Cloud-native in Switzerland

Switzerland’s #CNG community is gathering on 29 October at Meta’s offices in Zurich for talks and demos, while a KGK-CGC workshop already dug into practical experience with #CloudNativeGeospatial data formats. Slides and a curated list of resources on when (and when not) to go cloud-native are now public.
Author

Ralph Straumann

Published

September 12, 2026

Two interesting updates around cloud-native1 geospatial in Switzerland:

CNG Zürich

For 29 October, the Swiss CNG2 community will gather in the Zurich office of Meta from 14:00 to 21:00 for “talks, demos, and community with (…) practitioners”, with a reception starting at 18:30. For now, there is only a “save-the-date”, more details will follow.

CNG Forum (source: CNG Forum)

KGK-CGC Workshop

On 3 September, the KGK-CGC3 held a Technical Workshop. One of the workshop topics was cloud-native geospatial. My colleague Stefan Oderbolz and I4, gave a talk about practical experience with various cloud-native data formats and how to deploy and use them (and when not to). Additionally, specialists from both the Land Registry and Surveying Office of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and the Office for Geoinformation of the Canton of Solothurn also presented on cloud-native geospatial from their perspectives. To my knowledge, their talks are not public (yet? – I will share them here if I get an update). Stefan and I published our slides (in German) as well as a broad selection of cloud-native geospatial resources (in English).

Footnotes

  1. I.e., taking full advantage of the cloud computing model; in the data world typically through enabling partial downloads of file contents through so-called HTTP range requests.↩︎

  2. Cloud-native geospatial.↩︎

  3. The Conference of the Cantonal Geoinformation and Cadastral Offices in Switzerland.↩︎

  4. Obvious transparency note here.↩︎