# Kanton Zürich

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zh-ch/  
**Website:** https://www.zh.ch  
**APIs profiled:** 3

The Canton of Zurich (Kanton Zürich) is the most populous Swiss canton. Its administration publishes open government data through the Amt für Statistik und Daten metadata catalog (datenkatalog.statistik.zh.ch, ~740 datasets including 22 interfaces), a geoportal (geo.zh.ch), and a small set of public web services with published OpenAPI documents: the Tiefbauamt live traffic-count service (vdp.zh.ch) and the Bildungsstatistik BasicAPI for education data (bista.zh.ch).

## Kin Score — 37.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-11-13 under rubric 0.28.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 83.9 |
| Contract Quality | 60.7 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 14.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Access Clarity | 8.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 26.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 23.8 (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 | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| 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 | no |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (6)

- **Kanton Zürich Metadata Catalog Web Service** — JSON web service of the cantonal open-data metadata catalog (dataset entries with distributions, licences, contact points), published by the Fachstelle OGD as dataset 1461.
- **Kanton Zürich Collector configuration API** — Current MIV collector configuration.
- **Kanton Zürich Collector state API** — Current MIV collector state.
- **Kanton Zürich Funktional API** — The Funktional API from Kanton Zürich — 10 operation(s) for funktional.
- **Kanton Zürich Online Data API** — Ongoing and calculated vehicle data and aggregations.
- **Kanton Zürich Tests API** — The Tests API from Kanton Zürich — 2 operation(s) for tests.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Kanton Zürich Agentic Access** — 19 operations · 4 acting

## Security (3)

- **Kanton Zürich Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Kanton Zürich Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Kanton Zürich Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Government, Open Data, Switzerland, Statistics, Traffic, Education, Geodata

---

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