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A new version of the Atlas of Switzerland – online is now available for download free of charge. For the first time, it includes a Mac version, which enables brilliant views of Switzerland and related topics on the Retina Display. The upgrade also [...]
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At the 28th International Cartographic Conference in Washington, DC (USA) in July 2017, the “Atlas of Switzerland – online” received two awards in the category „Digital Products“: the Special Price of the Public (Public vote) and the 3rd Price of the [...]
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The teaser movie of the "Atlas of Switzerland – online" shows how users can explore various features of glaciers and alpine huts. Have a look!
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The Atlas of Switzerland publishes interesting 3d maps from different fields like e.g. nature and environment, history, energy, economy, or social life in a continuous way. Here is a vivid example of such a 3d map, showing all Swiss beer breweries.
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The elevation model outside of Switzerland was recalculated with a higher resolution – from 150 m (left) up to 75 m (right).
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In the new version of the Atlas of Switzerland, we created a variety of cartographic visualizations that make use of the third dimension. The challenging part for us is to make an intuitive visualization both in 2D and in 3D. [...]
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We are pleased to invite you to our presentation on the development of the Atlas of Switzerland - online. The event will take place on the 29th of June, at 17:30 at ETH Main Building, Lecture Room: E 1.1. [...]
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The main idea behind this new version of Atlas of Switzerland is to build a common platform for online atlases. We named it Atlas Platform Switzerland or APS. [...]
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We started the new Atlas of Switzerland (AoS) project with a comprehensive ten-years concept, where the graphical user interface (GUI) has been designated as an essential part of our interactive atlas. [...]
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