Drupal and the GeoSpatial Web

Drupal and the Geospatial Web Jeff Miccolis @miccolis Development Seed Andrew Turner @ajturner FortiusOne - GeoCommons

Jeff Miccolis @miccolis Development Seed Andrew Turner @ajturner FortiusOne - GeoCommons

Drupal... @miccolis photourl

Why maps?

Drupal CMS Gmap module Module Google maps Display Google‘s mapdata Data

Drupal CMS Custom module Module Custom php script Display Young’s drawing Data

Drupal CMS Custom Module mapnik Display Map data somebody Data had...

mapnik? • “Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps. “ • http://mapnik.org/

We’ve got problems. • Language • History • Usage • Privacy • Look

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_USA_VA.svg

http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/vonbergendotnet/2496411369/

Drupal CMS ? Module Cloudmade Display Open Street Maps Data

We’ve got options. • CMS • Modules • Display • Data

kidding :)

Drupal CMS Gmap module Module Google maps Display Google’s mapdata Data

Drupal CMS Mapstraction module Module Google maps Display Google’s mapdata Data

mapstraction? • “Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible.” • Support for eleven mapping providers. • http://www.mapstraction.com/ • http://drupal.org/project/mapstraction

Drupal CMS Mapstraction module Module Cloudmade Display Open Street Maps Data

Drupal CMS Mapstraction module Module Free Earth Display Satellite imagery Data

Drupal CMS Nice map module Module NASA Display Satellite imagery Data

Nice map? • “Nice Map is a WMS client for Drupal.” • http://drupal.org/project/nicemap

WMS? • “An Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service (WMS) produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information.” • http://www.opengeospatial.org/

Drupal CMS Nice map module Module Mapnik Display Data Whatever I can get my hands on!

Was he really kidding about Drupal?

cut to Andrew...

...and the Geospatial Web @ajturner photourl

What is this Geospatial Web?

The Web

The Drupal Web http://www.aharef.info

The Geospatial Web

unread POI’s 1000+

Life Digitized

OK - so how is the Geospatial Web different?

Formats http://ﬂickr.com/photos/wolfsoul/1352149315

Create Exif GeoRSS KML GPX Geocoding Publish GeoRSS KML Microformats MachineTags Aggregate GML KML GeoRSS WFS GeoJSON Consume

! Standards Organizations

NOAA WMS

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/maps/cgi-bin/public/ms/ poster?LAYERS=nighttime_lights_f152003 &SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1 &REQUEST=GetMap &STYLES=&EXCEPTIONS=application %2Fvnd.ogc.se_inimage &FORMAT=image%2Fjpeg &SRS=EPSG%3A4326 &BBOX=53.81333333,-90.000,170.7208,26.906666&WIDT H=256&HEIGHT=256 WMS Request

Where’s my vector data? http://code.ﬂickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

http://giswebservices.massgis.state.ma.us/geoserver/wfs? request=getfeature&version=1.0.0&service=wfs&propertyna me=TOWN,POP2000&typename=massgis:GISDATA.TOWN S_POLYM&ﬁlter=%3CFilter+xmlns=%22http:// www.opengis.net/ogc%22%3E%3CPropertyIsGreaterThan %3E%3CPropertyName%3EPOP2000%3C/PropertyName %3E%3CLiteral%3E100000%3C/Literal%3E%3C/ PropertyIsGreaterThan%3E%3C/Filter%3E WFS Request

<?xml version=quot;1.0quot; encoding=quot;UTF-8quot;?> <wfs:FeatureCollection xmlns:wfs=quot;http://www.opengis.net/wfsquot; xmlns:gml=quot;http://www.opengis.net/gmlquot; xmlns:massgis=quot;http://massgis.state.ma.us/featuretypequot; xmlns:xsi=quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instancequot; xsi:schemaLocation=quot;http://massgis.state.ma.us/featuretype http://giswebservices.massgis.state.ma.us/ geoserver/wfs/DescribeFeatureType?typeName=massgis:GISDATA.TOWNS_POLYM http://www.opengis.net/wfs http:// giswebservices.massgis.state.ma.us/geoserver/schemas/wfs/1.0.0/WFS-basic.xsdquot;> <gml:boundedBy> <gml:Box srsName=quot;http://www.opengis.net/gml/srs/epsg.xml#26986quot;> <gml:coordinates xmlns:gml=quot;http://www.opengis.net/gmlquot; decimal=quot;.quot; cs=quot;,quot; ts=quot; quot; >107210.18360951201,868673.000913621 252005.57369636302,935123.120655508</gml:coordinates> </gml:Box> </gml:boundedBy> </wfs:FeatureCollection> WFS GML Response

Does it really have to be that hard? http://code.ﬂickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

GeoRSS http://georss.org

+ GeoRSS http://georss.org

<georss:point> + 45.256 -71.92 </georss:point> GeoRSS http://georss.org

USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/

FriendFeed

KML http://code.google.com/apis/kml/ documentation/kmlreference.html photourl

{ quot;typequot;: quot;Pointquot;, quot;coordinatesquot;: [100.0, 0.0] } GeoJSON

• FeedAPI • KML Module • GeoRSS Module • NiceMap (WMS) • Atom Drupal Modules FeedAPI

But how do I query data? http://code.ﬂickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

OpenSearch

http://example.com/search ?keyword={searchTerms} &limit={count?} &page={startPage?} required optional? OpenSearch Template

http://geo.example.com/search.atom? keyword={searchTerms} &location={geo:locationString?} &lat={geo:lat?}&lon={geo:lon?}&distance={geo:radius?} &bbox={geo:box?} OpenSearch-Geo

Where is the GeoREST? http://code.ﬂickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

KML + GeoRSS+HTML http://highearthorbit.com/a-proposal-georss-kml

AtomPub-Geo

Create Exif GeoRSS KML GPX Geocoding Publish GeoRSS KML Microformats MachineTags Aggregate GML KML GeoRSS WFS GeoJSON Consume

Data http://ﬂickr.com/photos/beija-ﬂor/1217587004

Flickr Export

Google Picasa + Panoramio

GeoWeb2.0

What else is there besides blog posts?

Real-Time Data

User-Generated Content http://nowpublic.com/tag/ DrupalCon/scan

Local Governments http://data.octo.dc.gov

National Governments http://www.recovery.gov/

Inter-Government http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Global NGO http://ungiwg.org

Registries http://geonetwork.org

Repositories http://geocommons.com & Aggregators

But I’m already using GoogleMaps.

GoogleMaps http://maps.google.com

Design

Usability

Data Ownership and Access

Data Coverage and Quality

OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

OSM in Flickr

OpenAerialMap http://openaerialmap.org

ODbL http://www.opendatacommons.org/ Open Database License

Community http://ﬂickr.com/photos/wwworks/1384952210

http://ﬂickr.com/photos/x180/2494170626/ “Geowankers” yes, you heard me correctly

OSGeo http://osgeo.org

OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

Mapping Parties

Mappers Anonymous

Exponential Growth http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats

#osgeo Geo-Web-Rest #mapnik http://groups.google.com/group/ geo-web-rest #osm GeoRSS #openlayers http://georss.org #et al. GeoJSON http://geojson.org geowanking http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking Geo Communities

And why is this important to me? http://ﬂickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/2326448445

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A Drupal Example

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