Open Source Geospatial

Open Source Geospatial Jody Garnett LISAsoft www.lisasoft.com

Context License Describes the limits placed on distribution Open Standards Allows component to “slot in” to your SDI Community and Documentation Influence the cost to adopt Open Development Open to your direction and contributions

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Open Source SDI Architecture

Standards Simple Feature for SQL (SFSQL) SQL Multi Media Extensions (SQL MM) 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Database

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Database

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial PostGIS Advanced geometric indexing Basic topology and curved geometry Widely supported by clients and servers Spatial Extensions for PostgreSQL Released by Refractions Research in 2001 Simple Features for SQL compliant Image Copyright : William Scot

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial MySQL Spatial Extensions Released in MySQL 4.1 in 2003 Supports geometric index on default storage engine Range of analytical functionality Relational operators support BBox only

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Web Services GeoServer MapServer MapGuide OS TileCache deegree

Servers Web Map Server Provides Images (JPEG, PNG, etc...) Web Feature Server (WFS) Provides Vector Data (KML Web Coverage Service (WCS) – raw raster Catalog Service Web (CSW) – discovery Data GML, KML, GeoRSS, etc...

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial GeoServer WMS, WFS-T, WCS compliant Very strong documentation User friendly administrative web interface Fully featured J2EE geospatial data server Started in 2001 by TOPP Flexible security model

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial UMN MapServer High speed map renderer and server Developed by UMN ForNet project in 1997 WMS, WFS, WCS, SOS service Thematic mapping using logical/regex classes Advanced labelling engine

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial MapGuide Open Source Web based geospatial service platform Released by AutoDesk in 2005 Includes Fusion development framework Highly scalable design Connection-oriented, role-based security

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial deegree web services Most comprehensive implementation of OGC standards in an open source framework Extremely modular and highly decoupled OGC reference implementation for WMS and WCS WMS, WCS, WFS and security modules

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial GeoNetwork Started in 2003 by FAO Portal/catalogue components of SDI 1.0 Manage and public metadata Supports multiple metadata standards New standard supported by XSLT transform Robust user/group security model

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial TileCache Developed by MetaCarta in 2006 Highly scalable, high speed Can be a dynamic cache, or pre-cached Supports WMS-C and TMS specifications Pluggable rendering backends Pluggable caching mechanisms

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Thick Clients JUMP/OpenJUMP GRASS QGIS gvSig uDig

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial JUMP/OpenJUMP Released by Vivid in 2002 Written as a GUI for data integration algorithms OpenJUMP forked in 2004 Advanced analytical and data integration capabilities available as plugins Memory resident feature processing

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial GRASS Started by the US Army in 1982 as a raster analysis system Now includes vector analysis capabilities Powerful command line interface Input: GDAL, OGR, PostGIS

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial QGIS Quantum GIS Initially a small PostGIS viewer in 2002 Rapidly grew to a fully featured GIS app GPS Integration Print composer Digitising tools Spatial bookmarks

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial gvSig Developed for CIT of Valencia in 2003 Goal of moving the CIT to open source The goals of the tender were: Portability Modularity Open Code License Free Interoperable Subject to Standards

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial uDig U ser-friendly D esktop I nternet G IS Developed by Refractions Research Designed as an internet based client Full streaming rendering and processing Highly extensible plugin architecture Mature feature manipulation tools

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Thin Clients OpenLayers MapBuilder Mapbender

OpenLayers De-facto web mapping library Access any common web service Any browser Java Script Example of: Compitition & Collaboration 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Image Copyright: Luca Galuzzi

OpenLayers 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Mapbender Client/server solution Provides authentication and authorisation functionality and management interfaces Provides Geo-Content Management