Open GeoData, Open GeoTools: An Introduction

Open GeoData, Open Geo Tools: An Introduction Richard Cantwell Senior GIS Consultant www.gamma.ie [email_address] Personal Blog: www.geographic.ie Personal Twitter: @GeoGraphicIE

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

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

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/

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

Open Data http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/15/crime-maps-uk

Privacy Concerns http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker

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

Pre rendered tiles AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Open API's Rapid development Key Innovations http://berglondon.com/projects/hat/

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

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

Geonames http://www.geonames.org/

GeoNames Visualised http://www.datapointed.net/2011/01/happy-new-year/

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

CORINE Landcover http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/corineimport.html

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

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

Mashup of Transport and Local Authority Data http://election.hittheroad.ie/

Realtime Public Transport Information http://www.rtpi.ie/

Isochrone Mapping – Public Transport in London http://www.mapnificent.net/london/

Building blocks being put in place http://opendata.ie/

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

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

Adding approx 90,000km of road per week http://www.beyonav.com/articles/geo-analytics-on-openstreetmap-road-data/1

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

Services & Capabilities Expanding http://www.osm-wms.de

Growing List of Related Projects http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services http://osmtools.de/osmlinks/

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

Vector Data - Cartography http://opencyclemap.org

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

OpenIrishMap http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/

Many 'Hidden' Data Layers http://www.itoworld.com/product/data/ito_map/main

Fully Open Tagging – not without it's critics http://www.twitter.com/edparsons

OSM has it's (comedic) defenders... http://www.twitter.com/FakeSteveC

Tag checking infrastructure http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Ireland/En/index.html

A Repository for Open GeoData http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/corineimport.html

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

Pakistan OSM 3 rd May 2011 http://osm.org/go/zyBDGh@D-

The future of commercial online mapping? http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/04/updates-to-google-maps-apigoogle-earth.html

The future of commercial online mapping? Logorama: vimeo.com/10149605

The future of commercial online mapping? http://www.maps.google.ie

Mainstream Adoption of OpenStreetMap http://open.mapquest.ie

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

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

Contributing to OpenStreetMap http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide

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

Contributing to OpenStreetMap http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ

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

The 'Geo-Stack' http://workshops.opengeo.org/stack-intro/

An Open Source 'Geo-Stack' http://workshops.opengeo.org/stack-intro/

Software, Data and Workshops available online http://workshops.opengeo.org/stack-intro/

QGIS Website http://www.qgis.org

QGIS Interface

Commercial Software (ArcGIS) Interface

QGIS <> WMS Integration

QGIS <> WMS <> Local Datastore Integration

QGIS <> PostGIS Integration

QGIS Python Plugins May 2011: 152 Plugins listed

PostGIS Website http://postgis.refractions.net/

PGAdmin Database Management Tool http://www.pgadmin.org/

QGIS - PostGIS Manager Plugin QGIS Contributed Plugin repository / http://mapserver.sk/~wonder/

Open Source 'Geo-Stack' http://workshops.opengeo.org/stack-intro/

GeoServer Website http://geoserver.org/

WFS / WMS / WCS http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards

GeoServer – Easily configured via web interface Available at http://localhost:8080/geoserver/web/

Mapnik - Tile Creation tool http://mapnik.org

Mapnik – OSM XML Stylesheet

Mapnik – OSM XML Stylesheet – Frequent Revisions http:/trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/mapnik/osm.xml

Mapnik – Generate Image

Mapnik – Generated Image

Mapnik – Tile Creation

Level 15 Ireland, 435km x 365km = 288,000 tiles = 1.25GB Mapnik – Tile Creation

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Disk_Usage (52 TB total) OSM – Tile Usage

Open Source 'Geo-Stack' http://workshops.opengeo.org/stack-intro/

http://www.openlayers.org OpenLayers

OpenLayers – Simple Google Map

OpenLayers – Google Map with Local GeoServer WMS Layers

OpenLayers – Local & Remote Tiles, WMS Layers

OpenLayers – Local Tiles & WMS Layers

http://beta.facilmap.org OpenLayers – Multiple sources

http://live.osgeo.org USB Stick / VM Image download

http://www.tiledrawer.com Tile Drawer – Cloud based rendering

Tile Drawer – Cloud based rendering

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org DataScienceToolkit – VM Download

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/public/tour/index.html Google Fusion Tables

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home -> Public Tables Google Fusion Tables

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/31/deprivation-map-indices-multiple Google Fusion Tables

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S188902dEad Google Fusion Tables

http://www.geocommons.com GeoCommons

Open GeoData - Online Reading opengeodata.org opendata.ie www.vicchi.org povesham.wordpress.com www.spatiallyadjusted.com www.edparsons.com geothought.blogspot.com www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/giscussions oliverobrien.co.uk weait.com mike.teczno.com www.geographic.ie http://flic.kr/p/9CUvJ3

Open GeoTools - Online Sources osgeo.org live.osgeo.org opengeo.org qgis.org postgis.refractions.net geoserver.org mapnik.org openlayers.org tiledrawer.com google.com/fusiontables geocommons.com stamen.com mapbox.com http://flic.kr/p/7EbFbv

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