Anyone knows a way these can be queried from an iPhone?

Besides a 'hack' like printing something off http://map.schweizmobil.ch/ into a PDF and loading it into the iPhone. Something I can do when out and about.

In case anyone tries to figure this out, here is the solution! Very useful if you are out biking and trying to figure out if you have enough juice to get to the next town.
http://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/intern...iph.49267.html

Mmmm, the iPhone maps seem a bit dear, at 85 CHF a pop!

But pretty dear, at CHF 85 per map section!

I see from another thread that you are planning to do the Haute Route; for this you would only need one map section (which might not cover the French section).

If you have a Garmin GPS receiver there are free maps from the Open Street Map project: Kowoma Swiss Map and the Map of the Alpine Regions.

Thanks for the info, RNH. (And thanks for all the info you've posted here and elsewhere about the Haute Route -- I've found it extremely helpful!) Yes, I went to the Swisstopo website, and it looks like all of Valais is on one of their "sections," so the cost to get the maps for that trip is as low as it could be. I do have a Garmin, but it's a tiny Foretrex that I just use for backpacking, and it has no mapping capability. I was hoping to use my new iPhone for that. I also have the paper maps, of course, and Kev Reynolds's book—I'd never commit myself to a single method of navigation, especially an electronic one.

Tearly, if you're still on the forum, how have you found using the maps and the app, after six months or so? The user reports on the iTunes app store are pretty variable, but that seems to be the case for most apps. You can't please all the people all the time: surprise!

—B2

And off topic (ish)

swisstopo is hosted on Amazon Web Services out of Dublin

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/swisstopo/