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Lausanne is located (as the crow flies) 51.7 kilometres (32 miles) northeast of Geneva, the nearest major city. [9] The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland convenes in Lausanne, although it is not the de jure capital of the nation.
In Europe, Google Street View began on 2 July 2008 with the route of Tour de France being covered in parts of France and Italy. The service has since expanded to many European countries, while at the same time has been controversial in some countries due to laws and privacy concerns .
General map errors in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States could be reported using the Report a Problem link in Google Maps and would be updated by Google. [180]
Aerial view from 300 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919) Ouchy harbour (2007) The Château d'Ouchy (2009) The Lausanne CGN boat in Ouchy (2007). Ouchy is a port and a popular lakeside resort south of the centre of Lausanne in Switzerland, at the edge of Lake Geneva (French: lac Léman).
About 4.2% of the workforce coming into Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne are coming from outside Switzerland. [17] Of the working population, 14.7% used public transportation to get to work, and 70% used a private car. [9] Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne hosts the headquarters of Kudelski SA, a company founded by Stefan Kudelski who invented the Nagra audio recorder.
Lake Geneva [note 1] is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France.It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône.
The capital, Lausanne, is the major city of the canton. There are light industries concentrated around it. In 1998, 71.7% of the workers worked in the tertiary sector and 20.8% in the secondary. The canton is the second-largest producer of wine in Switzerland.
Up until the early 1990s, The Flon was considered a bad area of Lausanne. The Group Lausanne-Ouchy SA decided to start major work in accordance with their Plan partiel d'affectation which was divided into two parts (Flon Flon vision 1 and vision 2). In June 1999 the Municipal Council adopted the Lausanne PPP.