orux_swisstopo

2025-07-24, Hans Märki

Retrieved newest links from swisstopo and created CH_SwissTopo.zip 3.2G.

2024-04-30, Hans Märki

Build using pyenv

python -m venv .venv_orux
source .venv_orux/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt
python create_map_CH_SwissTopo.py

2021-06-19, Hans Märki

Rewrite a big part. All tifs will first be devided in subtiles of 100x100px. Then these subtiles are reassembled to tiles of 1000x1000.

This fixes oruxmap/doc/bug,

To build the maps (25'000 and higher), the target folder will be about 150 GBytes. target/maps/CH_SwissTopo.zip 3.2G

To build the maps (10'000 and higher), the target folder will be much more than 650 GBytes.

2021-04-18, Hans Märki

This scripts creates a offline map of the pixelmap of https://map.geo.admin.ch

You may download the map from https://www.maerki.com/hans/orux/CH_SwissTopo.zip. To use in Orux Maps, download the zip onto your computer and extract it. Now copy the two resulting files CH_SwissTopo.otrk2.xml and OruxMapsImages.db onto your android phone into the folder oruxmaps/mapfiles/CH_SwissTopo.

The map may be found now in Orux Maps under OFFLINE maps.

TODO: Refactoring rename

The names lon, lat are difficil to understand: Rename!

lon -> east_m

lat -> north_m