GENeSIS

Browsing the Geospatial Web: Making Thematic Maps and Exploiting Free Sources of DataRichard Milton, CASA

UCL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS

Wednesday, 1st December 2010 -  1700

Visualising Bike ShareOliver O’Brien, CASA

The MapTube Architecture

MapTube

SurveyMapper

Web Server

DataDrop

Virtualisation Server

VM: MapTubeD

VM: Database Server

VM: TOTeM

VM: Twitter x 4

VM: Simulacra8GB Dual Quad Core 300GB

32GB Dual Hex Core (HT) 1.8TBMapTube has 9,548 users and 614 maps

Current Projects

The Mayor’s Office Safer Parks Survey, 28th September 2010

The BBC Living Longer Series, November 2010

Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland

British Library Tweetometer

DataStoresA bibliography with API access and some SPARQL endpoints (Education and Transport)

Direct access to CSV data, API access to Trackernet

Twitter and RSS for new datasets

The “WebMapCreator”crowd-sourcing maps on the web

MapTube

Web Server

DataDrop

Virtualisation Server

VM: MapTubeD

VM: Database ServerDEMO

“Some Data”

MapTubeDTile Rendering for Web-Based Maps

Data Stream

Choropleth

Join Point Geometry

Heatmap

Custom Geometry

Weather

Geometry Database

Geometry Stream

PointTileRenderers

WMS Layers

Applications

Transport

Property Retail

Population

Environment

World Shipping: VOS and AIS

13th to 30th April 2010 (6H, 12H, 18H) – 49,208 clickable pointshttp://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/amp/mmop/JCOMM/OPA/SOT/vos.htmlhttp://www.vesseltracker.com

Weather [MOVIE]

Aircraft: ADS-B and ACARSwhy’s that star moving?

413,360 points from 22nd November 2010http://www.flightradar24.com [MOVIE]

House PricesHouseprices.co.uk, nethouseprices.com, and more...

Retail

GPS Files, Points of Interest and web scraping[Movie]

Trains, Tube Strikes, Twitter and APIsTwitter 29 Nov 2010 13Z (24,575 points)

And Finallysorting and searching

614 maps (nodes)32875 edges

SearchingData-Mining

Any Questions?

Browsing the Geospatial Web: Making Thematic Maps and Exploiting Free Sources of Data

Richard Milton, CASA