Federal Geoportal Achieves High Availability of Geospatial Data
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ESA Digital Transformation
9.3.2017
Zurich
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… seize gov agency relevance
Dr. David Oesch, COGIS Coordination, Geo-Information and Services
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
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Potential economic value geodata CH
Source «Umsetzungskonzept zur Strategie für
Geoinformation beim Bund 2003»
:
added value by
private industry
investment by
government
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if data is „accessible“
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… 13 awards later
99.98 % availability 7/7 24/24
400 TB of geodata delivered per year
600+ geodata layers available
+50% y/y growth visits on map viewer map.geo.admin.ch
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Paradigma I Openess
• Access
“Access not ownership is where all content is
going…”1)
• Standards
Interoperability: OGC ISO industry
• Software OSS
Innovation & reuse https://github.com/geoadmin/
1) K. Kelly http://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-own
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DEMO: SENTINEL DATA IN
MAP.GEO.ADMIN.CH
https://s.geo.admin.ch/71d59db3e5
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Paradigm II Cloud Computing
[Cloud Security and Privacy, by Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy, and Shahed Latif, ISBN 978-0-596-80276-9]
Our 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)
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/swisstopo
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«Seize your relevance»
1. Performance
2. Performance
3. Performance
4. Cloud (choose wisely)
5. Open minded