Open Source Geospatial Ready for Prime Time Mark Leslie LISAsoft www.lisasoft.com

Open Source Geospatial Foundation “ Created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. Our goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led [geospatial] projects.” 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial http://www.osgeo.org/

Open Geospatial Consortium “… an international industry consortium of 366 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications.” 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial http://www.opengeospatial.org/

Open Source SDI Architecture 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 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Spatial Extensions for PostgreSQL Released by Refractions Research in 2001 Simple Features for SQL compliant Image Copyright : William Scot

Advanced geometric indexing

Basic topology and curved geometry

Widely supported by clients and servers

Released by Refractions Research in 2001

Simple Features for SQL compliant

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

Released in MySQL 4.1 in 2003

Supports geometric index on default storage engine

Range of analytical functionality

Relational operators support BBox only

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

GeoServer

MapServer

MapGuide OS

TileCache

deegree

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

WMS, WFS-T, WCS compliant

Very strong documentation

User friendly administrative web interface

Started in 2001 by TOPP

Flexible security model

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

Developed by UMN ForNet project in 1997

WMS, WFS, WCS, SOS service

Thematic mapping using logical/regex classes

Advanced labelling engine

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

Released by AutoDesk in 2005

Includes Fusion development framework

Highly scalable design

Connection-oriented, role-based security

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JUMP/OpenJUMP

GRASS

QGIS

gvSig

uDig

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

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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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

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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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

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

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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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

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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Thin Clients OpenLayers MapBuilder Mapbender 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

OpenLayers

MapBuilder

Mapbender

OpenLayers De-facto web mapping library Access any common web service 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial Run in any* browser Requires JS know-how Image Copyright: Luca Galuzzi

De-facto web mapping library

Access any common web service

Run in any* browser

Requires JS know-how

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

Client/server solution

Provides authentication and authorisation functionality and management interfaces

Provides Geo-Content Management

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Mobile gvSig GRASS 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

gvSig

GRASS

Open Source SDI Architecture 14 March 2008 Open Source Geospatial

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