This project aims to create a framework for visualizing geographic and statistical data about Switzerland in 3D using WebGL, GeoJSON and OpenLayers.

Demo: http://opendata.utou.ch/alps

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Population: Szenarien zur Bevölkerungsentwicklung der Kantone der Schweiz 2010-2035 (Anzahl nach Altersklassen und Kantonen gemäss dem mittleren Szenario AR-00-2010, BFS). This gives us the current population per canton, and an estimate for about the next 20 years. JSON was created out of this data using Open Refine.

Commuters: Pendlermobilität in der Schweiz 2011 (BFS) is a newly released report that paints a picture of how people commute inside of Switzerland. We just converted the basic commuters-by-canton table into JSON with Open Refine.

Heat Map: Annual temperature trends (MeteoSchweiz) shows the increase in °C/Decade around the country. We matched these numbers by hand with the location of the primary measuring stations found in the List of changed station names, which we geocoded with OpenStreetMap's Nominatim. This was a painful exersize and we are looking forward to more open weather data!

We are looking for new ideas of what data to include in this visualization - please comment on the forum thread.

• loleg
• barbara

Created using:

• THREE.js
• D3.js
• fitprojection
• ParticleEngine (http://opendata.utou.ch/alps/august1.html)