1. Big
Data
at
the
Heart
of
Geospa1al
Innova1on
(and
Loca1onTech)
Marc
Vloemans
Director
Ecosystems
Eclipse
Founda1on-­‐Loca1onTech
FOSS4G
2016,
Boston

2. Eclipse
Founda1on
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• One
of
the
top
open
source
founda1ons
• Organiza1onal
and
individual
members
• Collabora1ng
on
innova1ve
technology
• >330
open
source
projects
And
we
are
growing
towards
• ‘A
community
of
communi1es’
• Focus
on
industry
sectors
and
markets
• Industry
Working
Groups

3. Eclipse
Founda1on
and
Loca1onTech
• Eclipse
Industry
Working
Groups
(IWG)
• collaborate
and
innovate
on
the
crea1on
of
commercially
friendly
technology,
specifica1ons
and
best
prac1ces
for
a
specific
industry
or
market.
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4. What
we
do
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5. Loca1onTech
• Partner
of,
among
others
OGC,
OSGeo
(FOSS4GNA,
projects,
sponsoring)
• More
than
just
a
community
of
developers
• An
ecosystem
of
service
suppliers,
projects
and
end-­‐
user
organiza1ons
• Collabora1ve
market
development
for
OS
geospa1al
• Commercially
friendly
temporal-­‐spa1al
aware
soware
• Special
focus
on
Big
Geospa1al
Data
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6. Focus
• Mission
• To
be
the
interna1onal
pla]orm
for
sustainable
technical
and
commercial
collabora1on
for
open
geospa1al
• Focus
• Commercial
and
technical
value
add
to
members
• Diversity
of
end-­‐users
and
partnerships
• Big
Geospa1al
Data
tools
and
applica1ons
• Strategic
execu1on
• Recruit
projects
for
por]olio
gaps
(e.g.
3D,
Geocoder)
• Create
projects
in
house
(JTS2,
RPE)
• Increase
and
broaden
the
user-­‐base
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7. The
Loca1onTech
Working
Group
Steering
Commi,ee
Member
Par1cipa1ng
Member
Guest
(Academic)
Member
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8. The
future
is
Big
Geospa1al
Data
• Sensors,
satellites
and
social
networking
• 20%
growth
rate
per
year
• The
80-­‐20
rule
• The
geospa1al
component
• Ac1onable
intelligence
• monitor,
manage,
interpret,
edit
• The
limits
of
open
spa1al
components
and
tools
• Volume,
velocity,
variability
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9. Loca1onTech
GeoMesa
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• A
collec1on
of
libraries
and
modules
which
can
be
used
to
solve
Big
Geospa1al
Data
challenges.
• Management
of
billions
to
trillions
of
vector
data
• Well
suited
for
streaming
vector
data
• Spark
SQL
support
• Improved
support
for
HBase
and
Cassandra
backends
• New
Cloud
Storage
support
(S3,
Azure
Blobstore,
etc)

10. Loca1onTech
GeoWave
• A
soware
library
connec1ng
scalability
of
distributed
compu1ng
frameworks
and
key-­‐value
stores
with
modern
geospa1al
soware
to
store,
retrieve
and
analyze
big
geospa1al
datasets.
• Scalabel
design
• Interac1ve
1me
and/or
loca1on
specific
queries
• Mul1-­‐dimensional
indexing
to
ao.
Accumulo,
HBase,
BigTable
• GeoServer
plugin
to
share
and
visualize
geospa1al
data
in
a
GeoWave
datastore
via
OGC
standard
services
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11. Loca1onTech
GeoTrellis
• A
framework
to
process
large
and
small
data
sets
with
low
latency
by
distribu1ng
the
computa1on
across
mul1ple
threads,
cores,
CPUs
and
machines.
• ability
to
rapidly
process
and
distribute
processing
of
raster
data
• data
import
and
conversion
tools
for
the
ARG
data
structure
• designed
to
help
create
simple,
standard
REST
services
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12. Loca1onTech
GeoGig
• A
Distributed
Version
Control
System
specially
designed
to
handle
geospa1al
data
efficiently.
• inspira1on
from
the
source
code
versioning
system
Git
• import
raw
geospa1al
data
(currently
from
Shapefiles,
PostGIS,
MS
SQLServer,
or
Spa1aLite)
in
to
a
repository
• every
change
to
the
data
is
tracked
• versioning,
branched
into
sandboxed
areas,
merged
back
and
pushed
to
remote
repositories.
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13. May
2018
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14. More
informa1on
online
• Online
• Website;
www.loca1ontech.org
• Twiier;
@Loca1onTech
• Mailinglists;
see
website
• LinkedIn;
hips://www.linkedin.com/groups/4503139
• Mail
• Thea.Aldrich@eclipse-­‐founda1on.org
(Dev.
Advocate)
• Marc.Vloemans@eclipse-­‐founda1on.org
(Dev.
Ecosystem)
• Paul.white@eclipse-­‐founda1on.org
(Member
Services)
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2017