An introduction to QGIS including a short history of the development of the software. Highlights of the benefits of using open source software and a top ten of the most requested features when switching from a proprietary GIS to open source QGIS.
QGIS UK: Developing with QGIS - What is possible (Lutra Consulting)Ross McDonald
QGIS is a modular and extensible open source geographic information system. It has a Python API that allows developers to build plugins that interact with QGIS functionality and libraries. Plugins can be built with C++ or Python and interface with QGIS through the QgisInterface class. Example plugins include InaSAFE for hazard impact scenarios and Crayfish for visualizing flood modeling results. Developers can also create standalone applications using the QGIS libraries for tasks like automating GIS processes, building custom editing tools, or developing specialized mapping applications.
Martin Dobias of Lutra Consulting explaining some of the performance enhancements coming in the next releases of QGIS including multi-threaded processing.
QGIS is a free and open source geographic information system (GIS) software that can perform many common GIS tasks like ArcMap such as viewing shapefiles and rasters, georeferencing images, and geoprocessing. It has a clean interface and is faster than ArcMap. While it supports fewer file types than ArcMap, it is cross-platform and free compared to ArcMap's licensing costs. The presentation provides an example of using QGIS to create a map from a CSV file with location data and export it.
This document discusses integrating web GIS applications with monitoring tools for analysis and reporting. It provides an overview of GIS applications and web GIS, demonstrates a web GIS map application, and discusses monitoring the availability, performance, and usage of GIS services. The architecture of monitoring tools is explained, including data collection from GIS servers, windows performance counters, and log files. Examples of dashboard reports on summary data, uptime, usage, and performance from the monitoring tools are also shown.
An introduction to QGIS including a short history of the development of the software. Highlights of the benefits of using open source software and a top ten of the most requested features when switching from a proprietary GIS to open source QGIS.
QGIS UK: Developing with QGIS - What is possible (Lutra Consulting)Ross McDonald
QGIS is a modular and extensible open source geographic information system. It has a Python API that allows developers to build plugins that interact with QGIS functionality and libraries. Plugins can be built with C++ or Python and interface with QGIS through the QgisInterface class. Example plugins include InaSAFE for hazard impact scenarios and Crayfish for visualizing flood modeling results. Developers can also create standalone applications using the QGIS libraries for tasks like automating GIS processes, building custom editing tools, or developing specialized mapping applications.
Martin Dobias of Lutra Consulting explaining some of the performance enhancements coming in the next releases of QGIS including multi-threaded processing.
QGIS is a free and open source geographic information system (GIS) software that can perform many common GIS tasks like ArcMap such as viewing shapefiles and rasters, georeferencing images, and geoprocessing. It has a clean interface and is faster than ArcMap. While it supports fewer file types than ArcMap, it is cross-platform and free compared to ArcMap's licensing costs. The presentation provides an example of using QGIS to create a map from a CSV file with location data and export it.
This document discusses integrating web GIS applications with monitoring tools for analysis and reporting. It provides an overview of GIS applications and web GIS, demonstrates a web GIS map application, and discusses monitoring the availability, performance, and usage of GIS services. The architecture of monitoring tools is explained, including data collection from GIS servers, windows performance counters, and log files. Examples of dashboard reports on summary data, uptime, usage, and performance from the monitoring tools are also shown.
This document provides an overview of designing and publishing cached map services to ArcGIS Server. It discusses:
- What cached maps are and their primary purpose of pre-rendering map images for fast display and reducing server load.
- The key steps for publishing an image service to ArcGIS Server, including designing data, creating a file geodatabase and mosaic dataset, publishing the image service, and creating a cache at various scales and formats.
- Designing mosaic datasets to manage and serve large image collections while reducing processing time and storage needs.
- Using ArcGIS Desktop and Server software to author image services from desktop data and publish them to ArcGIS Server with caches for improved performance.
LSIVIEWER 2.0-A CLIENT-ORIENTED ONLINE VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR GEOSPATIAL VECT...Manikanta Kondeti
Visualize Geospatial vector data with a single click.
http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/lsiviewer
Published in ISPRS Archives: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W7-107-2017
Presented at ISPRS Geospatial Week - WebMGS 2017 held in Wuhan, China.
For more information:
Lab for Spatial Informatics
B2-213, Vindhya Building
International Institute of Information Technology(IIIT-H)
Hyderabad, India
Phone : (+91-40)2300 1967, 1969 Ext.276
This document outlines an agenda for a Google Cloud Infrastructure workshop. The workshop will provide an overview of Google Cloud Platform, including its core computing and storage services. It will also cover hands-on labs and quests using Qwiklabs to practice deploying and developing applications on Google Cloud. The instructor, Akash Agrawal, will discuss his background and provide resources for learning more about Google Cloud Platform.
Crossrail - Big Maps for a Big Project - Smart Infrastructure - Esri UK Annua...Esri UK
Crossrail is a major infrastructure project building a new railway line across London. GIS plays a key role in managing the large amount of spatial data and sharing information across the many stakeholders. The GIS system uses a federated database architecture to integrate data from various systems. Crossrail shares information publicly and internally which provides benefits like reduced costs and improved collaboration. Lessons from Crossrail can help future large infrastructure projects.
Leo Hsu and Regina Obe
We'll demonstrate integrating PostGIS in both PHP and ASP.NET applications.
We'll demonstrate using the new PostGIS 1.5 geography offering to extend existing web applications with proximity analysis.
More advanced use to display maps and stats using OpenLayers, WMS/WFS services and roll your own WFS like service using the PostGIS KML/GML/and or GeoJSON output functions.
Once in the past, routing team at HERE Technologies was in the situation when routing backend was in danger of failing SLA. It’s triggered a massive work to improve its performance. As a side effect of this work, https://github.com/heremaps/flatdata was born: zero-copy memory-mapped data storage.
This talk will be about sharing an experience of creation of Go implementation for Flatdata: zero-copy memory-mapped data storage.
We will compare Go implementation with implementations for other languages. I will show in which cases Go has advantages compared to other languages and opposite cases (hi, generics!). We will look also at the performance aspect of different implementations.
The KDOT Aviation Portal (AP) is an evolution of the popular Airspace Awareness Tool (AAT) released in 2013. This talk will highlight the process used in the migration of the Google Earth Plugin based AAT to the new Cesium based AP as well as how FME Server is used in the delivery FAA provided content.
Arc2Earth FedGeoDay - MapBox and TileMillArc2Earth
This document discusses how to publish ArcGIS maps to TileMill and MapBox. It provides steps for using Arc2Earth to export tiles from an MXD file and sync it with a TileMill project to maintain the look and feel of the ArcGIS map. The document also demonstrates exporting tiles directly from ArcGIS to serve as a tile cache, and using Arc2Earth as a bridge to bring an MXD into TileMill for tile-based map rendering and publishing to MapBox.
- QWC II is a new web-based client for QGIS being developed as an update to the aging QWC I using modern frameworks like AngularJS and ReactJS.
- It will have responsive design, support for QGIS server extensions, and improved usability over QWC I.
- The city of Kristianstad is partnering on QWC II to replace their existing web maps with a solution more tightly integrated with their QGIS desktop and server setup.
The document discusses Cloud Native computing and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It defines Cloud Native as a new paradigm for developing, deploying, and running applications using open source software like microservices, containers, and container orchestration. The CNCF is responsible for building sustainable ecosystems of Cloud Native software and serves as the home for many fastest-growing open source projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. The CNCF landscape includes graduated, incubated, and sandbox projects and drives adoption of the Cloud Native paradigm.
Grafana is an open source analytics and monitoring solution that allows users to visualize data and metrics from various sources. It provides a flexible dashboard interface that supports creating and sharing visualizations, alerting, and templating. Grafana has evolved over several major versions to support more data sources, improved UX, alerting capabilities, and a plugin system. It aims to continue expanding supported data sources and features like reporting, live data streaming, and clustering.
Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch provincessmespire
IDgis, a small Dutch company, won the tender to implement INSPIRE services for the 12 independent provinces in the Netherlands. They developed an architecture that merges the provinces' data by harvesting their WFS services, transforming and loading the data into a centralized database. This database feeds national discovery and view services that provide harmonized, INSPIRE-compliant access to the provinces' environmental data. The implementation was organized with a central team managing the work of the provinces and IDgis developing ETL, deegree, and testing components. Knowledge and open source components were shared and can be reused by other organizations.
3D Solution Templates - Making the World 3DSafe Software
3D Solution Templates are a collection of Workspace templates for processing 3D data with a special focus on how to handle the OGC standard CityGML available (soon) on FME Hub. OGC CityGML is a exchange and storage format for 3D geoinformation that describes the geometry, semantics, appearance and topology of complex 3D features. It is used as a national 3D GIS standard in many countries, e.g. Germany, Netherlands, and Singapore. The 3D Solution Templates have been developed in a cooperation between con terra and virtualcitySYSTEMS. Attendees will gain insights in the Workspace templates which cover topics such as reading, writing and validation of CityGML, related datamodels like INSPIRE and also a various number of 3D formats like 3D PDF and Sketchup.
Esri Scotland Conf 2016 Forestry CommissionEsri UK
This document outlines the challenges faced by the Forestry Commission in facilitating collaboration among staff. It describes the evolution of their platforms from individual PCs in district offices in the 1990s to a modern "Forester" platform that allows all staff access to content from any device. The vision is for Forester to be a centralized hub containing all spatial data, enabling easy search, sharing and updating of content to support collaboration. It provides configurable collaboration tools to streamline the process and aims to make data accessible everywhere by everyone on the Forestry Commission team.
NDGeospatialSummit2019 - Everything You Need to Know About ArcGIS Vector TilesNorth Dakota GIS Hub
Vector tile layers contain indexed data, styles, and fonts for different scale levels that conform to open source standards. They provide tile layer performance for vector data by using client-side rendering to match display resolution and allow dynamic labeling and re-styling. Vector tiles take less server resources and time to produce than raster tiles, are easier to update, and do not use credits for storage. Customizing and updating vector tiles is supported in ArcGIS Online and JavaScript API.
Application and integration of Python in the geodata management of a local go...shj69
The document discusses the use of Python in managing geospatial data for a local government office in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland. The office manages geospatial data infrastructure and applications, develops GIS services, and maintains key geospatial datasets. Python is used to synchronize attribute data between applications and geospatial databases, and to migrate interfaces like the Bluebox interface for exchanging data between geospatial and cadastral systems from Java to Python. Python tools like SQLAlchemy are used for communicating with databases.
The document summarizes a project conducted by Edinburgh Council to survey dropped kerbs using ESRI's Collector application. The survey gathered data on dropped kerbs, raised tables, guardrails, and residential crossovers across the city. While the Collector worked well for gathering the data, some issues arose around labeling, syncing large amounts of data, and downloading data with geometry errors. The collected data will now be added to the Roads Services asset management system and used to prioritize accessibility improvements through smaller streetworks projects and larger capital renewal schemes.
This document provides an overview of Grafana, an open source metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. It discusses Grafana's features such as rich graphing, time series querying, templated queries, annotations, dashboard search and export/import. The document also covers Grafana's history and alternatives. It positions Grafana as providing richer features than Graphite Web and highlights features like multiple y-axes, unit formats, mixing graph types, thresholds and tooltips.
Scalable Data Analytics and Visualization with Cloud Optimized ServicesGlobus
This document discusses scalable data analytics and visualization using cloud optimized services. It provides examples of leveraging cloud technologies like AWS and Azure to build scalable implementations for processing and serving large geospatial and earth observation datasets. This includes architectures for hosting high resolution raster data and services, global hydrologic modeling, and near real-time flood forecasting using NOAA's National Water Model.
QGIS UK User Group - QGIS Evangelism (thinkWhere)QGIS UK
An introduction to QGIS from Neil Benny of thinkWhere including a short history of the development of the software. Highlights of the benefits of using open source software and a top ten of the most requested features when switching from a proprietary GIS to open source QGIS.
QGIS UK User Group - Introduction and FeedbackQGIS UK
This document summarizes the notes from a UK QGIS User Group meeting in Scotland on March 19th, 2014. It discusses setting up a UK QGIS user group, connecting members through online platforms, the day's presentations on QGIS evangelism, performance enhancements, and data connections. A poll found most members were willing to pay for workshops and a subscription. There was also discussion on raising funds and how to apportion them between the core QGIS project and the UK user group.
This document provides an overview of designing and publishing cached map services to ArcGIS Server. It discusses:
- What cached maps are and their primary purpose of pre-rendering map images for fast display and reducing server load.
- The key steps for publishing an image service to ArcGIS Server, including designing data, creating a file geodatabase and mosaic dataset, publishing the image service, and creating a cache at various scales and formats.
- Designing mosaic datasets to manage and serve large image collections while reducing processing time and storage needs.
- Using ArcGIS Desktop and Server software to author image services from desktop data and publish them to ArcGIS Server with caches for improved performance.
LSIVIEWER 2.0-A CLIENT-ORIENTED ONLINE VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR GEOSPATIAL VECT...Manikanta Kondeti
Visualize Geospatial vector data with a single click.
http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/lsiviewer
Published in ISPRS Archives: https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W7-107-2017
Presented at ISPRS Geospatial Week - WebMGS 2017 held in Wuhan, China.
For more information:
Lab for Spatial Informatics
B2-213, Vindhya Building
International Institute of Information Technology(IIIT-H)
Hyderabad, India
Phone : (+91-40)2300 1967, 1969 Ext.276
This document outlines an agenda for a Google Cloud Infrastructure workshop. The workshop will provide an overview of Google Cloud Platform, including its core computing and storage services. It will also cover hands-on labs and quests using Qwiklabs to practice deploying and developing applications on Google Cloud. The instructor, Akash Agrawal, will discuss his background and provide resources for learning more about Google Cloud Platform.
Crossrail - Big Maps for a Big Project - Smart Infrastructure - Esri UK Annua...Esri UK
Crossrail is a major infrastructure project building a new railway line across London. GIS plays a key role in managing the large amount of spatial data and sharing information across the many stakeholders. The GIS system uses a federated database architecture to integrate data from various systems. Crossrail shares information publicly and internally which provides benefits like reduced costs and improved collaboration. Lessons from Crossrail can help future large infrastructure projects.
Leo Hsu and Regina Obe
We'll demonstrate integrating PostGIS in both PHP and ASP.NET applications.
We'll demonstrate using the new PostGIS 1.5 geography offering to extend existing web applications with proximity analysis.
More advanced use to display maps and stats using OpenLayers, WMS/WFS services and roll your own WFS like service using the PostGIS KML/GML/and or GeoJSON output functions.
Once in the past, routing team at HERE Technologies was in the situation when routing backend was in danger of failing SLA. It’s triggered a massive work to improve its performance. As a side effect of this work, https://github.com/heremaps/flatdata was born: zero-copy memory-mapped data storage.
This talk will be about sharing an experience of creation of Go implementation for Flatdata: zero-copy memory-mapped data storage.
We will compare Go implementation with implementations for other languages. I will show in which cases Go has advantages compared to other languages and opposite cases (hi, generics!). We will look also at the performance aspect of different implementations.
The KDOT Aviation Portal (AP) is an evolution of the popular Airspace Awareness Tool (AAT) released in 2013. This talk will highlight the process used in the migration of the Google Earth Plugin based AAT to the new Cesium based AP as well as how FME Server is used in the delivery FAA provided content.
Arc2Earth FedGeoDay - MapBox and TileMillArc2Earth
This document discusses how to publish ArcGIS maps to TileMill and MapBox. It provides steps for using Arc2Earth to export tiles from an MXD file and sync it with a TileMill project to maintain the look and feel of the ArcGIS map. The document also demonstrates exporting tiles directly from ArcGIS to serve as a tile cache, and using Arc2Earth as a bridge to bring an MXD into TileMill for tile-based map rendering and publishing to MapBox.
- QWC II is a new web-based client for QGIS being developed as an update to the aging QWC I using modern frameworks like AngularJS and ReactJS.
- It will have responsive design, support for QGIS server extensions, and improved usability over QWC I.
- The city of Kristianstad is partnering on QWC II to replace their existing web maps with a solution more tightly integrated with their QGIS desktop and server setup.
The document discusses Cloud Native computing and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It defines Cloud Native as a new paradigm for developing, deploying, and running applications using open source software like microservices, containers, and container orchestration. The CNCF is responsible for building sustainable ecosystems of Cloud Native software and serves as the home for many fastest-growing open source projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. The CNCF landscape includes graduated, incubated, and sandbox projects and drives adoption of the Cloud Native paradigm.
Grafana is an open source analytics and monitoring solution that allows users to visualize data and metrics from various sources. It provides a flexible dashboard interface that supports creating and sharing visualizations, alerting, and templating. Grafana has evolved over several major versions to support more data sources, improved UX, alerting capabilities, and a plugin system. It aims to continue expanding supported data sources and features like reporting, live data streaming, and clustering.
Implementing INSPIRE services for Dutch provincessmespire
IDgis, a small Dutch company, won the tender to implement INSPIRE services for the 12 independent provinces in the Netherlands. They developed an architecture that merges the provinces' data by harvesting their WFS services, transforming and loading the data into a centralized database. This database feeds national discovery and view services that provide harmonized, INSPIRE-compliant access to the provinces' environmental data. The implementation was organized with a central team managing the work of the provinces and IDgis developing ETL, deegree, and testing components. Knowledge and open source components were shared and can be reused by other organizations.
3D Solution Templates - Making the World 3DSafe Software
3D Solution Templates are a collection of Workspace templates for processing 3D data with a special focus on how to handle the OGC standard CityGML available (soon) on FME Hub. OGC CityGML is a exchange and storage format for 3D geoinformation that describes the geometry, semantics, appearance and topology of complex 3D features. It is used as a national 3D GIS standard in many countries, e.g. Germany, Netherlands, and Singapore. The 3D Solution Templates have been developed in a cooperation between con terra and virtualcitySYSTEMS. Attendees will gain insights in the Workspace templates which cover topics such as reading, writing and validation of CityGML, related datamodels like INSPIRE and also a various number of 3D formats like 3D PDF and Sketchup.
Esri Scotland Conf 2016 Forestry CommissionEsri UK
This document outlines the challenges faced by the Forestry Commission in facilitating collaboration among staff. It describes the evolution of their platforms from individual PCs in district offices in the 1990s to a modern "Forester" platform that allows all staff access to content from any device. The vision is for Forester to be a centralized hub containing all spatial data, enabling easy search, sharing and updating of content to support collaboration. It provides configurable collaboration tools to streamline the process and aims to make data accessible everywhere by everyone on the Forestry Commission team.
NDGeospatialSummit2019 - Everything You Need to Know About ArcGIS Vector TilesNorth Dakota GIS Hub
Vector tile layers contain indexed data, styles, and fonts for different scale levels that conform to open source standards. They provide tile layer performance for vector data by using client-side rendering to match display resolution and allow dynamic labeling and re-styling. Vector tiles take less server resources and time to produce than raster tiles, are easier to update, and do not use credits for storage. Customizing and updating vector tiles is supported in ArcGIS Online and JavaScript API.
Application and integration of Python in the geodata management of a local go...shj69
The document discusses the use of Python in managing geospatial data for a local government office in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland. The office manages geospatial data infrastructure and applications, develops GIS services, and maintains key geospatial datasets. Python is used to synchronize attribute data between applications and geospatial databases, and to migrate interfaces like the Bluebox interface for exchanging data between geospatial and cadastral systems from Java to Python. Python tools like SQLAlchemy are used for communicating with databases.
The document summarizes a project conducted by Edinburgh Council to survey dropped kerbs using ESRI's Collector application. The survey gathered data on dropped kerbs, raised tables, guardrails, and residential crossovers across the city. While the Collector worked well for gathering the data, some issues arose around labeling, syncing large amounts of data, and downloading data with geometry errors. The collected data will now be added to the Roads Services asset management system and used to prioritize accessibility improvements through smaller streetworks projects and larger capital renewal schemes.
This document provides an overview of Grafana, an open source metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. It discusses Grafana's features such as rich graphing, time series querying, templated queries, annotations, dashboard search and export/import. The document also covers Grafana's history and alternatives. It positions Grafana as providing richer features than Graphite Web and highlights features like multiple y-axes, unit formats, mixing graph types, thresholds and tooltips.
Scalable Data Analytics and Visualization with Cloud Optimized ServicesGlobus
This document discusses scalable data analytics and visualization using cloud optimized services. It provides examples of leveraging cloud technologies like AWS and Azure to build scalable implementations for processing and serving large geospatial and earth observation datasets. This includes architectures for hosting high resolution raster data and services, global hydrologic modeling, and near real-time flood forecasting using NOAA's National Water Model.
QGIS UK User Group - QGIS Evangelism (thinkWhere)QGIS UK
An introduction to QGIS from Neil Benny of thinkWhere including a short history of the development of the software. Highlights of the benefits of using open source software and a top ten of the most requested features when switching from a proprietary GIS to open source QGIS.
QGIS UK User Group - Introduction and FeedbackQGIS UK
This document summarizes the notes from a UK QGIS User Group meeting in Scotland on March 19th, 2014. It discusses setting up a UK QGIS user group, connecting members through online platforms, the day's presentations on QGIS evangelism, performance enhancements, and data connections. A poll found most members were willing to pay for workshops and a subscription. There was also discussion on raising funds and how to apportion them between the core QGIS project and the UK user group.
QGIS UK User Group - QGIS Performance Enhancements (Lutra)QGIS UK
Martin Dobias of Lutra Consulting explaining some of the performance enhancements coming in the next releases of QGIS including multi-core, multi-threaded processing.
QGIS UK User Group - Developing with QGIS (Lutra)QGIS UK
QGIS is a modular and extensible open source geographic information system. It exposes functionality through Python bindings, allowing plugins and standalone applications to be developed. Plugins interact with QGIS through the QgisInterface class, which provides access to core functionality like layers, features, and geometry. Example plugins are InaSAFE for hazard impact scenarios and Crayfish for flood modeling results. Standalone applications can be built with the QGIS libraries for tasks like automating processing, data collection, or specialized navigation tools.
Opening slides - South-East UK QGIS user group meetingQGIS UK
This document summarizes the agenda for the UK QGIS user group meeting on April 2nd, 2014. It introduces the regional leads who helped establish the UK QGIS user group. It describes that the group has a Google+ community of 131 members and a WordPress site. It outlines that several collaborations between members led to the development of new plugins. The agenda then lists presentations on topics like GIS, map production, QGIS with PostGIS, and QGIS with OpenStreetMap. Workshops on Python and QGIS and an intro to QGIS were also scheduled. The document closes by thanking Imperial College, Ordnance Survey, and attendees for their participation.
This document summarizes a presentation about making QGIS more enterprise-ready. It discusses simplifying the QGIS interface for non-GIS users, managing styles and data across an organization, auditing data for changes and compliance through PostgreSQL triggers, and providing dynamic feedback on invalid data entry to improve data quality. The presentation includes demos of these concepts.
Jerry Clough presents techniques for analyzing OpenStreetMap data using QGIS. He discusses using OSM data to simulate the European Urban Atlas project and mapping retail locations. Case studies include analyzing pub density in Britain, simulating land use classification, and tracking street light and retail mappings. Challenges with OSM data like polygon overlaps and tagging variations are also covered.
Dave Murray presented on QGIS, an open source desktop GIS. He discussed why users should consider QGIS, its benefits, and limitations compared to commercial GIS software. Training materials and resources for learning QGIS were provided, including online courses, tutorials, and documentation. While QGIS is limited in some areas like advanced editing and cartography, it was positioned as a valuable free tool worth learning to expand one's GIS skills and have an alternative to expensive commercial software.
2018 - Grupo QGIS Brasil e o lançamento do QGIS 3.4 LTR (Versão de Longo Prazo)George Porto Ferreira
This document summarizes QGIS, an open source geographic information system (GIS) software. It discusses QGIS's 15-year history of development, governance structure, and key contributors from around the world. New features are highlighted for the desktop application, server capabilities, and mobile integration. Guidance is provided on migrating from previous QGIS versions and how to get involved in the project through development, documentation, or other support.
This document provides an overview of geographic information systems (GIS). It defines GIS and lists its main components and functions for supporting decision making about land use, natural resources, and other planning areas. The document outlines the history of GIS, why it is needed, technologies that support it like remote sensing and cartography, and common applications in areas like natural resource management and emergency response. It also discusses GIS software, data, users, methods, benefits, and functions like data capture, compilation, and storage. Finally, it provides lists of common commercial and open source GIS software options as well as advantages, disadvantages, and potential of GIS technology.
This document provides an overview of a GIS workshop that teaches important GIS concepts and how to use Quantum GIS (QGIS) open source software. The goal is for participants to understand basic GIS concepts, navigate the QGIS interface, add and prepare vector data, create thematic maps, and demonstrate competency with QGIS. The workshop covers installing and navigating QGIS, loading shapefiles, defining key GIS terms like layers and vectors/rasters, and downloading necessary plugins. Participants will learn how to load pre-existing shapefiles from sources like DIVA-GIS and explore the QGIS interface.
This document provides an introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the open-source GIS software Quantum GIS (QGIS). It discusses what GIS is, its components and uses, and gives an overview of QGIS's interface and functions. The document then demonstrates how to load shapefiles and join CSV files in QGIS, and provides examples of creating graduated, hot spot and density maps. Finally, it discusses QGIS installation, documentation, file formats and a practical assignment on mapping immunization data.
CyberGIS Architectures for Collaborative Problem Solving - OGC perspectiveGeorge Percivall
The document discusses CyberGIS architectures for collaborative problem solving. It states that the geospatial interoperability plumbing is in place through standards like OGC web services. However, improvements are still needed for big data applications and discrete global grid systems. It also notes that conceptual models and implementations are needed for knowledge objects like decisions and hypotheses to fully enable collaborative knowledge environments.
The document discusses spatial SQL and databases. It provides an agenda for installing software, building a database, importing shapefiles, and writing queries. It then defines spatial SQL, discusses drivers for increased use of location data, and lists databases that support spatial SQL like Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Spatial Lite, and PostGIS. Finally, it covers functionality of spatial databases and shapefiles, and capabilities of PostGIS like spatial indexing.
Making beautiful maps with Mapbox Studio by Charley GlynnShaun Lewis
This document summarizes a presentation about making maps with Mapbox Studio. It discusses cartography principles, using QGIS at Ordnance Survey, OS OpenData products, the Mapbox stack including Studio, loading data as sources, styling with CartoCSS, and advanced cartography techniques. Workshop materials and a guide for loading OS Map Local data into Studio are provided at a given link.
This is a class presentation on MapServer...
The facts and figures explained here are somebody else's work. The author has just accumulated and presented them.
Next Generation Open Data Platforms | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
The document discusses the evolution and future of open data platforms like GeoPlatform.gov, which implements goals of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Strategic Plan. Key points include:
- GeoPlatform.gov provides a consistent portal for open geospatial data and services, and shared hosting of these resources.
- Recent improvements include new map viewers, analytics dashboards, and tools for data discovery, sharing, and collaboration.
- Future plans include expanding data registries, monitoring service quality, and providing more open APIs to developers.
- The overall aim is to advance open data sharing and make national geospatial resources more accessible, interoperable, and usable.
Presentation to for the ISPRS Congress 2012, Melbourne
Over the last decade, standards have played a key role in the expansion of the market for Earth Observation (EO) products and services. Standards become increasingly important as geospatial technologies and markets continue to evolve in an increasingly complex technology ecosystem. OGC and ISPRS work jointly to further the development of this vital information industry.
We continue to see global growth in the supply of geometrically controlled image-based geodata. On the data supplier side, most end-use EO information products use data from multiple EO sources (aerial and satellite) as well as from ground-based sources. On the customer side, customers’ business models involving EO data require easy connections between multiple data suppliers and multiple technology platforms. Typically, new markets create stovepiped, proprietary solutions that persist until market forces create demand for standards that in turn enhance market opportunity. The OGC’s standards meet this demand in the geospatial markets.
OGC leads worldwide in the creation and establishment of standards that allow geospatial content and services to be seamlessly integrated into business and civic processes, the spatial web and enterprise computing. OGC accelerates market assimilation of interoperability research through collaborative consortium processes.
OGC has both domain focused and technology focused activities. For example, the Meteorology & Oceanography Domain Working Group ensures that OGC standards and profiles allow the meteorological community to develop effective interoperability for web services and content across the wider geospatial domain. These needs are met for example by the technology of standards such as netCDF which was brought into the OGC to encourage broader international use and greater interoperability among clients and servers interchanging data in binary form.
Most OGC standards specify open interfaces or encodings that apply to imagery. Some of these are:
o Web Coverage Service (WCS)
o Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS)
o Web Map Service (WMS)
o Geography Markup Language (GML)
o GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding
o OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF)
o Sensor Observation Service (SOS)
o Sensor Planning Service (SPS)
o Sensor Model Language Encoding Standard (SensorML).
o Catalogue Service for the WEB (CSW)
Whitebox GAT - an introduction by its developerRobin Lovelace
John Lindsay, the main developer of the little known but extremely powerful GIS program Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools, describes his software at GISRUK 2014 in Glasgow.
This document discusses standards and interoperability in geographic information systems (GIS). It emphasizes that standards are important for sharing data between government departments and making location-based data accessible to citizens. It outlines some relevant technical standards like OGC, ISO, and OpenLS. The document also discusses challenges around reading, displaying, and editing spatial data from different sources and solutions like spatial databases and web services. Finally, it provides details on how standards will be implemented for a GIS project in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, including the use of Oracle, Envinsa, web services, and OGC standards.
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QGIS UK User Group - QGIS and Cartography (Ordnance Survey)
1. QGIS and Cartography
Scottish UK QGIS User Group meeting
Charley Glynn, Cartographic Design Consultant
19th March 2014
2. OS and OS
Our Chief Architect, Ian James keynoted at FOSS4G 2013
“…a bias towards open source”
Credit: Jody Garnett (CC BY) image from flick
3. OS and QGIS
• Case study on the UK QGIS User Group blog
• OS OnDemand WMS
• OS OpenData Masterclasses
• User Guides (incl. Building Height Attribution)
4. OS and QGIS
• Education team encourage teachers to use QGIS in the classroom
• QGIS used to demo Digimap for Schools WMS
• Becoming the ‘go to’ tool for viewing datasets (e.g. QML, GZ)
• Used frequently to answer customer queries
“In most instances it is much quicker to use than other GIS applications
and it is very intuitive ”
5. QGIS and Cartography
• Makes good cartography simple
• Smooth rendering
• Support for lots of data formats
• Raster and vector styling
• Data-defined styling
• Ability to request/contribute new features
• Save styles into PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• Embed styles in datasets (incl. MapInfo TAB)
• Plug-ins
Some highlights…
13. Launching QGIS stylesheets
• QML stylesheets
• OS OpenData
• All on GitHub (quick download also available)
• User guides
• Free to use, customise, share
All things open
20. Cartographic design resources
• Stylesheets
• Carto Design Principles
• Resources and data
• Map showcase
• Blog posts
• BCS OS OpenData Award
www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/resources/carto-design
21. Lots more to come
• More stylesheets (including OSMM Topo and VML)
Please use them and feedback to us
• Gazetteer search plug-in
• We will continue to play an active role in the User Group