{"slug": "swisstopo-app", "name": "swisstopo app", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 4, "warners": 0, "score": 2.857, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-12-01", "latest": "2026-10-26", "why": "I use them all the time for hiking, ski touring etc.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I use them all the time for hiking, ski touring etc.", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "admin.ch", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/swisstopo-app", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["swisstopo app", "SwissTopo", "swisstopo"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 803862112, "item_id": 50241382, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241382", "by": "comrade1234", "date": "2026-10-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They also have an execellent iOS app that I use whenever I'm hiking.", "excerpt": "They also have an execellent iOS app that I use whenever I'm hiking.", "context": "", "use_case": "Hiking maps (iOS)", "switched_from": "", "story": "Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale"}, {"id": 764313682, "item_id": 47769605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769605", "by": "ignoramous", "date": "2026-04-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SwissTopo (trails) are equally neat", "excerpt": "For Switzerland, for someone who likes railways, I found this guide (missing from guide.travel) to be quite nice: https://www.seat61.com/train-travel-in-switzerland.htm While planning the trip, I was annoyed by redditors on r/askswitzerland ending almost all replies on rail travel by asking folks to download the SBB Mobile app. To my surprise, even though I'm not the kind to install apps (let alone Flutter apps), it ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "guide.world: A compendium of travel guides"}, {"id": 737784208, "item_id": 46111513, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46111513", "by": "kakacik", "date": "2025-12-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use them all the time for hiking, ski touring etc.", "excerpt": "This is where screenshots come from, official topo data are free. I use them all the time for hiking, ski touring etc. Good thing they cover also neighboring mountains a bit (to varying detail) so ie France or Italy can be enjoyed just with a single app. Then you go further and realize how much worse free easy to find things are. There are variations of opentopomap but they lack the finesse of this. Also available in", "context": "", "use_case": "hiking and ski touring maps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland\u2019s maps (2020)"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["hiking maps (ios)", "hiking and ski touring maps"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240922", "title": "Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707382", "title": "guide.world: A compendium of travel guides", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945907", "title": "HeyWhatsThat", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107282", "title": "Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland\u2019s maps (2020)", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"compare": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 803862112, "item_id": 50241382, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241382", "by": "comrade1234", "date": "2026-10-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They also have an execellent iOS app that I use whenever I'm hiking.", "excerpt": "They also have an execellent iOS app that I use whenever I'm hiking.", "context": "", "use_case": "Hiking maps (iOS)", "switched_from": "", "story": "Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale"}, {"id": 764313682, "item_id": 47769605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769605", "by": "ignoramous", "date": "2026-04-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SwissTopo (trails) are equally neat", "excerpt": "For Switzerland, for someone who likes railways, I found this guide (missing from guide.travel) to be quite nice: https://www.seat61.com/train-travel-in-switzerland.htm While planning the trip, I was annoyed by redditors on r/askswitzerland ending almost all replies on rail travel by asking folks to download the SBB Mobile app. To my surprise, even though I'm not the kind to install apps (let alone Flutter apps), it ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "guide.world: A compendium of travel guides"}, {"id": 751773488, "item_id": 46985843, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985843", "by": "pierrebeaucamp", "date": "2026-02-11", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "This webapp seems to be more useful though", "excerpt": "Reminds me of the app from the Swiss federal office of topology (swisstopo), which has the same functionality (albeit limited to Switzerland, of course): https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/swisstopo-application This webapp seems to be more useful though, thanks for sharing.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "HeyWhatsThat"}, {"id": 737784208, "item_id": 46111513, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46111513", "by": "kakacik", "date": "2025-12-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use them all the time for hiking, ski touring etc.", "excerpt": "This is where screenshots come from, official topo data are free. I use them all the time for hiking, ski touring etc. Good thing they cover also neighboring mountains a bit (to varying detail) so ie France or Italy can be enjoyed just with a single app. Then you go further and realize how much worse free easy to find things are. There are variations of opentopomap but they lack the finesse of this. Also available in", "context": "", "use_case": "hiking and ski touring maps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland\u2019s maps (2020)"}]}