This document summarizes information about Switzerland's geoportal and geodata initiatives. It discusses how 60-80% of citizen decisions relate to geoinformation. It outlines the Federal Act on Geoinformation, which aims to make geodata available to authorities and the public. It introduces the map.geo.admin.ch portal and its layers, functions, and mobile support. It also describes the open-source GeoAdmin API, widgets, and REST services that allow access and use of the geodata. Terms of use are discussed as well as the open-source stack and cloud infrastructure supporting the system.

1. Ville de Lausanne
15. June 2012
geo.admin.ch & Open *
Cédric Moullet
Head of FSDI Web Infrastructure

2. 60-80 % of all decisions taken by
citizens can be related to
geoinformation
Coopers & Lybrand 1996: Economic aspects of the
collection, dissemination and integration of
government’s geospatial information
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3. Federal Act on
Geoinformation
LAW

4. ARTICLE 1
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.

5. MAP.GEO.ADMIN.CH
THE DATA VIEWER
… and a bit more …

28. MAP.GEO.ADMIN.CH
Free application … for all
of you !
159 layers available (more to come)

29. MAP.GEO.ADMIN.CH
Some functions ?

30. Location and
address search

31. Geolocation

32. Permalink

33. Print

34. KML Import

35. Measure
Distance – Surface - Azimut

36. Profile

37. WMS Import

38. Drawing

39. THIS WORKS ON MOBILE

40. TOO…

42. FSDI – some numbers
650‘000‘000 STORED TILES
30‘000 USERS/DAY, PEAK > 50‘000
1‘300 MAX TILES/S
+62% TRAFFIC (MAI 2012 vs 2011)
30TB OUTGOING DATA
159 THEMATIC MAPS
5 LANGUAGES
1 PORTAIL
Picture by Iklasuhl Amal

43. Can I use all these data ?
YES

44. API.GEO.ADMIN.CH
THE API

45. API.GEO.ADMIN.CH
Mobile
GeoAdmin
GeoAdmin
API
API
REST
Widgets
Services

46. Fu
ll
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GeoAdmin API
Open Source
Free of use
Based on OpenLayers – ExtJS –
GeoExt
JavaScript
IE – FF – Chrome – Safari
api.geo.admin.ch
Tutorial - Doc – Forum –

47. GeoAdmin API – Hello World

48. GeoAdmin API

49. Li
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ht
- ea
Light
sy
GeoAdmin API
Open Source
Free of use
Based on OpenLayers
JavaScript
IE – FF – Chrome – Safari
api.geo.admin.ch
Doc – Forum – Examples

50. Light GeoAdmin API – Hello World

51. M
ob
ile
Mobile
GeoAdmin API
Open Source
Free of use
Based on OpenLayers –
GeoExt Mobile – Sencha
Touch
JavaScript
WebKit browsers

52. C
om
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nt
s
Widgets
Open Source
Free of use
Based on OpenLayers –
GeoExt – ExtJS
JavaScript
IE – FF – Chrome – Safari
Examples

53. Widgets – Hello World

54. R
ES
TF
ul
REST Services
Open Source
Free of use (except
swisssearch, profile, height)
RESTFul / callback
JSON or GeoJSON’s
response
Doc

55. REST Services

56. REST Services - WMTS
25’000 MPx free per year
Free localhost access
Product:
swisstopo web access WMTS
Non free layers:
ch.swisstopo.vec25-einzelobjekte ch.swisstopo.vec25-eisenbahnnetz
ch.swisstopo.vec25-gebaeude ch.swisstopo.vec200-miscellaneous-geodpoint
ch.swisstopo.vec200-names-namedlocation ch.swisstopo.vec200-transportation-oeffentliche-verkehr
ch.swisstopo.vec200-transportation-strassennetz ch.swisstopo.vec25-gewaessernetz
ch.swisstopo.vec25-heckenbaeume ch.swisstopo.hiks-dufour
ch.swisstopo.geologie-geologischer_atlas ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe
ch.swisstopo.hiks-siegfried ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe-pk200.noscale
ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe-pk100.noscale ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe-pk50.noscale
ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe-pk25.noscale ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-grau
ch.swisstopo.pixelkarte-farbe-pk500.noscale ch.swisstopo.swissbuildings3d
ch.swisstopo.swissalti3d-reliefschattierung ch.swisstopo.swisstlm3d-karte
ch.swisstopo.swissimage ch.swisstopo.vec200-building
ch.swisstopo.swisstlm3d-wanderwege ch.swisstopo.vec200-landcover
ch.swisstopo.vec200-hydrography ch.swisstopo.vec200-miscellaneous
ch.swisstopo.vec200-landcover-wald ch.swisstopo.vec25-strassennetz
ch.swisstopo.vec25-primaerflaechen ch.swisstopo.vec25-uebrigerverkehr
ch.swisstopo.vec25-anlagen
All others (about 130 layers): free

57. Terms of use

58. «geo.admin.ch» on Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS)
swisstopo‘s
choice
On Premise IaaS PaaS SaaS
Apps & Apps & Applikation Applikation
Services Services en en
VM
VM Services Services
Server Server
Server Server
Speicher Speicher
Speicher Speicher
Netzwerk Netzwerk Netzwerk
Netzwerk
Cloud-Consumer and
Cloud-
Organisation has provider
providerhas the
the responsibility Share the
responsibility
responsibility
[Cloud Security and Privacy, by Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy, and Shahed Latif, ISBN 978-0-596-80276-9]

59. Open Source Stack
Applications
Services /
Virtual Linux-Server
Middleware
OS
@swisstopo @cloud @swisstopo @cloud
today: NO CLOUD today: Public Cloud planned: Hybride Cloud planned: usage of
other clouds

60. OPEN STANDARDS
OPEN SOURCE
OPEN MINDED
Code sprint organizer for the
mobile support
Write once – use several times !

61. Vendor-Lockin minimal dank Automatisierung mit
puppet, sowohl On Premise als auch in der Cloud

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63. CONCLUSION
IT IS ALL ABOUT
OPEN ACCESS
OPEN STANDARDS
OPEN SOURCE

64. AWARDS
United Nations Public Service Awards is the most prestigious
international recognition of excellence in public service. It rewards
the creative achievements and contributions of public service
institutions that lead to a more effective and responsive public
administration in countries worldwide.
Picture by swisstopo

65. THANKS
www.geo.admin.ch
map.geo.admin.ch
api.geo.admin.ch
info@geo.admin.ch
Twitter: @swiss_geoportal