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🇨🇭 Geneva

SITG Open Territorial Data Platform

A network of 18 public partners has centralised Geneva canton's geodata since 1991 — land use, energy, trees, hazards and more — much of it free to download or query via geoservice APIs.

Live 📅 since 1991

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📡 Data & IoTOpen data
Scale🗺️ Regional

📖 Terms in this entry: Digital twin · GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) · Open data

Sources

↗ SITG (authority)Official catalogue and access point for Geneva's territorial geodata; 1,345 datasets, web-service APIs, download and 3D interfaces.
↗ SITG — À propos (authority)18 public-partner contributors; usage-conditions link; confirms much (not all) data is free to reuse.
↗ opendata.swiss (registry)National open-data portal listing of SITG datasets.
↗ Geodata and territorial governance: the institutional trajectory of SITG (peer-reviewed, Netcom)Independent academic account confirming the 27 March 1991 founding decree by the Geneva Conseil d'État.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇩🇰 Copenhagen's Contribution to Open Data DK · Copenhagen Same shared-infrastructure model: a multi-partner geodata platform, just canton-led in Geneva instead of city-led in Copenhagen. 🇸🇪 Stockholm Open Data Portal · Stockholm Stockholm still scatters data across separate department portals; Geneva's 18 partners unified onto one in 1991. 🇨🇭 Open Data Zürich: CC0 Government Data Catalogue · Zürich Switzerland's other cantonal portal is two decades younger: Zurich opened in 2012, Geneva's network in 1991.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “SITG Open Territorial Data Platform” — Geneva, Switzerland. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/geneva-sitg/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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