This document discusses open geospatial data and engaging citizens in spatial data infrastructures (SDI). It defines open data and open geospatial data. It notes that while grassroots communities in Taiwan are active in open data, there is a lack of high-level policies. The document advocates for governments to act as platforms rather than vendors of data. It outlines different funding models and proposes a 4P approach (Policy, Principle, Process, Price) for open geospatial data. It highlights examples of engaging citizens from other countries and proposes actions Taiwan could take to open data and involve citizens in its SDI.

1. Dongpo Deng
Open Up Geospatial Data
for Looping Citizens in
SDI
Institute of Information Science!
Academia Sinica, Taiwan!
&!
Faculty of Geo-Information Science
and Earth Observation (ITC), !
University of Twente, !
the Netherlands

2. Open Data
❖ Data without technical and legal restrictions
Courtesy from http://www.wired.co.uk/news/silicon-europe?page=14

3. Open Geo-Data
❖ Technical openness!
❖ Non-proprietary data formats, e.g., GML, KML!
❖ Standardized portals for circulating data, e.g., WMTS!
❖ Legal openness!
❖ Public domain!
❖ cannot hold copyright by laws, e.g., geo data of US Federal !
❖ expired copyright, e.g., Taiwan Bao Maps (over 100 years ago)!
❖ not subject to copyright, e.g., drawing maps (facts) is no creativity!
❖ Open Access!
❖ copyrighted, but use open licenses, e.g., CC, ODbL

4. Open Geo-Data in Taiwan
❖ Grassroots communities are energetic, e.g., OSM Taiwan,
g0v,…!
❖ Lack of high-level policies for Open (Geo-) Data
development!
❖ Some concepts need to be addressed: !
❖ Data published on the Web != Open Data!
❖ Open GIS != Open Geospatial Data!
❖ Pay too much attention on economic values of open data

5. A government is the biggest geo-data owner

6. Government As A Platform, Not A Vending Machine
From Gov 2.0 Expo 2010: Tim O'Reilly, "Government as a Platform for Greatness"

7. Government As A Platform, Not A Vending Machine

8. Government As A Platform, Not A Vending Machine
http://gobblin.se/u/trc/m/vending-machine-odi-e6c3/

9. Regulations of Charging for Geo-Data in Taiwan
Charges and Fees
Act!
Article 10
Land Surveying and
Mapping Act!
Article 54
Standard Fee for
Data of Land
Survey and Mapping
Land Use Maps and Data
Base Maps and
Topographic Maps
Aerial Photo and Remote
Sensing Images
Cadastre Maps
CommonVersion
Electronic Maps
Land Surveying and
Mapping Integrated Data
e-GPS Service

10. Different funding models for PSI
US Internal
Revenue Service,
IRS
Data
producing
agency
Users and
other agencies
EU treasury and
legislation
Data
producing
agency
Other
agencies
Users
Congress Wealth/jobs!
=taxes
Open data
Europe: data users pay for data
Peter Weiss, 2004. Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Public Sector
Information Policies and their Economic Impacts, Open Access and
the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science, pp.
69-73

11. 4Ps for Open Geo-Data
Policy
Principle
Process
Price
Policy
Principle
Process
Price

12. Toward next generation of SDI
Adapted from Rajabifard et al. (2006) and Budhathoki et al., (2008)
Data volume

13. OSM JP and GSI
http://www.slideshare.net/mapconcierge/20131109-sot-mtaiwa

14. USGS National Map Corps
http://nationalmap.gov/TheNationalMapCorps/index.html
Use OpenStreetMap technologies for collaboratively editing National Map

15. How about Taiwan?
❖ NGIS 2020 plan!
❖ Add policies
of Open
Geospatial
Data?!
❖ Add action
plans of
engagement
with citizens?!
❖ Open up
several geo-
data?
(2014) -

16. Citizens in the loop of open data
A citizen science project: Reptile Road Mortality
https://www.facebook.com/groups/roadkilled/

17. A post on the Facebook group Reptile Road Mortality
Observation Provider:
Chuang Yu Ta
Photo:
A proof of occurrence
Observation date:
2013/12/4
Species Identifier:
Joyce Chen
Species name:
(Melogale moschata)
Identification Date:
Dec. 4, 2013
Post
section
Comment
section
Thread
Observation location:
Geoname:
(Sindian)
Road kilometre:
9 16.3K
(Province Road No.9,
16.3 kilometer)
Lat:24.95149
Lon:121.57520
Lat:151m

18. Data growth of Reptile Road Mortality

19. Published open data on the web
http://roadkill.tw

20. Table view of the data

21. Gallery view of the data

22. Data view as Catalogue of Life

23. Map view of the data

24. Release source codes
https://github.com/roadkilltaiwan

25. Concluding Remarks
❖ Open geospatial data is cornerstone for looping citizen
in SDI!
❖ Action plans for engaging with citizens are curial for
citizen engagement of SDI!
❖ Make a open ecosystem relied on data, tools, services
and policies