# swisstopo

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/swisstopo/  
**Website:** https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Swisstopo, the Federal Office of Topography, is Switzerland’s national geoinformation centre. It provides comprehensive geospatial data, maps, and services to the public, businesses, and authorities. The agency promotes open, transparent, and reusable geodata, supporting applications ranging from environmental monitoring to urban planning and navigation.

## Kin Score — 40.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-10-31 under rubric 0.25.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.3 |
| Contract Quality | 61.4 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 30.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 22.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | derived |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | no |

## APIs (4)

- **swisstopo Layers API** — Endpoints to list layers and their filters
- **swisstopo Vocabularies API** — Endpoints for listing vocabularies and their terms
- **swisstopo WMS API** — Endpoints to obtain WMS links for filtered layers
- **swisstopo WMTS API** — Endpoints to obtain WMTS layer source data

## Agentic access (1)

- **Swisstopo Agentic Access** — 34 operations · 2 acting

## Security (3)

- **Swisstopo Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Swisstopo Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Swisstopo Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Geodata, Government, Switzerland, Mapping, OpenData

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/swisstopo/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.