OSM Data for Switzerland (Enhanced)

(Under construction)

This website will provide GeoParquet files for several thematic layers, including a unified Places (POIs) layer generated from the official Switzerland extract (source: OSM Data for Switzerland), buffered and including Liechtenstein, and the full extent of all border lakes.

About the Project “Cadence Maps Enhanced”

Cadence Maps is an analysis-ready OpenStreetMap data service implements by IFS. It is a community-first, pure-OSM, open, documented, and continuously updated data product designed to lower the barrier between raw OSM data and practical spatial analysis.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the gold standard for open geospatial object data of the Earth. However, using raw OSM data for spatial analytics typically requires substantial preprocessing and specialist knowledge. What many users need is analysis-ready, well-structured and documented data distributed in cloud-optimized GeoParquet format.

The Geofabrik data services and the open-source project LayerCake already provides high-quality building and highway layers derived from OSM data worldwide. Cadence Maps extends this foundation by adding:

• A simple distribution website (this website)
• A enhanced, unified Places (POIs) layer schema - if needed (under evaluation)
• An automated publishing pipeline - if needed (under evaluation)
• Related GeoParquet datasets (planned)

Using the Data

The GeoParquet files can be accessed using a wide range of modern data and GIS tools, as e.g. mentioned in the LayerCake website. All datasets will be optimized for efficient querying and scalable cloud-native workflows.

Licensing and Attribution

This dataset is derived from OpenStreetMap and is licensed under the
Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.

If you believe that any OpenStreetMap data infringes third-party rights, please contact the
OpenStreetMap Data Working Group.

Files (tbc.)

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