Open Geodata, GIS Ireland 2010

Lowering Data Acquisition Costs and Raising Innovation – Leveraging Public Domain and Volunteered Geographic Information Richard Cantwell www.geographic.ie richard@geographic.ie twitter.com/GeoGraphicIE

I Love Open Data, and here's why you should too.. Richard Cantwell www.geographic.ie richard@geographic.ie twitter.com/GeoGraphicIE

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

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

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

New Insights

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Data vs API

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/

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