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

SwissTopo offers various geodata information on the territory through web mapping services, including the postal codes (layer name PLZ und Ortschaften).

Licence for free geodata applies.

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

A raster map with the scale 1:1.000.000 as well as several vector and geology datasets are provided for free. Additional data is sold via the online shop. An interactive map viewer with all available layers and visualization of changes over time is available here. A catalogue of all existing geospatial data is available on a specific data catalogue for geo-data with detailed meta-descriptions and detailed information on updates to topographical maps. Several geographic data sets will also be available on the Swiss Open Government Data Portal.

Any reproduction requires prior written consent, as per Terms and Conditions of the Federal Authorities. The Swiss Federal Geoportal provides other pollutant geo-datasets, some of which are also indexed in the Federal Open Government Data Portal, such as waterway Catchment data.

See Data management for some background on how data is collected and distributed at MeteoSchweiz.

Example Forecast page.

Tenders and bits conforming to GATT/WTO regulations are also published on Tenders Electronic Daily (TED).

Reproduction requires prior written consent, as per Terms and Conditions of the Federal Authorities. See Official Compilation of Federal Legislation (Wikipedia) for additional background in English.

PDF reports of the federal budget, containing data extracts, can be freely downloaded in French, German and Italian. An overview in English of next year's budget is also available online.

For more information see Land register of the Swiss cadastral system, as well as documentation of access to electronic landownership data (eGRIS) and Public-law Restrictions on landownership (ÖREB-Kataster).

For more information about the underlying datasets contact the Surface Water Hydrology Section of FOEN.

It is only possible to obtain companies data by inputting a search term into the search engine here: http://zefix.admin.ch/zfx-cgi/hrform.cgi/hraPage?alle_eintr=on&pers_sort=original&pers_num=0&language=4&col_width=366&amt=007 and it is not possible to browse or otherwise access the data without these restrictions.

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

There are daily summaries of new entries, changes and deletions to the register available to download on this page: http://zefix.admin.ch/shab/ but they are likely meant more as notifications than as a comprehensive resource.

Annual spending data can be obtained (English, French, German, Italian), but not at a transactional level. Detailed extracts of the yearly reports can also be downloaded in machine-readable form from the Swiss Federal Statistics Office.