Datasets

Returns available data sets. Note that the it is currently limited to collections following the naming scheme “^meteoschweiz.ogd-smn” which, as of July 2026, includes three different datasets:

Note that sg_options() (swissgeo.core package) allows to tune some of the httr2 options if needed.

{r setting_cooldown, include = FALSE} r sg_options(timeout = 25)

(ds <- ms_datasets())
# A tibble: 3 × 11
  id           title description license created             updated            
  <chr>        <chr> <chr>       <chr>   <dttm>              <dttm>             
1 ch.meteosch… Auto… SwissMetNe… CC-BY   2025-03-10 06:16:52 2026-07-09 21:49:13
2 ch.meteosch… Auto… SwissMetNe… CC-BY   2025-03-10 06:28:10 2026-07-09 21:48:10
3 ch.meteosch… Auto… SwissMetNe… CC-BY   2025-03-10 06:29:00 2026-07-09 21:48:11
# ℹ 5 more variables: itemType <chr>, crs <dttm>, extent <list>,
#   data_from <dttm>, data_to <dttm>
ds[, c("id", "title")]
# A tibble: 3 × 2
  id                             title                                          
  <chr>                          <chr>                                          
1 ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-smn        Automatic weather stations - Measurement values
2 ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-smn-precip Automatic precipitation stations - Measurement…
3 ch.meteoschweiz.ogd-smn-tower  Automatic tower stations - Measurement values

The function ms_datasets() returns a tibble data frame containing a series of information about the available datasets. From the APIs perspective each dataset is a collection, the term used from now on.

The most important one is the id which is used subsequently to retrieve data from one of these collections, specifically when calling ms_metadata() and ms_stationdata().