virtual geodata: bringing geodata potential to citizen

Virtual geodata for geographyVirtual geodata for geographyInstitute of Geography, University of BernInstitute of Geography, University of Bern15. November 201115. November 2011

geo.admin.ch - the geoportal of the Swiss Confederation:bringing geodata potential to citizen

Dr. David Oesch, Project leader geo.admin.ch

ISO Bulletin, July 2001

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At least 80% of public and privatedecision-making is based on somespatial / geographic aspects

Umsetzungskonzept zur Strategie fürGeoinformation beim Bund 2003

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:added value by private industry

investment bygovernment

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Geoinformation market

Infras (2008): Analyse Geoinformationsmarkt Schweiz. Roman Frick, David Finger. GFX: Ralph Straumann, www.ralphstraumann.chInfras & IWV (2002): Analyse Geodatenmarkt Schweiz. Roman Frick, MarioKeller, Anna Vettori, Joel Meier, Dieter Spahni.

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Federal Act on Geoinformation (GeoIG), 1. July 2008Art. 1 Aim

This Act has the aim of ensuring that geodata relating to the territory of the Swiss Confederation is made

available for general use to the authorities of the Confederation, the cantons and communes, the private sector, the public and to academic and scientific

institutions in a sustainable, up-to-date, rapid and easy manner, in the required quality and at a

reasonable cost.

Law

Result 1860 Dufour map

tile à 2562 pixel

1870 Siegfried map

2006 Buildings

… create your own map style

Agglomeration …

affected in case of a nuclear incident

….and mobile!

….and API! Mashups made easy

data -> data as service -> interface to services

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Characteristics

500‘000‘000 tiles managed

10‘000 users/day, peak > 35‘000 users /day

1‘300 delivered tiles/s

150 thematic maps

5 languages

1 portal

1‘000‘000‘000 tiles delivered since 08/2010

Demo

• But HOW did we achieve this

Howdid we achieve this

Components

Sea of laws

API

Applications

Geoservices

Tiles & Databases

OS Software stack

View Search Access

Cloud Computing

CloudComputingCloudComputing

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Definition Cloud Computing Fraunhofer-Institut, Nov 2010

„Cloud Computing is a model, which ensures «on-demand» and online access to a shared pool of configurable computing-ressources such as networks, servers, storagesysteme, apps and services. Those can be made available

rapid with minimal admininstration effort customized and cost effective.“

Federal Act on Geoinformation(GeoIG)Art. 1 Aim, Jul 2008

„This Act has the aim of ensuring that geodata relating to the territory of the Swiss Confederation is made available for general use to the authorities of the Confederation, the cantons and communes, the private sector, the public and to academic and scientific institutions in a sustainable, up-to-date, rapid easy mannerin the required quality and at reasonable cost.”

Infrastructure as a Service

[Cloud Security and Privacy, by Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy, and Shahed Latif, ISBN 978-0-596-80276-9]

Swisstopo‘s choice

Traditional(On Premise)

Platformas a Service

(PaaS)

Softwareas a Service

(SaaS)

Apps & Services

VM

Server

Storage

Network

Apps & Services

VM

Server

Storage

Network

Applications

Services

Server

Storage

Network

Applications

Services

Server

Storage

Network

Organization has control and

responsibility

Organisation shares control and responsibility with

Cloud-provider

Cloud provider has control and

responsibility

Infrastructureas a Service

(IaaS)

Scalability on demand

More power in a few minutes

Scalability on demand

Open Access

api.geo.admin.ch -> „freemium“

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Access not ownership is where all content is going… (Kevin Kelly)

wms.geo.admin.ch -> open

geo.admin.ch -> open

map.geo.admin.ch -> open

Open Standards

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It is all about interoperability

api.geo.admin.ch -> RESTful, OGC

wms.geo.admin.ch -> OGC

geo.admin.ch -> all browsers/devices

map.geo.admin.ch -> (all) browsers/devices

Open Source

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Scalability on demand - innovation - reusable

..and it works! some awards:

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Future

semantic web – linked data – web of things

Thank you for your attention and welcome to

david.oesch@swisstopo.ch

twitter.com/swiss_geoportal

www.geo.admin.ch