Presentation for Sydney Open Source Developers Conference 2008 covering the range of open source geospatial projects available to the modern programmer!

1. Open Source Geospatial Jody Garnett LISAsoft www.lisasoft.com

2. 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

3. Open Source Geospatial Foundation

4. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Open Source SDI Architecture

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

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7. 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

8. 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

9. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Web Services GeoServer MapServer MapGuide OS TileCache deegree

10. 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...

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Thick Clients JUMP/OpenJUMP GRASS QGIS gvSig uDig

18. 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

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20. 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

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22. 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

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24. 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

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26. 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

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30. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Thin Clients OpenLayers MapBuilder Mapbender

31. 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

32. OpenLayers 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

33. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Mapbender Client/server solution Provides authentication and authorisation functionality and management interfaces Provides Geo-Content Management

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35. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Mobile gvSig GRASS

36. 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Open Source SDI Architecture

39. 500-700 delegates

40. Questions? Jody Garnett [email_address] Image Copyright : Mark Leslie