Since 2010, geospatial data of Swiss gov agencies can be viewed and accessed over geo.admin.ch in a fast, free and state of the art manner. Over 200 datasets are accessed by up to 50’000 users daily. In an analysis we show which datasets were actually requested by different user groups and our lessons learned to leverage usage itself

1. OKCon 2013
Geneva
Geoportal of the Swiss
Confederation
USER & USAGE
GEO.ADMIN.CH
David Oesch
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo

2. XX% (generally 80%) of [some
form of data] has a location /
spatial component
geo is important

3. Let’s look
UNDER THE HOOD

4. WE HAVE
USERS
1

5. VISITORS last 3 years
0
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
250,000
300,000
DESKTOP
MOBILE

6. WHO
ARE THE USERS
2

7. EVERYONE
(oups)
cantons, parish, citizen, institutions

8. geo.admin.ch HITS 2011
FRENCH –ITALIAN PART
GERMAN PART BE & ZH

9. WHICH
DATA
IS USED
3

10. WMTS LAYERS requests
Hiking
2011 2012
1. HIKING
1. HIKING

11. There more
than hiking on geo.admin.ch!

12. What do USERS SEARCH for ?
12

13. DATA search entries 2012/2013
HIKING

14. …removing *wander*..
HISTORICAL MAPS

15. WHICH TYPE OF
ACCESS
IS USED
4

16. 0
500
1000
1500
2010-09 2011-01 2011-05 2011-09 2012-01 2012-05 2012-09 2013-01 2013-05
0.E+00
1.E+08
2.E+08
3.E+08
4.E+08
5.E+08
6.E+08
SERVICES
# requests
DOWNLOADS

17. SERVICE usage
increases stronger
than DOWNLOAD
17

18. What do we learn ?

19. PARADIGM
CHANGE
5

20. from
« DOWNLOAD DATA »
over
« DATA SERVICE »
to
« ACCESS TO INFORMATION »

21. BRINGING
DATA
POTENTIAL
TO LIVE
6

22. MAP PORTALS
DON’T WORK
axiom by @BrianTimoney

24. open ACCESS
using
open SERVICES
does work

25. INFORMATION
RETRIEVAL
not interaction with map interfaces

26. 1 2
USERS
EXIST.
SERVE
ALL USERS.
3
MORE THAN
HIKING.
4
SERVICES.
5
ACCESS TO
INFORMATION.
6
BRINGING DATA
TO LIFE.

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