Open in Geo? Opening Geo!
Open Standards/Source/Data

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• Senior GIS Consultant/Data Scientist RealDolmen
• PhD Geology
• Mapping/Modeling shallow water tables and soils
• Open Source GIS Fanboy/Dev
• President OSGeo Belgium
• SAGA GIS
• Debian GIS/Ubuntu GIS
• OSGeo Live Project steering committe
• OSGeoLive is a GNU/Linux distribution containing more than 60 of the best open source
geospatial applications

OSGeo.be

My Talk
• Open Geo Data
• Open Geo Standards and Services
• Open Source
• Organisations behind Open Geo

Open Geo Data
• Openstreetmap

Open Geo Data
• Openstreetmap
• Crowd-sourced map of the
world

Open Geo Data
• Openstreetmap

Open Geo Data
• Openstreetmap
• Large dataset (30Gb)
• Extract part of the data using
Overpass API

Used to respond to disasters
and public health
emergencies like Ebola
Gueckedou March 26, 2014

Humanitarian Open StreetMap
Within 5 days, 244 volunteers mapped 90,000+ buildings
Before After

Open Geo Data
• Openstreetmap
• Humanitarian Open Streetmap
• Satellite data

Open Geo Data
• Openstreetmap
• Humanitarian Open Streetmap
• Satellite data
• Build your own!

Enviromental Data

Enviromental Data

Other governement data
• Grootschalig referentiebestand (talk at 16h)

New Geo data

Open Geo Data
• To be
• Openaerialmap.org
• Opentraffic.io
• Public transport?
• Point clouds

My Talk
• Open Geo Data
• Open Geo Standards and Services
• Open Source
• Organisations behind Open Geo

Open Data/Standards/Source for Geo
• Find the data
• Catalog Service (CSW)
• Show Rendered data
• Web mapping service (WMS)
• Tile mapping service (TMS)
• Data Standards/services
• GML; GeoJSON; CSV on the web
• Web Feature service (vector data)
• Web coverate service (raster data)
• SOS (sensor data)
• Processing Standards
• Don’t fetch the data; send a formula, get the response
• SQL standards, GeoSPARQL
• WPS (web processing service)
• Table Join Service

Find Data
• CSW services, eg pyCSW, Geonetwork

Show Rendered Maps
• WMS: Urbis (Brussels) and GRB
(Flanders)
• Common standard: easy to
combine different sources
independent of their
origin/software

Processing standards

My Talk
• Open Geo Data
• Open Geo Standards and Services
• Open Source
• Organisations behind Open Geo

Software
• OsGeo live DVD
• OSGeoLive is a GNU/Linux distribution containing more
than 60 of the best open source geospatial applications
• OsGeo live DVD has the best documentation (summary +
quickstart)
• http://live.osgeo.org
• OsGeo live DVD
• Desktop GIS
• GIS database
• Web Services
• Web clients

http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/saga_quickstart.html

OSGeo live

Analyse your data
• Desktop GIS (Qgis)
• GIS enabled database
• Select Sum(customers.spending)
from customers JOIN communes
on ST_Contains(communes.geom,
customers.geom);
• Postgresql, MySQL, MongoDB, …
• R (statistical language)
• Python (scripting language)

Geo without a GIS
• Use a common
basemap
• Extract your data
from your
(geo)database

Geo without a GIS
• Use a common basemap
• Extract your data from your
database
• Don’t forget the world is a
sphere

Why has Geo been opening up?
• Large governement clients
• University users
• Organisations
• Open Grass Foundation  OGC
• OSGeo
• Open Streetmap
• Locationtech (Eclipse)

Thanks for your attention!
• http://osgeo.be - http://live.osgeo.org
• Questions/remarks? Johan.vandewauw@realdolmen.com
• 23-25 september