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geo.admin.ch: the SDI of the Swiss Confederationoperated by: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo

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

Coopers & Lybrand 1996: Economic aspects of the collection, dissemination and integration of government’s geospatial information

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60-80 % of all decisions related tocitizens can be related to geoinformation

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Federal Act on Geoinformation (GeoIG), 1. Juli 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: SDI

tile à 2562 pixel

Result: fast & easy to use services

….and mobile!

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Characteristics

500‘000‘000 Tiles

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

1‘300 delivered tiles/s

150 thematic maps

5 languages

1 portal

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

Open Access

Open Standards

Open Source Software

„boost innovation“

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 -> Mashups, RESTful

Data -> generate value added services

-> OpenGov

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

Open Standards

Services -> OGC (WMS, WMTS)

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Data formats -> OGC (KML)

It is all about interoperability

Open Source

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Scalability on demand - innovation - reusable

..and it works! some awards:

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