Editing Swisstopo (section)

== Peculiarities ==

Some maps produced by Swisstopo scarcely have any Switzerland on it. This is especially true for the scales 1:100.000 and 1:50.000. As can be seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20050403125402/http://www.swisstopo.ch/images/maps/lk/100/mapview/45.jpg here], the map ''45 Haute Savoie'' only has a very little spot of Switzerland on it, in the extreme north-western corner. The same is true for the 1:50.000 map [https://web.archive.org/web/20090316024620/http://www.swisstopo.ch/images/maps/lk/50/mapview/285.jpg 285 Domodossola]. In both cases, no 1:25.000 maps have been published for the corresponding part of the 1:50.000 map: at the 1:25.000 scale, some maps are a tiny bit larger than others, to be able to get all of Switzerland onto a map without the need of maps with less than 0.1% domestic territory on it.

Initially, the plan was to be more generous also for 1:25.000 maps. Thirty-one maps were once planned, most of which did not have a single km^2 Switzerland on it, that were never published. Some of them (''1158 Zeinisjoch'') were up to ten kilometers away from the Swiss border. On old Swiss maps, one can still see the ''Blattübersicht'' were those are signified as ''planned maps''.

Some maps have been published in the past, but have been discontinued, also because they lack any part of Switzerland. ''1035 Friedrichshafen'' is an example of that. When one looks at the Mapsheet Index Northeast, there is no map to the east or to the north of ''1055 Romanshorn''. However, when one then looks at the area of ''1055 Romanshorn'', it can be seen that these maps do in fact exist, but do not have any Swiss land on the map.