{"id":1990,"date":"2025-05-19T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:48:27","slug":"how-to-add-a-swisstopo-layer-in-qgis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/how-to-add-a-swisstopo-layer-in-qgis\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a Swisstopo layer in QGIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em><em>Image: Dufour Map, first edition, 1845-1865, from the federal geoportal<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>In QGIS, you can add all the layers from the federal geoportal (map.geo.admin.ch) to your project. Once you have established a connection to the Web Map Service of Swisstopo, you are ready to use the layers in all your QGIS projects.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following tutorial shows you how to proceed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250516_QGIS_2_Add-Swisstopo-Layers-3.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 250516_QGIS_2_Add Swisstopo Layers.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-7958e3ab-2fe8-46f5-9ed8-690ff120d5dc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250516_QGIS_2_Add-Swisstopo-Layers-3.pdf\">250516_QGIS_2_Add Swisstopo Layers<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250516_QGIS_2_Add-Swisstopo-Layers-3.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-7958e3ab-2fe8-46f5-9ed8-690ff120d5dc\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In QGIS, you can add all the layers from the federal geoportal (map.geo.admin.ch) to your project. This tutorial shows you how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,253],"tags":[44,266],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qgis","category-tutorial","tag-geographic-visualisation","tag-swisstopo","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dufourkarte_extent.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Katia Soland","author_link":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/author\/ksolan\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis-hub.uzh.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}