The document summarizes Switzerland's national spatial data infrastructure (SDI) called geo.admin.ch, which is operated by swisstopo, the Federal Office of Topography. Some key points: - Geo.admin.ch provides easy and rapid access to Switzerland's authoritative geodata through web services, maps, and APIs in compliance with the Federal Act on Geoinformation. - It serves over 10,000 daily users and peaks at over 35,000, delivering over 1,300 map tiles per second. - The SDI utilizes cloud computing, open standards, open source software and open APIs to boost innovation and generate value-added services while ensuring scalability and reasonable costs.

1. EUROGI/eSDI-Net Awards 2011 Winner CATEGORY TECHNOLOGY geo.admin.ch: the SDI of the Swiss Confederation operated by: Federal Office of Topography swisstopo Dr. David Oesch, Project leader geo.admin.ch

2. Coopers & Lybrand 1996: Economic aspects of the collection, dissemination and integration of government’s geospatial information Picture by morgan.burke 2 60-80 % of all decisions related to citizens can be related to geoinformation

3. Picture by floofy Federal Act on Geoinformation (GeoIG), 1. Juli 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: SDI

4. tile à 256 2 pixel Result: fast & easy to use services

5. … .and mobile! Picture by swisstopo

6. Picture by Iklasuhl Amal 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

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

8. 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“

9. CloudComputing CloudComputing 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. ”

10. 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) 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)

11. Scalability on demand

12. More power in a few minutes Scalability on demand

13. Open Access API -> Mashups, RESTful Data -> generate value added services -> OpenGov Picture by ul_Marga Access not ownership is where all content is going… (Kevin Kelly)

14. Open Standards Services -> OGC (WMS, WMTS) Picture by bekathwia Data formats -> OGC (KML) It is all about interoperability

15. Open Source Picture by ravages Scalability on demand - innovation - reusable

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

17. Thank you for your attention and welcome to www.geo.admin.ch