The swiss federal geoportal - more than maps geospatial world forum 2014

1 Federal Office of Topography swisstopo : federal geoportal www.geo.admin.ch 08.04.2023

Geospatial World ForumGeneva, 8.5.2014

The swiss federal geoportal www.geo.admin.ch

MORE THAN MAPS….

David Oesch, project lead, Federal Office of Topography swisstopo

2 Federal Office of Topography swisstopo : federal geoportal www.geo.admin.ch

Agenda

• Base: Geoinformation Act (GeoIG)• FSDI strategy• Realization: Federal Geoportal• Technology• Usage and statistics• Conclusio


Basics Geoinformation Act (GeoIG)

GeoIG Art. 1 Aim (1.7.2008)

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 and easy manner, in the required quality and at a reasonable cost.


Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure FSDI

-1991 www by Sir T. B. Lee

-1993 IDEA swiss-SDI

-1995 Internet Explorer 1

-1998 Google

-2001 STRATEGY swiss-SDI

-2004 OSM

-2005 Google Maps

-2008 LAW GeoIG

-2010 LAUNCH geo.admin.ch

Today: serving up to 100’000 visitors / day

Idea started in 1993 !


Agenda

• Base: Geoinformation Act (GeoIG)• FSDI strategy• Realization: Federal Geoportal• Technology• Usage and statistics • Conclusio


Swiss FSDI : «More than maps»:

The federal geodata portal is a publicly accessible platform for geographical information, data and services.

Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure (FSDI)

Basic Geodata Metadata Basic Geoservices

Technical Infrastructure

Standards Legal basisStrategy for distribution

and pricing

EducationTraining

Federal Network


FSDI: Organization

Customers: All federal offices

Service Provider: operated by Federal Office of Topography swisstopo

Project name: federal geoportal www.geo.admin.ch


Agenda



www.geo.admin.ch : portal, news, edu, community interaction…


…connect in 5 languages DE FR IT EN RM

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www.geocat.ch : Metadata

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map.geo.admin.ch : Different views thematic / agency / catalogues …

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…more than 340 datasets with metadata…


… covering time dimension


data.geo.admin.ch : Access raw data - link to opendata.ch


wm(t)s.geo.admin.ch : Access data as services : always up to date


api3.geo.admin.ch : RESTful interface to service , with API …


… on all devices: responsive design


Agenda



Technology: “The Project Managers view”

• Short procurement period

-> Boost innovation• High performance

-> Cost reduction• Scaling on demand

-> Flexibility

-> Cloud Computing & Open Source Software


Technology: architecture


[Cloud Security and Privacy, by Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy, and Shahed Latif, ISBN 978-0-596-80276-9]http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/swisstopo/

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)

Technology: Cloud Computing based

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/swisstopo/

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/swisstopo/


Technology: Open Source Software

github.com/geoadmin

- Openlayers3- Bootstrap- AngularJS

https://github.com/geoadmin/

https://github.com/geoadmin/


Agenda

• Base: Geoinformation Act (GeoIG)• FSDI strategy• Realization: Federal Geoportal• Technologie• Usage and statistics • Conclusio


FSDI: statistics 2013

1 GB outgoing traffic costs 4.80CHF

1 visitor costs 0.05 CHF

8 internal servers

99.95 % availability 7/24, since 5 yrs

100+ instances (server) in the cloud

200 TB Geodata delivered every year

500 API users

340 datasets available

2’800 Tiles /Sec delivered (peak)

100’000 visits FSDI / day

1’000’000 CHF OPEX per annum

2’000’000 unique visitors per annum

2’500’000’000 tiles available


FSDI: Growth 2012-2013 (2011-2012)

www.geo.admin.ch: unique visitors +15% (0%)

map.geo.admin.ch: unique visitors +20% (+45%)

mobile.map.geo.admin:unique visitors +50% (+360%)

wms.geo.admin.ch: requests +500% (+43%)

wmts.geo.admin.ch: requests +42% (+132%)

UPTIME: 99.95% (24/7) status.geo.admin.ch


Cloud Computing 1: Reduce CPU costs while having a growing SDI


Cloud Computing 2: Reduce bandwith costs while having a growing SDI


CloudComputing 3: survive slashdot effects

Statistics on Time series launch-day January 17th 2013:• 27’769 visitors • 39’928’306 map tiles delivered• 1.3 TB of data delivered• Peak of 2’600 tiles per second• 0% downtime

http://www.swisstopo.ch/de/index.html?flyoutPermalink=Y=600690&X=199845&zoom=7&bgOpacity=0&bgLayer=voidLayer&layers=ch.swisstopo.zeitreihen&layers_opacity=1&layers_visibility=true&timeseries_tab=playTab&timeseries_current=19381231&timeseries_compareOpacity=50&timeseries_direction=forwards&timeseries_fadeTime=2000


Agenda



5 yrs: Lessons learned

1) «Institutional jealousy»

-> get EVERYBODY on board

2) «everything is a cache unless you are the owner»

-> Data as Service vs Data Download

3) «Paralysis of Information»

-> Single topic maps / storymaps


Conclusio: Open Access

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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


Conclusio: Open Standards

Picture by bekathwia

It is all about interoperability

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

wms.geo.admin.ch -> OGC

map.geo.admin.ch -> all devices

wmts.geo.admin.ch -> OGC


Conclusio: Open Source

Picture by ravages

Scalability on demand - innovation - reusable


Widely recognized :


..and it works! some awards:

Picture by swisstopo

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