We render map tiles from the OpenStreetMap data with various styles. The Style descriptions and URLs are documented here.

Elevation Data

Some of our map layers use elevation data for hill shading and contour lines. The sources are:

• Cgiardem
• ASTER GDEM
  Area: Sweden, Norway, Finland and west of 24°O; 60–84°S
  ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA.
• Global Land Survey Digital Elevation Model (GLSDEM)
  Area: Iceland, Greennland
  USGS (2008), GLSDEM, 90m scene GLSDEM_p123r024_utmz13, Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Website:http://glcf.umd.edu/data/glsdem/
• EarthEnv-DEM90
  Area: Russia north of 60°–82°N, Finland and Norway 60–82°N east of 24°O
  EarthEnv Digital Elevation Model Version 1 by Natalie Robinson and the NCEAS Environment and Organisms (ENO) Working Group, licensed under CC-BY 4.0 Website: https://www.earthenv.org/DEM
• USGS National Elevation Dataset
  Area: Alaska
• Canadian Digital Elevation Model
  Area: Canada north of 60°N
  Canadian Digital Elevation Model is provided by Natural Resources Canada and licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Website: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7f245e4d-76c2-4caa-951a-45d1d2051333
• Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data
  Area: south of 84°S
  Danielson, J.J., and Gesch, D.B., 2011, Global multi-resolution terrain elevation data 2010 (GMTED2010): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1073, 26 p. Website: https://www.usgs.gov/land-resources/eros/coastal-changes-and-impacts/gmted2010?qt-science_support_page_related_con=0#qt-science_support_page_related_con

Thank you to Geofabrik for assembling the hill shading and contour lines and sharing them with us.

OpenStreetMap Carto with some customizations

This style follows the OpenStreetMap Carto style which is featured prominently on the openstreetmap.org front page. It is adapted to render for example the Mobility car sharing stations or to include a hill shading and contour lines.

• url: https://tile.osm.ch/switzerland/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
• attribution: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Elevation: ASTER GDEM, EarthEnv-DEM90, CDEM contains information under OGL Canada

Tiles for this style are also available for download at https://tile.osm.ch/tiles.html

Swiss lv03 projection (epsg:21781)

The same OpenStreetMap Carto style with some customizations, but in lv03 projection. Due to compatibility reasons, the extent of the layer is the same in in lv03 coordinates as it usually is for web Mercator, even though many projection libraries fail to do work for the whole planet. Using this layer, you can use lv03 coordinates and pretend they are web Mercator coordinates.

• url: https://tile.osm.ch/21781/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
• attribution: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Elevation: ASTER GDEM, EarthEnv-DEM90, CDEM contains information under OGL Canada

Swiss lv95 projection (epsg:2056)

The same OpenStreetMap Carto style with some customizations, but in lv95 projection. Due to compatibility reasons, the extent of the layer is the same in in lv95 coordinates as it usually is for web Mercator, even though many projection libraries fail to do work for the whole planet. Using this layer, you can use lv95 coordinates and pretend they are web Mercator coordinates.

• url: https://tile.osm.ch/2056/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
• attribution: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Elevation: ASTER GDEM, EarthEnv-DEM90, CDEM contains information under OGL Canada

Swiss Style from xyztobixyz

This is a very light style without any points of interest rendered. It is well suited for overlays of specific points of interest for example.

• url: https://tile.osm.ch/osm-swiss-style/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
• attribution: data © OpenStreetMap contributors, map cc-by xyztobixyz, Elevation: ASTER GDEM, EarthEnv-DEM90, CDEM contains information under OGL Canada

French language map

This map uses name:fr tags if available. Otherwise it is the same as Swiss Style from xyztobixyz

• url: https://tile.osm.ch/name-fr/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
• attribution: data © OpenStreetMap contributors, map cc-by xyztobixyz, Elevation: ASTER GDEM, EarthEnv-DEM90, CDEM contains information under OGL Canada

Italian language map

This map uses name:it tags if available. Otherwise it is the same as Swiss Style from xyztobixyz

• url: https://tile.osm.ch/name-it/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
• attribution: data © OpenStreetMap contributors, map cc-by xyztobixyz, Elevation: ASTER GDEM, EarthEnv-DEM90, CDEM contains information under OGL Canada

Rumantsch language map

This map uses name:rm tags if available. Otherwise it is the same as Swiss Style from xyztobixyz

• url: https://tile.osm.ch/name-rm/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
• attribution: data © OpenStreetMap contributors, map cc-by xyztobixyz, Elevation: ASTER GDEM, EarthEnv-DEM90, CDEM contains information under OGL Canada

Swiss German language map

This map uses name:gsw tags if available. Otherwise it is the same as Swiss Style from xyztobixyz

• url: https://tile.osm.ch/name-gsw/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
• attribution: data © OpenStreetMap contributors, map cc-by xyztobixyz, Elevation: ASTER GDEM, EarthEnv-DEM90, CDEM contains information under OGL Canada

Bern buildings

This rendering is only for contributors, to get the building outlines from the canton of Bern as a background when mapping. We have permission from Amt für Geoinformation des Kantons Bern to use their data “Amtliche Vermessung vereinfacht” for mapping.

• url: https://tile.osm.ch/bbe/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
• Only for mapping! Data from “Amtliche Vermessung vereinfacht” © Amt für Geoinformation des Kantons Bern

Transparent layer of contour lines

This layer does not contain any OpenStreetMap data. It can be used to add contour lines to en existing rendering, though it gives better results to render those lines below some features like roads and buildings.

• url: https://tile.osm.ch/contours/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
• attribution: ASTER GDEM, EarthEnv-DEM90, CDEM contains information under OGL Canada