geodata: what's special about spatial?

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Short presentation on spatial data, what it is, how it works and some common errors. Presented at Irish Computer Society seminar on Data Quality, Dublin, September 13 2010.

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GeoData – What's Special about Spatial?

Richard Cantwell

www.geographic.ie richard@geographic.ie twitter.com/GeoGraphicIE

Spatial data – data that is 'located in space'

Represent the curved earth on a flat screen or paper: Projections

Represent features: As points..

.. as lines..

.. as a series of areas.

Raster data.

inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu

INSPIRE Directive:

Spatial Data Infrastructure

Transposed into Irish Law July 2010Fully implemented 2019

Covers:DataMetadataNetwork Services

John Snow's 'Cholera Map' from 1854

www.TheGhostMap.com

Mashup Crime data with current location

(GPS enabled phone)

Unintentional errors

Intentional errors

Scale / projection issues

Classification issues

Selective

Interpretation

Generalisation

Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP)

Trap Streets: The Map..

..and the reality.

Port-au-Prince OpenStreetMap as of 11th Jan 2010

Port-au-Prince OpenStreetMap 3 weeks later

www.geographic.ie

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