Ordnance Survey

Big Data

QGISESRI

Proprietary

Open Source

FOSS4G

Open Data

Rasters

Vector

.shp

PostGIS

GIS

Geogeek

Python

MapInfo

CadCorp

.TAB

27700 WGS 84

WMS

data.gov.uk

.csv

Who is this man & why is he here! Name:

Job title:

Current Employer:

Geogeek:

Describe your role:

Why are you here:

Simon Miles

GIS Developer

Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead

YES!

I create maps from data, scripts and code; and help 80+ other staff to roughly the same thing!

To sell you free GIS!

Routes into GIS?

QGISAstun Technology Open-Source

Goodies

Data

What is QGIS?

Open-Source GIS solution = Licence Free

<0.5 million downloads as of version 1.8

UK Local Authority uptake growing!

www.qgis.org

RBWM migrated from a proprietary to open source GIS last year

Yr 1 savings of £15,000 in just licence costs

Increased our GIS user base to over 80

Why migrate?

Image - http://abrampoon.files.wordpress.co/2010/08/at-cross-roads3.jpg

ESRI (Proprietary GIS vendor)

Costing a fortune Locked in data

No real means of scaling up GIS

?Alternative GIS vendor

?

?Spend more

with ESRI ?

?Go

Open-Source ?

Savings?

Image -http://www.q4.com/savings-accounts/

Reduction inHardware upgrades,Memory, cpu’s etc

£15,000 in ESRI

Licence costsYr 1

Server consolidation

More GIS for less

Further savings in ESRI

Licence costs of£7000Yr 2

What do we do with GIS?

Lots!Over 700 datasets in our database

Some staff….Just view data

Create dataAnalysis data

Data - PostGIS

750 odd GIS datasets

From Dog bins

to CCTV camera coverage

Data - Rasters

Ordnance Survey supplied data,Vector Map Local 1:50,000 map etc

We purchase…

Aerial PhotographyHistoric Maps

Image:http://clayman5.deviantart.com/art/raster-man-reggae-music-296533472

Data – Raw GIS formats

• Supplied by contractors

• Created in-house

• Downloads from

data.gov.uk ONS Environment Agency

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Master Map – look and feelC

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3D

Master Map – Urban Grain

2001 census data

Crime data

imd 2010 – Living Environment

VML + QGIS + Inkscape =

Me! – Simon Miles

simon.miles@rbwm.gov.uk

@geosmiles

http://ukqgis.wordpress.com/