Switzerland / 2014 58% open

Public transportation in Switzerland is run by a private company (SBB/CFF/FFS) with government regulation (see federal railroads law, in French). Open timetable data that is not supported by a Swiss transport agency can be found in an unofficial API: transport.opendata.ch

Since beginning of 2014, the SBB/CFF/FFS has started to published an export of the full timetable for Switzerland bus, train and other public transport modes on the Info+ system. This data is available for download after registration, and can be freely used and republished as long as the data is kept up to date and links are provided to the publisher. geOps AG also provides a GTFS feed of this data.

Commercial users need to obtain written permission, as per Liability and copyright page.

Licence for free geodata applies.

Information can be used for non-commercial purposes with attribution, as per Liability and copyright.

Any reproduction requires prior written consent, as per Terms and Conditions of the Federal Authorities.

Data is available for personal use: "publication of the whole database, or of parts of it, by any means is strictly forbidden". http://zefix.admin.ch/hrweb/eng/about.htm

Only a raster map with the scale 1:1.000.000 is provided for free. Swisstopo is generally selling its data via the online shop: http://www.toposhop.admin.ch/de/shop/index Only sample maps are provided which specifically exclude the possibility of any further use: http://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/internet/swisstopo/de/home/products/maps/national/digital/national/pk_25.html - An interactive map viewer with a all available layers and visualization of changes over time is available here: http://map.geo.admin.ch/ - A catalogue of all the existing geospatial data is available on a specific data catalogue for geo-data with detailed meta-descriptions: http://www.geocat.ch/ Swisstopo provides very detailed information on the last update of topographical maps, example here: http://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/internet/swisstopo/de/home/products/maps/national/25.html?mapnr=2#mapviewjump Many geographic data sets are now also available on the Swiss Open Government Data Portal: http://opendata.admin.ch/de/dataset?groups=raum-und-umwelt&_organization_limit=0

Reproduction requires prior written consent, as per Terms and Conditions of the Federal Authorities.

Annual spending data is provided, but not at a transactional level at: http://www.efv.admin.ch/f/dokumentation/finanzberichterstattung/staatsrechnungen.php