geo.admin.ch - the geoportal of the Swiss Confederation: bringing geodata potential to citizen David Oesch, swisstopo André Streilein, swisstopo

ISO Bulletin, July 2001 Picture by morgan.burke 2 At least 80% of public and private decision-making is based on some spatial / geographic aspects

Umsetzungskonzept zur Strategie für Geoinformation beim Bund 2003 Picture by lif : added value by private industry investment by government 14 Geoinformation market

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

Picture by floofy Federal Act on Geoinformation (GeoIG), 1. July 2008 Art. 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 pixel

….and mobile!

….and API! Mashups made easy data -> data as service -> interface to services

Picture by Iklasuhl Amal Characteristics tiles managed users/day, peak > users /day 1300 delivered tiles/s 150 thematic maps 5languages 1 portal tiles delivered since 08/2010

Demo But HOW did we achieve this How did we achieve this

Components Sea of laws API Applications Geoservices Tiles & Databases OS Software stack ViewSearch Access Cloud Computing

Picture by BasicGov by ul_Marg 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 manner in the required quality and at reasonable cost.

Infrastructure as a Service [Cloud Security and Privacy, by Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy, and Shahed Latif, ISBN ] Swisstopos choice Traditional (On Premise) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software as 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 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Scalability on demand

More power in a few minutes Scalability on demand

Open Access api.geo.admin.ch -> freemium Picture by ul_Marga 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 Picture by bekathwia 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 Picture by ravages Scalability on demand - innovation - reusable

..and it works! some awards: Picture by swisstopo

Future semantic web – linked data – web of things

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