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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!
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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
Twitter: @swiss_geoportal
THANK YOU
Image credits: Erik Johansson
http://www.slideshare.net/swiss_geoportal/
