1.
geo.admin.ch
the Swiss Federal Geoportal
− 5 years of cloud experience
Hanspeter Christ
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Switzerland

2.
Introduction
2

3.
Up to 80% OF ALL DECISIONS
affecting the citizen are linked to
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION*
geo is important
* Coopers and Lybrand 1996, Economic aspects of the collection, dissemination and integration of
government’s geospatial information
Published by Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK.
3

4.
Current state
14

5.
«geo.admin.ch: the Swiss Federal Geoportal»
in figures
15

6.
Retrospect
16

7.
We jumped on the RIGHT TRAIN
© Thomas Stutz
www.eisenbahnfotos.ch
© Bombardier
at the RIGHT TIME
17

8.
We jumped on the RIGHT TRAIN
© Bombardier
at the RIGHT TIME
18

9.
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
in conjunction with the
PUBLIC CLOUD
is a real
«INNOVATION ENGINE»
19

10.
LAW and CLOUD, a perfect MATCH
GEODATA shall be…
RAPIDLY
MADE
AVAILABLE
IN AN EASY
MANNER
AND AT
REASONABLE COST
…we have a CLOUD-FRIENDLY USE-CASE
Definition of Cloud Computing, Fraunhofer-Institut, November 2010
„Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a
shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage,
applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned at reasonable cost and
released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.“
20

11.
STRENGTHS and LIMITS of the PUBLIC CLOUD
21

12.
Outlook
22

13.
1
is
NOT ENOUGH
23

14.
We need an
OPEN HYBRID
CLOUD
24

15.
We need an OPEN HYBRID CLOUD
25

16.
26
26