swisstopo

Federal Office of Topography swisstopo

About this app

On the road with the best app of the year: the swisstopo app won the "Master of Swiss Apps 2021" award.

Use the famous national maps to discover even the most remote places in Switzerland and topics such as hiking, cycling, snow sports and aviation. All functions and data of the app as well as offline use are free of charge. The app is free of advertising and does not require a login.

- all scales from 1:10 000 to 1:1 million
- current aerial image and historical maps
- official hiking, mountain hiking and alpine hiking trails
- closures of hiking trails
- snowshoe and ski routes
- SwitzerlandMobility routes
- public transport stops


ON THE ROAD
- free offline maps (1:25 000 to 1:1 million)
- draw, record, import and share your own tours
- set tour type (hiking, cycling, mountain biking) and personal pace
- tour guide (arrival time, remaining distance)
- panorama mode (labelled panorama, view tour in "3D")
- save markers, add notes, share

TOOLS such as measure, compare and search (for geographical names, addresses or coordinates)

Report changes to maps and geodata

AVIATION
- aeronautical charts, obstacles, airspaces
- landing sites
- restrictions for drones and model aircrafts

Do you have a question? Then write to us:
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Ratings and reviews

Great app for searching for hiking routes and following them. It provides altitude profiles and estimated walk times which update as you progress. Care is required as some trails we followed were almost non-existent. Usefully, it shows up trail closures. Currently, however, it crashes a lot - probably 15 times on a walk today. It does restart quickly so crashes were not hugely disruptive.

I have used this app for quite some time like it a lot! One factor it sets it above competing apps is, that you always see the time left on your planned route which gets updated as you progress. But: In the last two months, the app crashes all the time when I have a route selected to follow it. It might be an issue related to zooming and relying on offline maps. I wasn't able to pinpoint it. I use version 1.11.0 on a Pixel 7 pro with Android 13.

Downloading offline maps does not work, or at least not for larger tiles. (This issue seems to be known for a couple of years.) ... In addtion to public transport, drinking water spots would be very helpful.

What's new

We have adapted our privacy policy and removed Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics. This means we comply with the new Federal Act on Data Protection, which comes into force on 1 September 2023. Various optimisations.
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