Cédric Moullet is the Head of Web Infrastructure at the Federal Office of Topography in Switzerland. He discusses his responsibilities managing open-source software projects for geospatial data and his contributions to projects like GeoExt and MapFish. He then demonstrates the mobile version of the Swiss national map viewer, mobile.map.geo.admin.ch, which allows users to access geospatial data and maps from their mobile devices. The mobile site uses the same data and services as the desktop version with an interface optimized for mobile and location services. It has been open-source since 2011 and serves over 1000 users per day.
2. www.cedricmoullet.com My Works Head of FSDI Web, COSIG, swisstopo Chief Technical Officer, Camptocamp Product Design Manager, Autodesk Project Manager, C-Plan Teaching Assistant, ETHZ My Education Geomatic and Survey engineer at EPFL Swiss official surveyor My OSS Responsibilities PSC Member GeoExt PSC Member MapFish PSC Member OpenAddresses Committer MapFish & OpenAddresses Contributor GeoExt & OpenLayers … blogger My OSS Contribution Street View Panel Google Earth Panel GeoNames Search Routing Panel MapFish Print WMTS www.openaddresses.org api.geo.admin.ch … more to come ;-) https :// twitter.com / cedricmoullet http:// www.facebook.com /#!/ cedric.moullet
4. «geo.admin.ch: the federal spatial data infrastructure» Federal Act on Geoinformation (GeoIG), 1. Juli 2008 Art. 1 Aim This Act has the aim of ensuring that geodata relating to the territory of the Swiss Confederation is made available for general use to the authorities of the Confederation, the cantons and communes, the private sector, the public and to academic and scientific institutions in a sustainable, up-to-date, rapid and easy manner , in the required quality and at a reasonable cost .
5. «geo.admin.ch: the federal spatial data infrastructure» „ 60-80 % of all decisions related to citizen can be related to geoinformation“ 1 Characteristics of FSDI 5 00‘000‘000 Tiles (256 2 Pixels) 20‘000 users/day, Peak > 35‘000 users/day 1‘300 delivered Tiles/sec (Peak 20. Aug. 2010) 150 Thematic maps 5 languages 1 web site 1 Coopers and Lybrand 1996, Economic aspects of the collection, dissemination and integration of government’s geospatial information, Published by Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK.
6. Map Viewer map.geo.admin.ch : Bern City evolution
7. Map Viewer map.geo.admin.ch : Bern City evolution
9. Some arguments for mobile In 2011, 44% of the swiss citizen use internet on mobile devices (Source: Accenture) 83 % of the swiss citizen have mobile devices connected to internet ( Source: Accenture) A big proportion of the daily 140 million Twitter-Tweets are written on mobile devices -> Federal Act on Geoinformation requires „ wide usage “
10. mobile.map.geo.admin.ch New design Equivalent functions like in map.geo.admin.ch Same data and same services Geolocation Mobile API Open Source Software -> Live since 1.9.2011 with 1000 user per day
16. mobile.map.geo.admin.ch Architecture MapFish Framework Sencha Touch GXM OpenLayers Mobile GeoAdmin API mobile.map.geo.admin.ch
17. Conclusion Mobile Internet is not an hype mobile.map.geo.admin.ch is not an app but a web application -> no dependency with others, thanks to HTML5 Mobile API for third party developments Cloud computing flexibility and scalability allows easily to deliver such applications