OpenStreetMap and open maps in Estonia

MTÜ Avatud maakaardi selts

• Registered NGO

• “Open Map Society”

• Established 2009 August

• Why?

• To do projects

• Estonian language world map, own styling

• Specific services

• To do something together

Plans for the AMS

• What

• Own technical platform

• World map in Estonian language and projection

• Soft side. Events, information, trainings

• Projects

• KÜSK 2010-2011

Activities of AMS

• Technical

• www.maakaart.ee - localized OSM info portal

• kaart.maakaart.ee – localized OSM map server

• World in Estonian language

• Supports Estonian coordinate system via WMS

• Own map layout

• Translations: JOSM, OSM Web, Wiki guides

• Other

• OSM mapping parties: Pärnu, Paide, Võrumaa.

• OSM Seminars to other NGOs, schools, universities

• Free GIS seminars in universities

• Promo in GIS and mapping conferences.

• Tartu, August 2013

• 40 participants from 10 countries

Data imports

• Tallinn city buildings

• Unofficial, 2008

• Tartu city government

• All city data, 2009

• Eesti Maaamet, National Land Survey

• Permission to use online maps and WMS, 2009

• Corine Land Cover

• Mixed result

• Addressess and buildings

• osm.svimik.com, 2013

Open Data in Estonia

• Tech-savvy (self-)image• Tweeting President

• EE-country

• ID-Card for everyone, Mobile ID

• E-voting

• E-citizenship

• Some realistic notes• Quite empty open data portal

• Laws requires “machine-readable open data”

• Open Geodata - NLB• “Symbolic” price: 0.01 EUR / thousand objects

• License discussions: CC 4.0 proposal

• Work in progress

Open Geo Datasets for Estonia

• OpenStreetMap

• Corine Land Cover – not very good

• Keskkonnateenistus – rivers, waters

• Forest register - shapefiles

• NLB open datasets – www.maaamet.ee

• Administrative borders – shapefiles

• Address database – ftp per request

• WMS for most data layers, including address GetFeatureInfo

• Geo Web portals

• Maa-ameti geoportaal - geoportaal.maaamet.ee

• Eesti Geoportaal – inspire.maaamet.ee

ESTGIS

• www.estgis.ee

• Established 2010

• Over 100 members

• Estonian NLB

• Companies: ESRI, Regio etc

• Universities: Tartu etc

• GIS experts

• Activities

• Yearly conference – November

• Yearly summer school - August

• GIS day

• Policy participation - tricky

Open Source GIS

• General approach

• Preferred in state level

• Not mandatory

• GIS usage

• Quite a lot in server level – Geoserver, PostGIS, Leaflet

• Desktop – more limited

• Contribution, development

• Very little

Nutiteq Offline Maps apphttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutiteq.app.nutimap3d

Nutiteq Maps SDK

1.Nutiteq Maps SDK for Enterprise

• Mobile Maps SDK for advanced requirements

• iOS, Android, Xamarin, Windows Phone – common API

• Vector map rendering

• GIS extension: vector (Shape etc), raster (WMS, GeoTIFF etc)

• 3D tools: 3D models, 3D city

• Custom additions and pro services

2.Nutiteq Maps as a Service

• OSM vector base map – online and offline

• Nutiteq Maps SDK for public apps

• developer.nutiteq.com monthly subscription packages

OSM Eurovision

• Source: http://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries

• 11.05.2015: 3421 editors, about 0.5 per M capita

Contacts and thank you!

• General info

• www.maakaart.ee - has English page

• List: talk-ee@openstreetmap.org

• Jaak Laineste

• jaak@openstreetmap.ee

• jaak@nutiteq.com

• @jaakl