Getting Started with the OpenGeo Stack for SDIs

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Towards the Open Geospatial Web
Chris Holmes
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Architectures of Participation
Coined by Tim OReilly
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An Architecture of Participation is both social
and technical, leveraging the skills and energy
of users as much as possible to cooperate in
building something bigger than any single person
or organization could alone.
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Architectures of Participation
Software The first domain to see benefits The
process can be applied to other fields
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Geospatial Data
Creation Sharing
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Geo Data Sharing
Primary Goalthe sources, systems,
network linkages, standards, and institutional
issues involved in delivering spatially-related
data from many different sources to the widest
possible group of potential users at affordable
costs.
Groot McLaughlin 2000
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The Success of SDIs?
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Factors for Success
Compelling Initiative User at the Center User
Responsibility No Barriers or Difficulty
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Contribute to Compelling Initiative.

• Mandated law ! useful
• Few real users
• No recognition
• No reward for the effort
• Try again in five years?

vs.
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Contribute to Compelling Initiative

• Quickly add data to quality map
• Ease of customization
• Recognition Shared, emailed, blogged about
• Indexed Searchable

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Users as Contributors

• Consumers ? Producers
• Data from official sources
• Metadata takes training
• GIS Professionals Only

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Users as Contributors

• Consumers Producers
• Everyone encouraged to contribute
• Community members grow in to experts
• Even used for real GIS its easier
  than getting on an SDI

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SDI Contributing Data
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Hardware
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Software
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Metadata
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Metadata Training
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A Catalog to Register On
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Contributing Data to Google
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Barriers to Entry
Browser Metadata Training Server Hardware WMS
Software Sharing Agreements Catalog Registration
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Does user contribution alone make an SDI?
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Let commercial players run SDI?

• SDIs are a public good
• Commercial players have profit motive
• Commercial players seek monopoly
• DANGER Governments are handing over data
• without opening it to anyone else!

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Towards the Open Geo Web
Inclusive Infrastructure Single Geo Web
Project Unlimited Potential Build on existing
Architectures of Participation
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Principles Towards the Open Geo Web
Not just policies, requirements mandates Align
incentives to create a single Geospatial Web
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Geospatial Data
Creation Sharing
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Geo Data Creation
OpenStreetMap
MapShare

• Is already here

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OSM
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OSM
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Though far from mature

• Licensing is a big problem
• Tools are unsophisticated
• Few different workflow options
• But huge potential has been proven

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Towards Maturity Workflow
vs
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Towards Maturity Scope
vs
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Towards Maturity Tools

• Compatibility with GIS tools
• Advanced workflow management
• Sandboxes, approval before acceptance
• Automatic validation (topology, required fields)
• Branches and merging with Conflict Resolution
• Automatic change notification email / rss
• Automatic feature extraction GPS tracks and
  Satellite images

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Towards Maturity Licensing
For Geodata?
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Towards Maturity Cooperation

• Align efforts so that amateur, commercial, NGO
  and governmental creators all naturally
  collaborate
• Figure out workflows, tools and licenses that
  work for everyone
• Put NMCAs at the center, incentivizing updates to
  core layers (from citizens and companies)
• Towards living data, constantly evolving -
  authoritative and always up to date

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Beyond Portals

• Web Portals went out of fashion in 2001
• GeoWeb Node GeoPortal 2.0
• GeoPortal goal find existing data
• GeoWeb Node goal increase creation and sharing
  of data
• End goal of both is easier to find and use data

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No more Aquariums!
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Join the Web!
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A Geo Web Node
Building SDIs from the bottom up
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GeoWeb Node Rooted in Data Access
MySQL
PostGIS
ArcSDE
DB2
Oracle Spatial
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GeoWeb Node Spreading to the Geo Web
Google Earth
NASAWorldWind
Google Maps
Virtual Earth
Yahoo! Maps
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GeoWeb Node Integrated Viewer
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GeoWeb Node Online Styling
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GeoWeb Node Easy upload
Choose File
Geofile.shp
Upload
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GeoWeb Node Searchable by Google
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GeoWeb Node Editing
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GeoWeb Node Versioning and advanced workflow
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GeoWeb Node User accounts

• User statistics
• Comments, ratings, tags
• Collaborative Filtering
• Rankings of best views and data sets
  contributed
• Highest rated, most viewed, most shared

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GeoWeb Node Metadata

• Derive from user actions
• Dont require metadata to put out data
• Wiki type editing of metadata
• Automatically available with the Catalog standards

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GeoWeb Node The bottom up SDI

• Traditional SDI start with metadata
• Metadata -gt Users -gt Data
• GeoWebNodes start with data
• Data -gt Users -gt Metadata
• Built like the web, once there is enough valuable
  data available others will come along to help
  solve the harder search problems

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Where to put these nodes?

• Everywhere!
• Anywhere you might put a portal
• Anywhere you have an Enterprise GIS System
• Anywhere people share data with each other
• Handling all these use cases will evolve GeoWeb
  nodes to be truly useful

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A National GeoWeb Node

• Provide a user friendly fully hosted
  infrastructure for sharing data.
• Easy for anyone to create maps add data, style
  existing maps, mash-up diverse sources, edit
  other's data, export results out
• Free for small and government users, cost
  recovery for larger uses
• Resulting maps available as WMS, WFS, Catalog, on
  Google Earth

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Spreading the GeoWeb Nodes

• Build the national on Open Source Software
• Allow anyone to use the same package
• Local levels may improve software in other ways
  that national node can use
• Encourage internal use, make it the easiest way
  to create and share data
• Sync nodes up and down for increased performance
• Result is a true information infrastructure

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Building the GeoWeb Node
The OpenGeo Suite
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Dont have to go it alone
OpenGeo
Enterprise
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The Future Beyond Portals

• The future is users
• Geo Participation
• GIS Professionals
• Amateur Neo Geographers
• Anyone with a locative device
• Technology Community

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My GeoWeb Goal
Lets build a Geo Web thats so compelling and
easy-to-use that everyone Citizens, Governments,
NGOs and Companies all naturally collaborate
towards the same infrastructure for public good.
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What you can do

• Go beyond portals, build National Geo Web Nodes
  with free hosting for open contributors
• Try opening data in open source / share alike
  and/or non-commercial ways, align incentives back
• Look for new business further up the value chain,
  just selling data may not last
• Partner with companies who are correcting data
  and moving up the value chain, dont go it alone
• Experiment with participation, both internally
  and externally

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Towards Maturity The role of the NMCA

• Natural leader, the most experience capturing and
  maintaining the highest quality data
• Must build upon success of accurate and official
  maps with latest techniques to improve with
  participation
• Look to derive revenue from services around the
  data
• Use Open Source Business models as examples

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Learning from Open Source Business

• Hosted Services
• Geocoding
• Route finding
• Custom Tiles
• Hosting additional layers, etc.
• Guarantee of accuracy
• Value add packaging - formats, documentation,
  software
• Subscription to latest updates

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Build on other Architectures of Participation
MapShare

• Dont go it alone

Align their success with yours
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Open vs Closed Geo Data

• Most important thing is that data is accessible
  in all standard formats
• But the Geo Web will be built on Open Data
• Google has proven this
• An open base will lead to more contributions on
  top

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Official vs. User-contributed Data
One Infrastructure Limited User
Permissions Optional Commenting Rating