public sphere: gov 2.0 - shoaib burq
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Opening Geographic DataAs Catalyst for the Creative Economy & Innovative Solutions
Shoaib [email protected]
t: @sabman
Geographic Data
What’s so special about it?
When did most people start to take note of Ajax?
When they first saw Google Maps and asked how it works?
Why?
because maps are useful!
and data used to make the map is even more useful
... but, someone forgot to put the download button
Why would we need a download button/data?
Don’t the people who really need it have it already?
I want to create themed cartography
I want to create my own a routing server
... I want to route in Tehran ...
and route my bike to get here today
What about for building other open government sites
What about for building other open government sites
as at 21 December no way to get postal regions boundaries for Australia without paying for non-commercial user
What about for more pressing uses?
as if routing my bike isn’t pressing enough
Global Issues
What about for Predicting Bush fires?
Geo-Temporal Data Global Challenges
What about for Climate Change Research?
Geo-Temporal Data Global Challenges
The Geographic Questions
Where? and Why there?
The Temporal Questions
When? and Why then?
Increasingly we want to answer Geo-Temporal questions
Where & When?Why there & then?
So way can’t we just have the geographic data?
To create say a poverty map for analysis on directing my donations
Key Indicators
• Socio-Economic Data
• Distribution of Poverty
• Basic Human Needs
• Infant Mortality
• Malnutrition Measures
Geographic Factors
• Coastal Proximity
• Climatic Conditions
• Elevations
• Transportation Networks
• Exposure to Natural Disasters
• Climate Change Vulnerability
Besides the reasons mentioned by others there is one reason unique to GeoData
Was Dominated by Specialist Industry and Academia (Suits)
The changing face of the GIS Industry
These people speak another language few web people understand - W*S
• Simple Features Specification
• Web Mapping Service (WMS)
• Web Feature Service (transactional) (WFS-t)
• Web Coverage Service (WCS)
• Web Processing Service (WPS)
• Sensor Observation Service (SOS)
• OGC Catalogue Service (OCS)
• Style Layer Descriptor (SLD)
GIS & Web 2.0
Only just coming to terms with the web architecture
Still have an XML-RPC bias
Still searching for a cleaver search solution
Now Barbarians at the Door
prangz.com (Real-time NSW Traffic Incidents)
prangz.com (Real-time NSW Traffic Incidents)
When Governments Open Up their Data
let’s take GeoRSS
+ =
Atom & GeoRSS
Interoperable out of the box
Standard Identification System (URI)
Interoperable out of the box
Standard interaction protocol
Interoperable out of the box
Standard data exchange formats
Load balance? Easy
REST resources are cacheable
Scalable out of the box
REST resources are stateless so easy to scale
Microformats & Semanitcs | http://microformats.org
Role of Web 2.0 tools
• Crowd sourcing for data
• Local engagement
• Self-help & Collaboration
OpenStreetMap proves public contribution works
Learn More
OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org/
Canberra Mapping Party: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canberra
Open Source Geospatial Conference: October 2009 Sydney http://2009.foss4g.org/
