The SWISS WORLD ATLAS interactive was tested for the first time in a geography lesson at a secondary school. This test showed up that the limited broadband connection at schools could lead to performance losses, especially when a lot of students access a map at the same time. An improvement could be achieved by the Swisscom initiative "Internet for schools". Within this initiative, Swisscom is sponsoring high-broadband internet connections. Schools can now submit sponsorship applications to the relevant cantonal authorities.

The former chief editor of the SWISS WORLD ATLAS, Prof. Dr. h.c. Ernst Spiess, wrote an interesting final report about the history of the atlas between 1978 and 2008. (In German only)

The ETH students Carmen Müller and Christian Omlin completed their theses successfully  within the project of SWISS WORLD ATLAS interactive. Carmen wrote her Bachelor thesis about the integration of commentary contents to the interactive atlas version. Christian’s thesis is about the labeling of interactive block diagrams.

Which is the added value of the interactive atlas in comparison with the printed one? Which work steps have to be done to convert a printed map to an interactive one? – Watch the YouTube-video to get answers.