+xAs far as I can tell, you are talking about towns. Towns are not aeronautical data, and they are certainly not ICAO entities. If they were aeronautically-significant, they would be part of AIP Switzerland and we would include them, likely as VRPs.
Chart authors pick which towns they show in the scenery of a chart either cartographically or algorithmically. Because our charts are vector-based and zoomable to any scale, towns are selected algorithmically based on population size. They are not designed to match the town selections of any other chart.
Over the years we have indeed had a few people ask for the Swiss towns in our chart to match those in the Swiss ICAO chart. It's not clear what those people would expect to happen to the town selection upon zooming in and out, though.
Thanks for your reply. I am not talking about towns per se, I am talking specifically about reference points on the official Swiss ICAO charts (which often happen to be towns).
If I understand you correctly, SkyDemon will display towns or (random?/non VRP) reference points dynamically based on zoom level.
What I fail to understand is why you couldn't cross reference the ICAO chart, and ensure that the towns/reference points documented there, are persistently displayed on SkyDemon, regardless of zoom level?
While I acknowledge that these points may not be AIP/REP points; fact is those base chart points are important and generally used in communication when flying VFR in Switzerland.
As others in this thread have noted, lists have been previously provided for that purpose, but it seems nothing was done with that data? I'm not sure how technically hard it is to implement what I suggested above, but I imagine you already have the tools to do so?
I do have to say, that for a new pilot such as myself, the lack of these points is a bit of a deal breaker..