Open GeoData: And overview and practical introduction Richard Cantwell Principal www.geographic.ie [email_address] twitter.com/GeoGraphicIE
Open GeoData: And overview and practical introduction Richard Cantwell Senior GIS Consultant www.gamma.ie [email_address]
Cartography.. Spatial Data.. GIS.. all changing. http://www.axismaps.com/typographic.php
Open Knowledge: “ A piece of content or data is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.” http://www.opendefinition.org/ What is Open? http://flic.kr/p/7Aqgs5
Publish data in web-standard format (that means XML, not PDF, XLS, DOC...) Standards: INSPIRE, W3C, OGC. Community: Plug into existing, attract new userbase. Build it, Publicise it, Use it and they will come.. All dependent on Open Data & Standards http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
New ways of visualising and exploring data http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4982034696/
New sources of GeoData http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4672160490
New methods of extracting GeoData http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/flickr-as-a-paintbrush/
Social Networks – a rich source  www.weeplaces.com
Open Data http://www.oobrien.com/vis/bikes/
New Geographies http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/urbantick/maps/london_ncl_100628.html
New Technologies http://prettymaps.stamen.com/
Augmented Reality Browser http://www.walkspace.org/namaland/
Creative Commons Licenses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses
Web Mapping – Current Licenses in use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_map_services *
Data vs API
Huge changes in the UK http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/
Free government data isn't necessarily the answer http://www.slideshare.net/pmbatty/geodata-creationpast-present-and-future
Free government data isn't necessarily the answer http://www.slideshare.net/pmbatty/geodata-creationpast-present-and-future
Web Mapping http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/
Pre rendered tiles AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Open API's Rapid development Key Innovations http://flic.kr/p/6xM7Ej
OSi Data http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/
SRTM http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/
Geonames http://www.geonames.org/
Geonames http://www.geonames.org/
Landsat http://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl
Local Authorities beginning to embrace Open Data http://data.fingal.ie/
Local Authorities beginning to embrace Open Data http://www.dublin.ie/maps/
Building blocks being put in place http://ie.ckan.net/
http://labs.geofabrik.de/history OpenStreetMap
Large Community, Rapid Growth http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats
Frequent Updates http://www.itoworld.com/static/osm_mapper.html
www.osm-wms.de Services & Capabilities Expanding
Vector Data - Cartography http://maps.cloudmade.com/editor
Custom POI Maps http://www.lenz-online.de/cgi-bin/osm/osmpoinit.pl
OpenIrishMap http://www.technomancy.org/openirishmap/
Timeliness http://www.openstreetmap.org
Haiti OSM 11 th  Jan 2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264767/
Haiti OSM 14 th  Jan 2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264771
http://walking-papers.org GPS Mapping – on Paper
Irish Use Example
OSM in 3D http://www.osm-3d.org
 
 
Open Source Geo Software http://www.osgeo.org/
Open Source Geo Services http://www.geocommons.com
OpenStreetMap Data & Services http://www.geofabrik.de
OpenStreetMap Data & Services http://www.cloudmade.com
Online Reading opengeodata.org www.vicchi.org povesham.wordpress.com groups.google.com/group/open-data-ireland www.spatiallyadjusted.com www.edparsons.com geothought.blogspot.com knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/giscussions oliverobrien.co.uk mike.teczno.com www.geographic.ie http://flic.kr/p/z6hK
Break Time.  Second Session is a hands-on practical using Potlatch 2 to edit the OpenStreetMap Database http://flic.kr/p/4PFsFb
www.GeoGraphic.ie

Open Geodata, DIT, December 2010