  • Media

    • Miscellaneous Geo Data

      • SRF Data - Code and data from SRF Data, the data-driven journalism unit of Swiss Radio and TV (SRF) [[Publications and projects]](https://www.srf.ch/news/srf-data).
      • Tamedia Data Desk - GitHub account of Tamedia's data journalism team [[Projects of Ressort «Daten & Interaktiv»]](https://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/).
      • Neue Zürcher Zeitung Visuals Team - Repository that contains methods and code used for stories by [NZZ Visuals](https://twitter.com/nzzvisuals).

  • Social Media

Programming Languages
JavaScript 2 Jupyter Notebook 1 Python 1
Categories
International 86 Data sources 60 Geo Data 43 Data Portals 24 Organizations, Initiatives, Events and Projects 12 Miscellaneous 10 APIs 9 Linked Open Data 6 Media 3 Podcasts 2 Newsletters 2 Social Media 1
Sub Categories
Data portals and sources 72 Cantonal and city level 49 Miscellaneous Geo Data 49 National 27 Miscellaneous Data Sources 19 Cantonal data portals 11 National data portals 11 Miscellaneous 10 OpenStreetMap 4 Curated lists 4 City-level data portals 2
Keywords
hackathons 1 hackathon 1 awesome-list 1 awesome 1 opendata 1 datasets 1 awesome-public-datasets 1 aaron-swartz 1 documentation 1 api 1 switzerland 1 energy-data 1 datapackage 1