The data from the Swiss region used in some examples is taken from two sources.

DEM

The SRTM page offers the interface to select the zone. In this case, the zones are srtm_38_03 and srtm_39_03.

To merge the zones and downscaling the resulting image, I resulting

gdalwarp -te 5.7 45.7 10.7 47.9 -ts 1000 0 *tif swiss.tiff

Which will create a width=1000 pixels image.

Contour

The border of switzerland is taken from this project: https://github.com/interactivethings/swiss-maps

Clone the project and run:

make topo/ch-country.json REPROJECT=true