seantis/swiss-municipalities

Name: swiss-municipalities

Owner: seantis gmbh

Description: Useful data around Swiss Municipalities as JSON

Created: 2015-10-14 12:36:33.0

Updated: 2017-10-12 04:21:10.0

Pushed: 2018-01-04 16:31:22.0

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Language: Python

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README

Swiss Municipalities as JSON

This repository provides useful data around Swiss Municipalities from the “Historisiertes Gemeindeverzeichnis” (historical municipalities directory) provided by the Swiss government:

http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/nomenklaturen/blank/blank/gem_liste/02.html

The provided data is very thorough but not easy to deal with. It's a pretty information-dense XML file. This repository means to build useful JSON data using said XML. Data that can be understood without reading a lengthy manual.

So far there's only one resulting output, but there may be more.

Outputs

Municipalities by Year/Canton/Id (BFS-Nummer)

The by_year.py python script provides the full municipality name as well as the district - if available - keyed by the id/BFS-Nummer. It provides separate files by year and canton as well as one large file with all years and all cantons.

To generate the latest data run python by_year.py. Note that this script requires Python 3.4+.

URL

The URL file contains the url to the “Historisiertes Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz (XML Format)” zip file of the Swiss Governement. This url may change over time (especially when new data is released around new year). It is found on the website mentioned at the beginning of this readme.