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Swiss Official ICAO Chart Overlay

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By johnichio - 11/14/2022 5:42:28 PM

In Switzerland, ATC and other pilots, strongly prefer to only ever use names of places that are listed on the official ICAO chart.

SkyDemon has a couple of issues:

1) There are places listed in SkyDemon that are not on the ICAO chart.
2) There are places on the ICAO chart _not_ listed on SkyDemon.

The first is a larger problem, since a pilot may be tempted to report their position using a name not listed on the ICAO chart, and the ATC or other pilots in the area would have no idea.

What kinds of workarounds are available to alleviate this issue?
By paalia - 1/20/2026 3:50:12 PM

Tim Dawson - 8/21/2024 9:15:37 AM
What is an example of a wrong point in our map? If there is anything incorrect in our maps, we fix it.

I'm necroing this thread, because I found no more recent discussion of this topic. The chart for Switzerland is really pretty bad in comparison to our ICAO chart.

To give some examples: 
- If you look at Zurich area, you guys have 'Zurich (Kreis 9) on your chart. I have no idea where you got that from, but Bremgarten just west of that is missing from your charts.
- If you look further south along the lake, north of LSPV, ICAO chart references Pfaeffikon, but your charts reference Freienbach.
- West of that, near Unteraegeri, ICAO chart references Menzingen, which is completely missing from your charts
- West of Unteraegeri, you find Zug. But Baar and Cham are totally missing, though they are ICAO reference points

To be frank, there's too many of these to list exhaustively. And it's very frustrating because I know certainly ICAO data is public information, and they are important references for communication in Switzerland. It also seems that since this discussion 1.5 years ago, nothing has been worked on here?