Dongpo Deng

Open Up Geospatial Data for Looping Citizens in SDI

Institute of Information Science!Academia Sinica, Taiwan!&!Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), !University of Twente, !the Netherlands

Open Data❖ Data without technical and legal restrictions

Courtesy from http://www.wired.co.uk/news/silicon-europe?page=14

Open Geo-Data❖ Technical openness!

❖ Non-proprietary data formats, e.g., GML, KML!❖ Standardized portals for circulating data, e.g., WMTS!

❖ Legal openness!❖ Public domain!

❖ cannot hold copyright by laws, e.g., geo data of US Federal !❖ expired copyright, e.g., Taiwan Bao Maps (over 100 years ago)!❖ not subject to copyright, e.g., drawing maps (facts) is no creativity!

❖ Open Access!❖ copyrighted, but use open licenses, e.g., CC, ODbL

Open Geo-Data in Taiwan❖ Grassroots communities are energetic, e.g., OSM Taiwan,

g0v,…!❖ Lack of high-level policies for Open (Geo-) Data

development!❖ Some concepts need to be addressed: !

❖ Data published on the Web != Open Data!❖ Open GIS != Open Geospatial Data!❖ Pay too much attention on economic values of open data

A government is the biggest geo-data owner

Government As A Platform, Not A Vending Machine

From Gov 2.0 Expo 2010: Tim O'Reilly, "Government as a Platform for Greatness"

Government As A Platform, Not A Vending Machine

Government As A Platform, Not A Vending Machine

http://gobblin.se/u/trc/m/vending-machine-odi-e6c3/

Regulations of Charging for Geo-Data in Taiwan

Charges and Fees Act!

Article 10

Land Surveying and Mapping Act!Article 54

Standard Fee for Data of Land

Survey and Mapping

Land Use Maps and Data

Base Maps and Topographic Maps

Aerial Photo and Remote Sensing Images

Cadastre Maps

Common Version Electronic Maps

Land Surveying and Mapping Integrated Data

e-GPS Service

Different funding models for PSI

US Internal Revenue Service,

IRS

Data producing

agency

Users and other agencies

EU treasury and legislation

Data producing

agency

Other agencies

Users

Congress Wealth/jobs!=taxes

Open data

Europe: data users pay for data

Peter Weiss, 2004. Borders in Cyberspace: Conflicting Public Sector Information Policies and their Economic Impacts, Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science, pp.69-73

4Ps for Open Geo-Data

Policy

Principle

Process

Price

Policy

Principle

Process

Price

Toward next generation of SDI

Adapted from Rajabifard et al. (2006) and Budhathoki et al., (2008)

Data volume

OSM JP and GSI

http://www.slideshare.net/mapconcierge/20131109-sot-mtaiwan

USGS National Map Corps

http://nationalmap.gov/TheNationalMapCorps/index.html

Use OpenStreetMap technologies for collaboratively editing National Map

How about Taiwan?❖ NGIS 2020 plan!

❖ Add policies of Open Geospatial Data?!

❖ Add action plans of engagement with citizens?!

❖ Open up several geo-data?

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Citizens in the loop of open dataA citizen science project: Reptile Road Mortality

https://www.facebook.com/groups/roadkilled/

A post on the Facebook group Reptile Road MortalityObservation Provider: ��Chuang Yu Ta

Photo: �A proof of occurrence

Observation date: ��2013/12/4

Species Identifier: �Joyce Chen

Species name: ���� (Melogale moschata)Identification Date: ��Dec. 4, 2013

Post section

Comment section

Thread

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Data growth of Reptile Road Mortality

Published open data on the webhttp://roadkill.tw

Table view of the data

Gallery view of the data

Data view as Catalogue of Life

Map view of the data

Release source codeshttps://github.com/roadkilltaiwan

Concluding Remarks

❖ Open geospatial data is cornerstone for looping citizen in SDI!

❖ Action plans for engaging with citizens are curial for citizen engagement of SDI!

❖ Make a open ecosystem relied on data, tools, services and policies