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• Maps are colourful and have a general positive image. They appeal to the user
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curiosity and attract attention to a publication.
Official Statistical Mapping in Switzerland
Products and Institutions
Swiss Federal Statistical Office: The use of maps and other means of visualisation
in official publications by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) has been on the rise
since the late 1980s, when printed publications like the yearbook became colourful
(again). While the office published about 150 thematic maps in the early 1990s and
about 500 maps in the year 2000 annually, the use of maps has accelerated
impressively during the past 5 year. This development was nourished by an equally
rising demand for maps from customers and the implementation of new mapping
technologies, e.g. the introduction of a central regional data base and a modern atlas
platform (Schulz and Ullrich 2009 ). In 2012, the FSO, based in Neuch
atel, issued in
total 16,898 thematic maps (Fig. 2 ). Most of them, to be statistically exact: 11,386
maps, are available in interactive online atlases, which offer a variety of additional
features, e.g. data queries, thematic searches, charts, animations, or links to meta-
data and definitions on the Internet. Another 4,200 maps (around 25 %) are
available as individual applications, directly integrated in the official webpage.
And about 1,300 maps were produced and published as static maps in PDF format,
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Fig. 2 Published maps (all media formats) by the FSO between 2001 and 2012
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