Created to honor the impressionistic atmospheric quality of the work of Swiss topographic painter and cartographer, Eduard Imhof. These symbols and palettes allow for the application of an homage aesthetic when applied to layered hillshades and digital elevation models. An accompanying how-to resource is forthcoming.In the meantime, the Hillshade color scheme is intended to be applied to a traditional hillshade layer and a multidirectional hillshade layer. The Mist color scheme is intended to be applied to a DEM layer. When viewed in concert with an imagery basemap, the hues and opacities combine to create a distinctive quality.Here it is at a broader scale...Here is a map that uses the Area of Interest, Mask, and Locator layers...Contents:Alternatively, you can download an ArcGIS Pro project with the data and styles already implemented, and you can just start cranking away at Imhofs.Happy Topographic Painting! John Nelson

We have provided the code, DEM data, and all figures used in the paper.

This vector layer provides a detailed vector basemap for Switzerland in the local projection system CH1903+ LV95 featuring a classic Esri topographic map style. Layer designed for use with a Hillhade relief for added context. This vector tile layer provides unique capabilities for customization and high-resolution display.This layer includes highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, administrative boundaries, and shaded relief for added context. It is built on the datasets swissTLM3D, swissBOUNDARIES3D, and swissTLMRegio, and Swiss Map Vector 10 provided by swisstopo and is enhanced with owner parcels, roads and sidewalks provided by following cantons: AargauLV95 Swiss Topographic Map - Overview, Appenzell I.Rh., Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Fribourg, Genève, Glarus, Graubünden, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Ticino, Uri, Valais, Zug and Zürich.This is a multisource map style. This layer also includes vector contour lines. Even though there are two source paths in the layer's json, these are referenced from a single vector tile layer in this web map. The root.json style file calls two vector Hosted Tile Layers to display all the data in the map. One source (esri) contains all the basemap tiles for this layer. The other source (contours) contains all the contour lines. Use the Map Viewer (not Classic) to view all the features in this layer as intended.Use this MapThis map is designed to be used as a basemap layer or reference layer in a web map. You can add this layer to a web map and save as your own map. If you would like to use this map as a basemap layer in a web map, you may use the vector basemap LV95 Swiss Topographic (with Contours and Hillshade) web map.Customize this MapBecause this map includes a vector tile layer, you can customize the map to change its content and symbology. You are able to turn on and off layers, change symbols for layers. For details on how to customize this map, please refer to this article.DataThe source data can be downloaded from swisstopo's website and geodienste.ch.Data vintage: March 2025. The service is updated annually.Data vintage Contours: 2017

Survey of spatial planning instruments and the organization of land use planning in Swiss municipalities. In 2014, the survey was sent to all Swiss municipalities in letter and online form. The response rate of 69% (i.e. 1619 of 2352 municipalities at this time) results in a representative sample of Swiss municipalities. The survey contains questions on the implementation of 20 specific planning instruments and the decade they had been implemented at first, as well as details on the local planning regimes.