This document summarizes a presentation on implementing hackable user-driven geographic information (GI) services within spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). It discusses lessons learned from services like Google Maps, including their use of publicly available geospatial data. The presentation proposes developing open standards-compliant application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow non-experts to build customized GI services using SDI data. Requirements for such APIs are outlined, and examples from Italian regions are provided. Standards that could be implemented are listed.
This document describes ACR Grupo, a construction company in Navarra, Spain. It discusses ACR Grupo's transition to using Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology. Some key points:
- ACR Grupo has built over 18,000 housing units, as well as hotels, offices, and industrial/medical facilities.
- The company selected Allplan as its BIM platform in 2009 due to prior experience with the software and its ability to automatically generate reliable measurements from BIM models.
- Using BIM allows ACR Grupo to better understand projects and integrate architectural designs with structural modeling, facility planning, budgeting, energy analysis, and sustainability protocols.
- BIM
Workshop on OGC Compliance at GEOBUIZ Summit 2016Luis Bermudez
Standards play an important role in ensuring quality solutions for governments and businesses around the world. However did you know that when it comes to OGC standards you can request certified compliance for those solutions? An example where this used is the standards recommended by the Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Standards Working Group in the United States, which includes standards developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The OGC has certified hundreds of products and maintains an online database with detailed information about the products that implement and comply with OGC standards.
The workshop will provide resources and tools that are required to understand the importance and verification of OGC Compliance. Topics include:
- Benefits of acquiring OGC compliant products, as opposed to products that implement OGC standards but have not been certified as being OGC compliant
- Guidance regarding language to use in specifying requirements for OGC compliant products in software acquisition (procurement) documents
- Verification process to access that a product is compliant
- Overview of the testing and compliance procedure
- Testing community profiles
Open standards: A success factor for smart citiesIngo Simonis
Smart Cities and the role of geospatial standards to optimize data exchange and service interoperability across data and service providers. Keynote given at AGIT 2015
Innovation in Geospatial Technology and StandardsGeorge Percivall
All predictions are wrong; some are useful. This presentation offers a slate of geospatial trends developed in discussion with the OGC Board of Directors and expanded in an OGC blog series. These geospatial technology issues were developed by reviewing over 200 articles from geospatial publications as well as from information technology journals (IEEE, ACM, etc.).
These "Ripe Issues" of geospatial technology identify areas where further development of open standards can lead to great benefit:
* The Power of Location
* Internet of Things
* Mobile Development
* Indoor Frontier
* Cartographers of the future
* Big Processing of GeoData
* Smart Cities
The OGC is an international consortium where members participate in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC has a history of developing anticipatory standards. OGC is a leader in achieving a consensus balanced with innovation where OGC members actively designing the standard while implementing running software. In the role of OGC Chief Engineer, George Percivall identifies technology and market trends relevant to open standards development.
This talk opened the geospatial track of the Apache Big Data conference. The geospatial track aimed to increase the benefits of implementing open source consistent with open geospatial standards.
After an introduction of the geospatial track this talk focused on these topics:
- Applications of Big Geo Data
- Geospatial Open Standards
- Big Geo Use Cases
- Open Source and Open Standards.
This document summarizes George Percivall's presentation on geospatial and geomatics trends at the 2013 TECTERRA Geomatics Showcase. Some of the key trends discussed include the power of location data and analytics, the rise of the Internet of Things and associated opportunities for geospatial processing and modeling, the mobile-first development landscape and standards like GeoPackage, opportunities in indoor mapping and modeling with IndoorGML, and advances in crowdsourced mapping, semantics, big data processing, and smart city applications. OGC standards play an important role in many of these emerging areas to support interoperability.
This document describes ACR Grupo, a construction company in Navarra, Spain. It discusses ACR Grupo's transition to using Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology. Some key points:
- ACR Grupo has built over 18,000 housing units, as well as hotels, offices, and industrial/medical facilities.
- The company selected Allplan as its BIM platform in 2009 due to prior experience with the software and its ability to automatically generate reliable measurements from BIM models.
- Using BIM allows ACR Grupo to better understand projects and integrate architectural designs with structural modeling, facility planning, budgeting, energy analysis, and sustainability protocols.
- BIM
Workshop on OGC Compliance at GEOBUIZ Summit 2016Luis Bermudez
Standards play an important role in ensuring quality solutions for governments and businesses around the world. However did you know that when it comes to OGC standards you can request certified compliance for those solutions? An example where this used is the standards recommended by the Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Standards Working Group in the United States, which includes standards developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The OGC has certified hundreds of products and maintains an online database with detailed information about the products that implement and comply with OGC standards.
The workshop will provide resources and tools that are required to understand the importance and verification of OGC Compliance. Topics include:
- Benefits of acquiring OGC compliant products, as opposed to products that implement OGC standards but have not been certified as being OGC compliant
- Guidance regarding language to use in specifying requirements for OGC compliant products in software acquisition (procurement) documents
- Verification process to access that a product is compliant
- Overview of the testing and compliance procedure
- Testing community profiles
Open standards: A success factor for smart citiesIngo Simonis
Smart Cities and the role of geospatial standards to optimize data exchange and service interoperability across data and service providers. Keynote given at AGIT 2015
Innovation in Geospatial Technology and StandardsGeorge Percivall
All predictions are wrong; some are useful. This presentation offers a slate of geospatial trends developed in discussion with the OGC Board of Directors and expanded in an OGC blog series. These geospatial technology issues were developed by reviewing over 200 articles from geospatial publications as well as from information technology journals (IEEE, ACM, etc.).
These "Ripe Issues" of geospatial technology identify areas where further development of open standards can lead to great benefit:
* The Power of Location
* Internet of Things
* Mobile Development
* Indoor Frontier
* Cartographers of the future
* Big Processing of GeoData
* Smart Cities
The OGC is an international consortium where members participate in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC has a history of developing anticipatory standards. OGC is a leader in achieving a consensus balanced with innovation where OGC members actively designing the standard while implementing running software. In the role of OGC Chief Engineer, George Percivall identifies technology and market trends relevant to open standards development.
This talk opened the geospatial track of the Apache Big Data conference. The geospatial track aimed to increase the benefits of implementing open source consistent with open geospatial standards.
After an introduction of the geospatial track this talk focused on these topics:
- Applications of Big Geo Data
- Geospatial Open Standards
- Big Geo Use Cases
- Open Source and Open Standards.
This document summarizes George Percivall's presentation on geospatial and geomatics trends at the 2013 TECTERRA Geomatics Showcase. Some of the key trends discussed include the power of location data and analytics, the rise of the Internet of Things and associated opportunities for geospatial processing and modeling, the mobile-first development landscape and standards like GeoPackage, opportunities in indoor mapping and modeling with IndoorGML, and advances in crowdsourced mapping, semantics, big data processing, and smart city applications. OGC standards play an important role in many of these emerging areas to support interoperability.
IV. Jornadas Sig Libre: The State of OSGeo and the Global SDIArnulf Christl
The current State of OSGeo: Overview of the established OSGeo software products, incubating projects, local chapter and conference activities and some politics. And as always: What is different about software in general.
gvSIG Mobile as a client of SDI,OSGIS 2009.Nottinghamadelrey
gvSIG Mobile is a mobile GIS client developed under the gvSIG project as a framework for mobile devices. It allows users to view and edit geospatial data in the field. The presentation described the history and capabilities of gvSIG Mobile, including its use of Java and support for vector data, raster data, and OGC web services. Future plans for gvSIG Mobile include support for additional format types and direct connections to spatial databases and sensor networks.
Euskaltel has been continuously upgrading its GIS system since 1998 to improve functionality and integration with other systems. Key milestones include migrating to ArcGIS 8.1 in 2002 to use SQL Server and address performance issues, integrating with a new .NET CRM system in 2004-2005, and a major migration to ArcGIS 9.2 and ArcGIS Server in 2008. The GIS now supports various telecommunications network management and analysis tasks but continued improvements are needed, such as a dedicated telecommunications management solution and faster web viewer.
OGC Update for State of Geospatial Tech at T-RexGeorge Percivall
An update on OGC activities in three time horizons: Now, Next and After Next. Finishing with how to keep updated on OGC activities.
Now
Recently approved OGC standards
Implementation of approved standards
Next
Standards Program
Innovation Program
After Next
Tech Forecast
How to keep in touch
The document provides an overview of the Orfeo Toolbox (OTB), an open-source library for processing remote sensing imagery. It discusses the history and goals of OTB, how it was developed by leveraging existing open-source libraries, and its growing user community. It also describes how OTB integrates with GIS software like QGIS through plugins that allow processing remote sensing data within a GIS environment.
03 ESNC2014 special prize_european gnss agency_gsaKathrinSturm
ESNC 2014 Presentation at the International Kick off in Rotterdam on 15 April
Presentation of the GSA Special Prize that is organised by the European GNSS Agency
Are you the next European GNSS application entrepreneur? The European GNSS Agency (GSA), a European Union agency, works with the European Commission on a range of activities aimed at helping European entrepreneurs and businesses take commercial advantage of European GNSS (EGNOS and Galileo). The GSA Special Prize rewards the year's most promising application idea for European GNSS. This year's winner will have the opportunity to advance their idea at a suitable incubation centre of their choice within the EU-27 for six months, with an additional six months possible based on an interim evaluation.
Sign up from 1 April - 30 June at www.esnc.eu
The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) is an international contest that awards the best services, products, or business innovations using satellite navigation in everyday life. Since 2004, ESNC’s mission has been to spur on development of market-driven applications based on satellite navigation technologies, including EGNOS and Galileo. Within the past nine years more than 6,000 developers took part in the ESNC.
This year’s prize pool is worth EUR 1 million including cash, business incubation, coaching, patent consulting, prototyping and marketing support, access to customers and user communities, and publicity in the world’s leading satellite navigation network. Winners of the 25 regional and 7 special prizes will be in the running for the grand prize of EUR 20,000 and six months incubation in a regional centre of choice.
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) enable countless applications here on Earth. Submissions are welcome in any relevant application field, including: Location Based Services, Smart Moving, Safety & Security,Navigation, Health, Energy, Augmented Reality, Gaming, Sports & Tracking, Public & Social Services, Agriculture and many more.
The document compares several mobile GIS applications including both proprietary and open source options. It discusses platforms, features, and performance based on tests of common tasks. While open source applications have potential and are comparable to ArcPad in many ways, they still need more documentation, customization options, and support for professional sensors to be as full featured. New devices, interactions, and technologies also provide opportunities for mobile GIS applications.
Building earth observation applications with NextGEOSS - webinarterradue
Training taster for the NextGEOSS Workshop to be held in Geneva on September 11th, 2018.
A review of the NextGEOSS components and services available to partners for the integration of their applications on the NextGEOSS Platform.
Announcement: https://nextgeoss.eu/second-nextgeoss-training/
1. ArcCatalog allows you to organize and manage spatial data, create and manage geodatabases, and document data with metadata.
2. ArcMap is used for mapping, editing, and map-based analysis tasks. You can view, query, and symbolize data in ArcMap.
3. ArcToolbox provides geoprocessing tools for data conversion and analysis tasks.
Euskaltel has undergone several migrations of its GIS software over time in order to improve performance, meet changing requirements, and support new technologies. The document outlines Euskaltel's initial implementation of ArcView 3.1 in 1998 and subsequent migrations to ArcGIS 8.1 in 2002, ArcGIS 8.3 in 2005, and ArcGIS 9.2 in 2008 to take advantage of new capabilities and address issues with the prior systems. Each migration enhanced Euskaltel's ability to manage its telecommunications networks and support new projects.
1) The document provides an introduction to open source GIS presented by Shin Sanghee to Kazakhstan delegates. It covers topics such as what is open source software, benefits of open source GIS, examples of open source GIS projects and organizations like OSGeo.
2) Key open source GIS projects and components discussed include PostGIS, GeoServer, MapServer, QGIS and OpenLayers. Examples are given of countries adopting open source GIS for national spatial data infrastructure.
3) The OSGeo Foundation aims to support collaborative development of open source geospatial software and promote its use through activities like incubation of projects and providing resources.
Jean-Luc Bordessoule is a senior C++ and Qt programmer with over 25 years of experience developing commercial software projects. He has significant experience in software architecture, refactoring, GUIs, C++, and scientific visualization. His career objective is to serve as a project leader for scientific and visualization developments. Previously, he worked as the main programmer refactoring a velocity analysis product at CGG, contributing to products like reservoir engineering. He also has experience developing 3D visualizers and maintaining interpretation software. His technical skills include C++, Qt, Linux, Windows, algorithms, multi-threading, GUIs, graphics libraries, and agile methodologies.
Providing New Geographic Solutions to the Company Esri
The document summarizes the IT department's experience with ESRI GIS software over time at Canal de Isabel II, including:
1) Early GIS used custom AutoCAD-based software which was difficult to maintain and had poor performance.
2) ArcGIS Desktop provided more powerful tools but custom development led to high upgrade costs. The version control system was also complex.
3) Initial ArcIMS web mapping had limited functionality and slow performance.
4) Later versions of ArcGIS Server improved web mapping capabilities and speed through cached map services.
5) Mobility projects were disrupted when Microsoft changed the Windows Mobile platform, requiring a shift to other mobile platforms supported by ESRI.
This document summarizes a presentation given at the Geospatial World Forum 2016 about the ENERGIC-OD project. The ENERGIC-OD project aims to build a unified architecture for accessing geospatial data across Europe by developing virtual hubs that ensure compliance with INSPIRE and Copernicus standards. It brings together 15 partners from 6 European nations. The presentation included an introduction to the project, a group exercise where participants discussed geospatial data needs, limitations, and opportunities, and a planned discussion of the exercise results. The overall goal of the project is to improve interoperability, stimulate innovation and business using open geospatial data.
This document provides a status update and overview of projects funded by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) Fundamental Elements program. It summarizes three ongoing projects in 2015 related to SBAS receiver development for aviation, and E-GNSS engine development for road transportation applications. It also outlines seven planned projects for 2016 related to areas like ARAIM receiver development, maritime receivers, MEOSAR beacon prototyping, and commercial service user terminals. The document concludes by advertising two open calls for proposals on high-end professional receivers and low-end mass market core technology development.
Raster Data In GeoServer And GeoTools: Achievements, Issues And Future Develo...GeoSolutions
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the developments during last years in raster data support in GeoTools and GeoServer, and also to introduce and discuss future development directions.
IV. Jornadas Sig Libre: The State of OSGeo and the Global SDIArnulf Christl
The current State of OSGeo: Overview of the established OSGeo software products, incubating projects, local chapter and conference activities and some politics. And as always: What is different about software in general.
gvSIG Mobile as a client of SDI,OSGIS 2009.Nottinghamadelrey
gvSIG Mobile is a mobile GIS client developed under the gvSIG project as a framework for mobile devices. It allows users to view and edit geospatial data in the field. The presentation described the history and capabilities of gvSIG Mobile, including its use of Java and support for vector data, raster data, and OGC web services. Future plans for gvSIG Mobile include support for additional format types and direct connections to spatial databases and sensor networks.
Euskaltel has been continuously upgrading its GIS system since 1998 to improve functionality and integration with other systems. Key milestones include migrating to ArcGIS 8.1 in 2002 to use SQL Server and address performance issues, integrating with a new .NET CRM system in 2004-2005, and a major migration to ArcGIS 9.2 and ArcGIS Server in 2008. The GIS now supports various telecommunications network management and analysis tasks but continued improvements are needed, such as a dedicated telecommunications management solution and faster web viewer.
OGC Update for State of Geospatial Tech at T-RexGeorge Percivall
An update on OGC activities in three time horizons: Now, Next and After Next. Finishing with how to keep updated on OGC activities.
Now
Recently approved OGC standards
Implementation of approved standards
Next
Standards Program
Innovation Program
After Next
Tech Forecast
How to keep in touch
The document provides an overview of the Orfeo Toolbox (OTB), an open-source library for processing remote sensing imagery. It discusses the history and goals of OTB, how it was developed by leveraging existing open-source libraries, and its growing user community. It also describes how OTB integrates with GIS software like QGIS through plugins that allow processing remote sensing data within a GIS environment.
03 ESNC2014 special prize_european gnss agency_gsaKathrinSturm
ESNC 2014 Presentation at the International Kick off in Rotterdam on 15 April
Presentation of the GSA Special Prize that is organised by the European GNSS Agency
Are you the next European GNSS application entrepreneur? The European GNSS Agency (GSA), a European Union agency, works with the European Commission on a range of activities aimed at helping European entrepreneurs and businesses take commercial advantage of European GNSS (EGNOS and Galileo). The GSA Special Prize rewards the year's most promising application idea for European GNSS. This year's winner will have the opportunity to advance their idea at a suitable incubation centre of their choice within the EU-27 for six months, with an additional six months possible based on an interim evaluation.
Sign up from 1 April - 30 June at www.esnc.eu
The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) is an international contest that awards the best services, products, or business innovations using satellite navigation in everyday life. Since 2004, ESNC’s mission has been to spur on development of market-driven applications based on satellite navigation technologies, including EGNOS and Galileo. Within the past nine years more than 6,000 developers took part in the ESNC.
This year’s prize pool is worth EUR 1 million including cash, business incubation, coaching, patent consulting, prototyping and marketing support, access to customers and user communities, and publicity in the world’s leading satellite navigation network. Winners of the 25 regional and 7 special prizes will be in the running for the grand prize of EUR 20,000 and six months incubation in a regional centre of choice.
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) enable countless applications here on Earth. Submissions are welcome in any relevant application field, including: Location Based Services, Smart Moving, Safety & Security,Navigation, Health, Energy, Augmented Reality, Gaming, Sports & Tracking, Public & Social Services, Agriculture and many more.
The document compares several mobile GIS applications including both proprietary and open source options. It discusses platforms, features, and performance based on tests of common tasks. While open source applications have potential and are comparable to ArcPad in many ways, they still need more documentation, customization options, and support for professional sensors to be as full featured. New devices, interactions, and technologies also provide opportunities for mobile GIS applications.
Building earth observation applications with NextGEOSS - webinarterradue
Training taster for the NextGEOSS Workshop to be held in Geneva on September 11th, 2018.
A review of the NextGEOSS components and services available to partners for the integration of their applications on the NextGEOSS Platform.
Announcement: https://nextgeoss.eu/second-nextgeoss-training/
1. ArcCatalog allows you to organize and manage spatial data, create and manage geodatabases, and document data with metadata.
2. ArcMap is used for mapping, editing, and map-based analysis tasks. You can view, query, and symbolize data in ArcMap.
3. ArcToolbox provides geoprocessing tools for data conversion and analysis tasks.
Euskaltel has undergone several migrations of its GIS software over time in order to improve performance, meet changing requirements, and support new technologies. The document outlines Euskaltel's initial implementation of ArcView 3.1 in 1998 and subsequent migrations to ArcGIS 8.1 in 2002, ArcGIS 8.3 in 2005, and ArcGIS 9.2 in 2008 to take advantage of new capabilities and address issues with the prior systems. Each migration enhanced Euskaltel's ability to manage its telecommunications networks and support new projects.
1) The document provides an introduction to open source GIS presented by Shin Sanghee to Kazakhstan delegates. It covers topics such as what is open source software, benefits of open source GIS, examples of open source GIS projects and organizations like OSGeo.
2) Key open source GIS projects and components discussed include PostGIS, GeoServer, MapServer, QGIS and OpenLayers. Examples are given of countries adopting open source GIS for national spatial data infrastructure.
3) The OSGeo Foundation aims to support collaborative development of open source geospatial software and promote its use through activities like incubation of projects and providing resources.
Jean-Luc Bordessoule is a senior C++ and Qt programmer with over 25 years of experience developing commercial software projects. He has significant experience in software architecture, refactoring, GUIs, C++, and scientific visualization. His career objective is to serve as a project leader for scientific and visualization developments. Previously, he worked as the main programmer refactoring a velocity analysis product at CGG, contributing to products like reservoir engineering. He also has experience developing 3D visualizers and maintaining interpretation software. His technical skills include C++, Qt, Linux, Windows, algorithms, multi-threading, GUIs, graphics libraries, and agile methodologies.
Providing New Geographic Solutions to the Company Esri
The document summarizes the IT department's experience with ESRI GIS software over time at Canal de Isabel II, including:
1) Early GIS used custom AutoCAD-based software which was difficult to maintain and had poor performance.
2) ArcGIS Desktop provided more powerful tools but custom development led to high upgrade costs. The version control system was also complex.
3) Initial ArcIMS web mapping had limited functionality and slow performance.
4) Later versions of ArcGIS Server improved web mapping capabilities and speed through cached map services.
5) Mobility projects were disrupted when Microsoft changed the Windows Mobile platform, requiring a shift to other mobile platforms supported by ESRI.
This document summarizes a presentation given at the Geospatial World Forum 2016 about the ENERGIC-OD project. The ENERGIC-OD project aims to build a unified architecture for accessing geospatial data across Europe by developing virtual hubs that ensure compliance with INSPIRE and Copernicus standards. It brings together 15 partners from 6 European nations. The presentation included an introduction to the project, a group exercise where participants discussed geospatial data needs, limitations, and opportunities, and a planned discussion of the exercise results. The overall goal of the project is to improve interoperability, stimulate innovation and business using open geospatial data.
This document provides a status update and overview of projects funded by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) Fundamental Elements program. It summarizes three ongoing projects in 2015 related to SBAS receiver development for aviation, and E-GNSS engine development for road transportation applications. It also outlines seven planned projects for 2016 related to areas like ARAIM receiver development, maritime receivers, MEOSAR beacon prototyping, and commercial service user terminals. The document concludes by advertising two open calls for proposals on high-end professional receivers and low-end mass market core technology development.
Raster Data In GeoServer And GeoTools: Achievements, Issues And Future Develo...GeoSolutions
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the developments during last years in raster data support in GeoTools and GeoServer, and also to introduce and discuss future development directions.
An Overview of Web GIS and Location Based Services
Insbruk
1. 12th EC-GI&GIS Workshop
EC-
“Where would you go for mapping services,
Ordnance Survey or Google Maps?”
Implementing “hackable” user-driven GI
user-
services within SDIs
Gianni Barrotta, CORE Soluzioni Informatiche
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2. Agenda
Lessons learnt: Google/Yahoo/…
“Hackable” user-driven GI services
Hackable” user-
OGC-
OGC-compliant APIs
Standards in action
Conclusions
… my company
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3. Lessons learnt: Google/Yahoo/…
On February 2006 Jo Walsh wrote (∗):
(∗
Google Maps / Earth and now MSN Live Local have been
big drivers for public awareness of digital mapping and
location technology. All of those services make some use
of publically funded, state-collected geodata (mostly in
state-
aerial imagery). Google Maps got so much interest
because it was so ''hackable'; developers with no
hackable';
cartographic knowledge at all could build their own
services on top of it, augmenting it from public-domain-
public-domain-
derived utilities like http://geocoder.us
(∗) Walsh J., EGIP Mailing list, 27 February 2006 – http://egip.jrc.it/200602/1561.html
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4. Lessons learnt: Google/Yahoo/…
Google and others affect (or “disrupt”) the
direction and future of the geospatial
community (∗)
“Recently, the product manager of Google Maps
was asked about supporting OGC APIs, he said he
was not aware of who or what OGC is”
(TC211, 2005)
(∗) ISO/TC211 Newsletter Num. 8, 2005, Editorial: Standards for Whom,
http://www.isotc211.org/Outreach/Newsletter/Newsletter_08_2005/TC_211_Newsletter_08.doc
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5. Lessons learnt: Google/Yahoo/…
… never heard about Telcontar ??
Yahoo, Google, Ask, … are powered by Telcontar
Drill Down Server platform … http://www.telcontar.com/
… implementing OGC Location Services (OLS) 1.0
… but not OGC WMS 1.x
4 main solutions exist to satisfy the “million or
more agog users” (TC211, 2005)
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6. Lessons learnt: Google/Yahoo/…
1) GoogleMaps API (Telcontar)
2) (alternatively) PushPinTM API … to have
something like GoogleMaps without Google’s
“disadvantages”
3) GoogleMaps API + “my own” WMS layers
4) CubeWerx OGC WMS Connector to integrate
WMS connector to Google Maps service
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7. “Hackable” user-driven GI services
user-
We were asked to implement something like
GoogleMap …
… without its “disadvantages”
… with “my” own data instead of TeleAtlas
… ISO-OGC compliant (eg. WMS)
ISO-
… for unskilled users
… publish and navigate
… customizable (new functionalities)
really FREE & REUSABLE
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8. “Hackable” user-driven GI services
user-
SDI development at sub-national scale
sub-
Requirements (1)
to provide OGC WMS/WFS/SLD compliant services
via re-usable APIs
re-
to be available and integrated into CMS-created
CMS-
web pages
license-
license-free, no advertisements
unlimited number of transaction
organisation branded
support
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9. “Hackable” user-driven GI services
user-
Requirements (2)
reuse of SDI data (GoogleMaps? … no, thanks!)
“real user” driven
multi-
multi-map / multi-service
multi-
multi-
multi-purposes
Regione Emilia-Romagna “Bookshop” (see SDIC)
Emilia-
Regione Autonoma Sardegna “Navigatore Semplificato”
multi-
multi-platform / multi-browser
multi-
high usability level (navigate, search, …)
W3C WAI compliance (National Law 4/2004)
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10. “Hackable” user-driven GI services
user-
APIs development within SDI frameworks
Features
JS libraries
caching techniques / map tiling
navigation toolbar
ISO standards & OGC specs compliance
EN-ISO19115, 19106, 19125
EN-
WMS-
WMS-generated maps
WFS-
WFS-G gazetteer search (tbc)
W3C WAI
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11. Standards in action
EN-ISO19115 “metadata”
EN-
EN-ISO19106 “profile”
EN-
EN-ISO19125 “simple feature access”
EN-
OGC WMS
OGC WFS-G (to be completed)
WFS-
ECMA-
ECMA-262 Script specification (JavaScript)
W3C XML Recommendation 1.0
W3C XMLHttpRequest Object (Ajax) – new WD
W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
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12. Standards in action
Sigma Ter metadata AGP …………………
tbp
Regione Emilia-Romagna Bookshop……
Emilia-
tbp
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13. Standards in action
Regione Autonoma Sardegna ……………
published
SardegnaTurismo …………………
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15. Conclusions
Google is not “disruptive” …
Main issues on Ajax and accessibility
OGC specs can be really and easily
implemented
SDI geoPortals ≠ COTS geoPortal toolkits
Local SDI experiences are better because they
are real:
real:
real experienced
“real-
“real-user” driven requirements
real standards implementation vs cost/benefit issues
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16. 12th EC-GI&GIS Workshop
EC-
Thanks for your attention
Gianni Barrotta, CORE Soluzioni Informatiche
gianni.barrotta@corenet.it
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17. … my company
Numbers
target: Public Administration
> 100 persone
60 develop engineers in 2 lab (Bologna, Catania)
20 project manager with average experience = 10 years
4 market offices (Bologna, Roma, Catania, Bari)
Customers
6 Regions (Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Abruzzo, Sardegna, Sicilia, Umbria)
6 Provinces (Bologna, Parma, Piacenza, Catania, Ferrara, Ravenna)
10 big Municipalities (Milano, Bologna, Modena, Bari, Cesena, Catania, Ferrara, Rimini, Pordenone, Barletta)
> 30 small-medium Municipalities
4 large account customers (> 1 M€ /anno)
GI skill
web and desktop applications for Public Administration on: Housing, Public Works, Transportation, Urban
planning, environment, tourism
eGovernment solutions
standard and open source implementations
22nd June 2006 12th EC-GI&GIS Workshop – Innsbruck 2006
EC- 17 / 17