Besides a 'hack' like printing something off http://map.schweizmobil.ch/ into a PDF and loading it into the iPhone. Something I can do when out and about.
Anyone knows a way these can be queried from an iPhone?
In case anyone tries to figure this out, here is the solution! Very useful if you are out biking and trying to figure out if you have enough juice to get to the next town.
Mmmm, the iPhone maps seem a bit dear, at 85 CHF a pop!
But pretty dear, at CHF 85 per map section!
I see from another thread that you are planning to do the Haute Route; for this you would only need one map section (which might not cover the French section).
If you have a Garmin GPS receiver there are free maps from the Open Street Map project: Kowoma Swiss Map and the Map of the Alpine Regions .
Thanks for the info, RNH. (And thanks for all the info you've posted here and elsewhere about the Haute Route -- I've found it extremely helpful!) Yes, I went to the Swisstopo website, and it looks like all of Valais is on one of their "sections," so the cost to get the maps for that trip is as low as it could be. I do have a Garmin, but it's a tiny Foretrex that I just use for backpacking, and it has no mapping capability. I was hoping to use my new iPhone for that. I also have the paper maps, of course, and Kev Reynolds's book—I'd never commit myself to a single method of navigation, especially an electronic one.
Tearly, if you're still on the forum, how have you found using the maps and the app, after six months or so? The user reports on the iTunes app store are pretty variable, but that seems to be the case for most apps. You can't please all the people all the time: surprise!
—B2
And off topic (ish)
swisstopo is hosted on Amazon Web Services out of Dublin
Hi I am interested in plotting a route but I do not understand how I log into the site you link to
I just learned that all of the excellent Swiss Topo maps are available online, see this part of the Switzerland Mobility website .
Anyone know where I can get a particular map printed?
I'd like to get a bit A0 map of where we live printed, but can't get hold of the view I want in the resolution I need.
I thought maybe SwissTopo might be able to help, but I've not been able to get any joy...
Hi,
if you plan to print whole CH on one paper, I guess there will be a lot of stitching in Photoshop
What I would do: use wanderland.ch, their printing possibilities are amazing, you can define scale, orientation and at the end you have few MB .pdf. With this you can gradually cover any part you want. But single-click huge map I think is out of question.
this is great, thanks!!!
You'll like this new feature from Swiss Top that allows you to time travel against a section of Switzerland of your choosing:
http://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/intern...imetravel.html
It's a neat feature.
I am not sure if it is well known, but for printing you get the best resolution with http://map.geo.admin.ch/ when we speak about the free sites. I use it all the time for Trail Running, Hiking, Ski Touring and mountaineering.
On another topic
GPX-Tracks for the iphone or android is a cheap option if you want to download the maps, without paying the 85 CHF per region, but it still cost you a bit.
Are similar sites available for other countries too?
Looking at US and Belgium for the moment...
When I lived in the US, I sometimes used the USGS site: http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/ . Nothing compares to the SwissMobility site and app though, I haven't come across anything as good!
Now 38 CHF per year for access to all of Switzerland (annual subscription based service now rather than 'buy a piece' for 85 CHF). ithings and android...
Hello All,
I just spent an hour in Zurich and managed to buy all of the topo maps for the Via Alpine National trail 1 with no problem. I went to two places:
Travel Book Shop
Rindermarkt 20, 8022 Zurich +41442523883
Independent and well stocked, had the same maps for cheaper, unfortunately I went here second after I couldn't find all the maps at..
Orell Füssli
Füsslistrasse 4, 8001 Zurich +41848849848
Happy Hiking.
Now you can go hicking with your notebook:
I will add my 2 cents regarding offline maps for mobile phones (sorry for the off topic):
If you want offline maps in high details and accuracy including hill shading and contour lines, then check out OsmAnd.
There is a free version and the pro version is about 7 bucks. You can download maps of the whole world
example of lucerne:
I have now got this App for the Android. The map are good and the functionality is OK but the download function for offline usage is extremely poor.
If you are pre-loading the device for a long trip (using of course WLAN because of the high data volumes), you have to select a point on the map and download all the map tiles in a 10 KM radius (one operation) then move the map point say 5 KM along your route then repeat the performance along the whole of your route. Once you have done that you have to repeat the whole miserable performance listed above again 4 more times to get all of the 5 available map resolutions loaded.
Worse. You have no visual indication of what is loaded and what is not loaded. The only hope is to switch off mobile data / WLAN and check if you find missing map tiles at any of the 5 resolutions along your desired route.
On a couple of occasions, I have been caught out by this, on hikes / bike rides in places without network coverage and finding that I have not succeeded in loading all the necessary map sections. This is a real pity, because most Smartphones with memory card have many times the capacity to hold the entire map base so it should be possible to download the whole lot in one operation.