v4.0.0

We updated and changed everything! 🎉

• We use the shapefiles from FSO because they combine lakes and administrative areas in a way that is more suitable for display than using the raw swissBoundaries3D from swisstopo
• That means we now (finally!) have all the years covered from 2010 – 2021!
• Prepared and cleaned files are published as an npm package, so you don't need to run any scripts to get started
• We made a small website download the shapes in different formats (incl. SVG), so it should be easy to use swiss maps in Sketch et al. 🙌

More improvements coming in the future

3.3.0

Two new additions:

• SVG output, e.g. make svg/ch.svg
• Custom simplification, e.g. make topo/ch.json SIMPLIFY=5

3.2.1

Fixed encoding of .tsv files. Thanks @greut!

3.2.0

We haz 2015 boundaries (in addition to 2013 and 2014)!

3.1.0

• Added per-canton files with municipalities and lakes (e.g. make topo/be-municipalities-lakes.json)

3.0.1

• Remove shapefiles before recreating

3.0.0

Finally, lakes in combination with boundaries!

In order to combine the lakes with the boundaries, I had to switch (back) to the VEC200 source data because they're not included in SWISSBOUNDARIES3D, and the two datasets are too different to combine properly. See #11 for details.

Other additions and changes:

• 2014 boundaries
• PLZ (zip code) boundaries
• No more GeoJSON
• Improved directory structure
• Improved build process thanks to topojson-merge
• No properties are included by default anymore but name, id, and abbr are easy to include

2.1.0

• Specify custom properties
• Build historical municipalities

2.0.2

Fix loops for non-bash shells

2.0.1

Use higher resolution SRTM data for elevation contours.