TOPOSKOP description

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

TOPOSKOP - a low-budget GIS for national biotope inventories

Object borders and object
data

Easy Access

TOPOSKOP has been designed to provide simple and efficient access to the data of the national biotope inventories (see below). It consists of two programs (only available for Macintosh): the TOPOSKOP graphic viewer, which creates a map overlaying the object boundaries of different inventories, and the DATASKOP database, a HyperCard application containing the data belonging to each object.

TOPOSKOP program with
documents

DATASKOP stacks

Apart from locating the site of any object and looking up the information you can also:

create your own maps of any area at any scale with whatever inventories of your choice.
create new layers with your own objects. (TOSPOKOP PLUS version)
export both the TOPOSKOP maps as well as selected data from the DATASKOP database to process them in other programs.

TOPOSKOP legend window and map window

Data Available

TOPOSKOP is distributed on a removable hard disk cartridge.

At present TOPOSKOP comes along with the following inventories:

Fenlands
Raised bogs
Mire landscapes
Flood plains
Bird sanctuaries
Refuges (no hunting)
Landscapes and natural monuments (BLN)
IRENA: Inventory of legally enforced nature protection sites in Switzerland
Semi-arid grasslands (cantonal inventories).
Amphibian spawning places

Communes, cantons, the natural regions and the boundaries of the topographical maps are included for orientation and treated in the same way as the inventories.