geo.admin.chthe Swiss Federal Geoportal− 5 years of cloud experience

Hanspeter ChristFederal Office of Topography swisstopo, Switzerland

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Introduction

* Coopers and Lybrand 1996, Economic aspects of the collection, dissemination and integration of government’s geospatial information Published by Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK.

geo is important

Up to 80% OF ALL DECISIONSaffecting the citizen are

linked to GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION*

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Current state

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

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Retrospect

We jumped on the RIGHT TRAIN

at the RIGHT TIME

© Bombardier

© Thomas Stutzwww.eisenbahnfotos.ch

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We jumped on the RIGHT TRAIN

at the RIGHT TIME

© Bombardier

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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWAREin conjunction with the

PUBLIC CLOUDis a real

«INNOVATION ENGINE»

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LAW and CLOUD, a perfect MATCH

…we have a CLOUD-FRIENDLY USE-CASE

GEODATA shall be…

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.“

IN AN EASY MANNER

MADE AVAILABLERAPIDLY

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AND AT REASONA-BLE COST

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STRENGTHS and LIMITS of the PUBLIC CLOUD

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Outlook

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1 is NOT ENOUGH

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We need an

OPEN HYBRIDCLOUD

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We need an OPEN HYBRID CLOUD

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