Open Geodata, DIT, December 2010

Open GeoData: And overview and practical introduction Richard Cantwell Principal www.geographic.ie [email_address] twitter.com/GeoGraphicIE

Open GeoData: And overview and practical introduction Richard Cantwell Senior GIS Consultant www.gamma.ie [email_address]

Cartography.. Spatial Data.. GIS.. all changing. http://www.axismaps.com/typographic.php

Open Knowledge: “ A piece of content or data is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.” http://www.opendefinition.org/ What is Open? http://flic.kr/p/7Aqgs5

Publish data in web-standard format (that means XML, not PDF, XLS, DOC...) Standards: INSPIRE, W3C, OGC. Community: Plug into existing, attract new userbase. Build it, Publicise it, Use it and they will come.. All dependent on Open Data & Standards http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

New ways of visualising and exploring data http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4982034696/

New sources of GeoData http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4672160490

New methods of extracting GeoData http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/flickr-as-a-paintbrush/

Social Networks – a rich source www.weeplaces.com

Open Data http://www.oobrien.com/vis/bikes/

New Geographies http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/urbantick/maps/london_ncl_100628.html

New Technologies http://prettymaps.stamen.com/

Augmented Reality Browser http://www.walkspace.org/namaland/

Creative Commons Licenses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses

Web Mapping – Current Licenses in use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_map_services *

Data vs API

Huge changes in the UK http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/

Free government data isn't necessarily the answer http://www.slideshare.net/pmbatty/geodata-creationpast-present-and-future

Web Mapping http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/

Pre rendered tiles AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Open API's Rapid development Key Innovations http://flic.kr/p/6xM7Ej

OSi Data http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/

SRTM http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/

Geonames http://www.geonames.org/

Landsat http://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl

Local Authorities beginning to embrace Open Data http://data.fingal.ie/

Local Authorities beginning to embrace Open Data http://www.dublin.ie/maps/

Building blocks being put in place http://ie.ckan.net/

http://labs.geofabrik.de/history OpenStreetMap

Large Community, Rapid Growth http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats

Frequent Updates http://www.itoworld.com/static/osm_mapper.html

www.osm-wms.de Services & Capabilities Expanding

Vector Data - Cartography http://maps.cloudmade.com/editor

Custom POI Maps http://www.lenz-online.de/cgi-bin/osm/osmpoinit.pl

OpenIrishMap http://www.technomancy.org/openirishmap/

Timeliness http://www.openstreetmap.org

Haiti OSM 11 th Jan 2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264767/

Haiti OSM 14 th Jan 2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264771

http://walking-papers.org GPS Mapping – on Paper

Irish Use Example

OSM in 3D http://www.osm-3d.org

Open Source Geo Software http://www.osgeo.org/

Open Source Geo Services http://www.geocommons.com

OpenStreetMap Data & Services http://www.geofabrik.de

OpenStreetMap Data & Services http://www.cloudmade.com

Online Reading opengeodata.org www.vicchi.org povesham.wordpress.com groups.google.com/group/open-data-ireland www.spatiallyadjusted.com www.edparsons.com geothought.blogspot.com knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/giscussions oliverobrien.co.uk mike.teczno.com www.geographic.ie http://flic.kr/p/z6hK

Break Time. Second Session is a hands-on practical using Potlatch 2 to edit the OpenStreetMap Database http://flic.kr/p/4PFsFb

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