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geo.admin.ch - the geoportal of the Swiss Confederation:bringing geodata potential to citizen
David Oesch, swisstopoAndré Streilein, swisstopo
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
Map viewer
tile à 2562 pixel
….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
twitter.com/swiss_geoportal
www.geo.admin.ch