June 23, 2009 Carrie L. Burkholder GIS Analyst Advisor: Ian Turton , PhD
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Using Open Source Software to Develop a Web Mapping Application
for the Bailey Matthews Shell Museum
June 23, 2009Carrie L. Burkholder
GIS AnalystAdvisor: Ian Turton, PhD
Outline• Background & Scope• Project Goals• Data Sources & Web Mapping Software• Methodology• Challenges• Using GIS Software• Next Steps• Questions
Background & Scope
• The Bailey Matthews Shell Museum• Personal History with the Museum• The Current Collections website
Bailey Matthews Shell Museum• Location: Sanibel Island, Florida• Opened in 1995• Non-profit Museum housing 30 exhibits of
mollusks from around the world• Focuses on Southwest Shells
Personal History
• Visiting the Island for about 18 years• Background in Biology and studied
Mollusks independently• Was invited to volunteer for a day helping
to identify species• Used and interacted with the current
database
Museum Collections
• The Museum encompasses about 150,000 lots of shells from around the world
• Volunteers identify and catalogue the shells
• Online Searchable Collections Database
• What does this data mean?
• Where was this specimen found?
• Unusable in current format to general public?
Project Goals
• Build a Web Mapping Application or Applications that will do the following:
1. Create a searchable online web mapping application
2. Give the user the ability to search the database and click a “Map It” button
Searchable Web Mapping Application
• Give the User the ability to type in a location and have the application zoom to that area
• Show how many and which species were found in that area
• Have the data linked to the Collections database
• Create links to the database so the user can see expanded specimen data
Map It!
Creation of a “Map It” Button
Data Sources & Web Mapping Software
• Bailey Matthews Shell Museum Database• Open Source Software
– Geoserver– OpenLayers– Udig
• Open Source Clients
Methodology
• Standardize the database- site locations- spelling- countries, states, regions
• Assign Latitude/Longitude using a series of Geocode Address Locators
• Hand Match remaining records
Database
Geocode Address Locators• Used ESRI data as base for both US Cities and States, as well as
International Cities, and Countries
• 7,490 records of 18,179 matched for
the Cities/Countries
• 4,234 records of 9,665 matched for the Cities/States
How to match remaining records?
• Various World Atlas Websites • Online and print maps• Tourism and Chamber of Commerce Contacts
Challenges
• “Site Unknown”• Data Clusters• Unknown Locations• Account for same named places
Next Steps
• Build the Web Mapping Application– Use Udig to get styles, colors, etc.– OpenSource and Geoserver
• Link data to the Bailey Matthews Shell Museum collections website
• Creating a “Map It” Button• Turn Data over to the Bailey Matthews
Shell Museum
Questions?
Carrie Burkholder– [email protected]– [email protected]
Special thanks to:– Dr. Jose Leal – Director, Bailey Matthews
Shell Museum– Dr. Ian Turton – Academic Advisor