Open in Geo? Opening Geo!Open Standards/Source/Data

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• Senior GIS Consultant/Data Scientist RealDolmen

• PhD Geology• Mapping/Modeling shallow water tables and soils

• Open Source GIS Fanboy/Dev• President OSGeo Belgium• SAGA GIS• Debian GIS/Ubuntu GIS• OSGeo Live Project steering committe

• OSGeoLive is a GNU/Linux distribution containing more than 60 of the best open source geospatial applications

OSGeo.be

My Talk

• Open Geo Data

• Open Geo Standards and Services

• Open Source

• Organisations behind Open Geo

Open Geo Data

• Openstreetmap

Open Geo Data

• Openstreetmap

• Crowd-sourced map of theworld

Open Geo Data

• Openstreetmap

Open Geo Data

• Openstreetmap• Large dataset (30Gb)

• Extract part of the data usingOverpass API

Used to respond to disasters and public health

emergencies like Ebola

Gueckedou March 26, 2014

Humanitarian Open StreetMap

Within 5 days, 244 volunteers mapped 90,000+ buildings

Before After

Open Geo Data

• Openstreetmap

• Humanitarian Open Streetmap

• Satellite data

Open Geo Data

• Openstreetmap

• Humanitarian Open Streetmap

• Satellite data• Build your own!

Enviromental Data

Enviromental Data

Other governement data

• Grootschalig referentiebestand (talk at 16h)

New Geo data

Open Geo Data

• To be

• Openaerialmap.org

• Opentraffic.io

• Public transport?

• Point clouds

My Talk

• Open Geo Data

• Open Geo Standards and Services

• Open Source

• Organisations behind Open Geo

Open Data/Standards/Source for Geo

• Find the data• Catalog Service (CSW)

• Show Rendered data• Web mapping service (WMS)• Tile mapping service (TMS)

• Data Standards/services• GML; GeoJSON; CSV on the web• Web Feature service (vector data)• Web coverate service (raster data)• SOS (sensor data)

• Processing Standards• Don’t fetch the data; send a formula, get the response• SQL standards, GeoSPARQL• WPS (web processing service) • Table Join Service

Find Data

• CSW services, eg pyCSW, Geonetwork

Show Rendered Maps

• WMS: Urbis (Brussels) and GRB (Flanders)

• Common standard: easy tocombine different sources independent of theirorigin/software

Processing standards

My Talk

• Open Geo Data

• Open Geo Standards and Services

• Open Source

• Organisations behind Open Geo

Software• OsGeo live DVD

• OSGeoLive is a GNU/Linux distribution containing more than 60 of the best open source geospatial applications

• OsGeo live DVD has the best documentation (summary + quickstart)• http://live.osgeo.org

• OsGeo live DVD• Desktop GIS

• GIS database

• Web Services

• Web clients

http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/saga_quickstart.html

OSGeo live

Analyse your data

• Desktop GIS (Qgis)

• GIS enabled database• Select Sum(customers.spending)

from customers JOIN communes on ST_Contains(communes.geom, customers.geom);

• Postgresql, MySQL, MongoDB, …

• R (statistical language)

• Python (scripting language)

Geo without a GIS

• Use a common basemap

• Extract your data from your(geo)database

Geo without a GIS

• Use a common basemap

• Extract your data from yourdatabase

• Don’t forget the world is a sphere

Why has Geo been opening up?

• Large governement clients

• University users

• Organisations• Open Grass Foundation OGC

• OSGeo

• Open Streetmap

• Locationtech (Eclipse)

Thanks for your attention!

• http://osgeo.be - http://live.osgeo.org

• Questions/remarks? Johan.vandewauw@realdolmen.com

• 23-25 september