Open GeoData: And overview and practical introduction

Richard CantwellPrincipal

www.geographic.ie

richard@geographic.ie

twitter.com/GeoGraphicIE

Open GeoData: And overview and practical introduction

Richard CantwellSenior GIS Consultant

www.gamma.ie

richard.cantwell@gamma.ie

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

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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

Pre rendered tiles

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

Open API's

Rapid development

Key Innovationshttp://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 11th Jan 2010

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264767/

Haiti OSM 14th 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 Readingopengeodata.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

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