user & usage geo.admin.ch (okcon 2013)

OKCon 2013Geneva

Geoportal of the Swiss Confederation

USER & USAGEGEO.ADMIN.CH

David OeschFederal Office of Topography swisstopo

XX% (generally 80%) of [some form of data] has a location / spatial component

geo is important

Let’s look UNDER THE HOOD

WE HAVE

USERS

1

VISITORS last 3 years

Sep-10

Nov-10

Jan-11

Mar-1

1

May-1

1Ju

l-11

Sep-11

Nov-11

Jan-12

Mar-1

2

May-1

2Ju

l-12

Sep-12

Nov-12

Jan-13

Mar-1

3

May-1

30

50,000

100,000

150,000

200,000

250,000

300,000

DESKTOP

MOBILE

WHO ARE THE USERS

2

EVERYONE(oups)

cantons, parish, citizen, institutions

geo.admin.ch HITS 2011

FRENCH –ITALIAN PART

GERMAN PART BE & ZH

WHICH

DATAIS USED

3

WMTS LAYERS requests

Hiking DufourMap

SiegfriedMap

2011 2012

1. HIKING

1. HIKING

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

12

What do USERS SEARCH for ?

DATA search entries 2012/2013

HIKING

…removing *wander*..

HISTORICAL MAPS

WHICH TYPE OF

ACCESSIS USED

4

20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 200

200400600800

100012001400

0E+00

1E+08

2E+08

3E+08

4E+08

5E+08

6E+08

SERVICES# requests

DOWNLOADS

17

SERVICE usage increases stronger

than DOWNLOAD

What do we learn ?

PARADIGMCHANGE

5

from « DOWNLOAD DATA »

over « DATA SERVICE »

to « ACCESS TO INFORMATION »

BRINGING

DATA POTENTIAL

TO LIVE

6

MAP PORTALS DON’T WORK

axiom by @BrianTimon

ey

BUT

open ACCESS using open

SERVICES does work

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

not interaction with map interfaces

1 2USERSEXIST.

SERVEALL USERS.

3MORE THAN

HIKING.

4SERVICES.

5ACCESS TO

INFORMATION.

6BRINGING DATA

TO LIFE.

www.geo.admin.ch

map.geo.admin.ch

api.geo.admin.ch

info@geo.admin.ch

Twitter: @swiss_geoportal

THANK YOU

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