Overview of open source geospatial work at EDINA, delivered to the State of the Map Scotland Conference in Edinburgh, 19 October 2012.

1. @
Addy Pope
Geo-services
Email: addy.pope@ed.ac.uk
Twitter: @go_geo
http://www.gogeo.ac.uk
EDINA website: http://edina.ac.uk
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2. What is EDINA?
is a National Data Centre
Based at
Supported by http://pafciu17.dev.openstreetmap.org/?
module=map&center=-
3.18,55.935&zoom=17&width=400&height=400type=cycle
Open Data & Open Source Software at EDINA

3. What do we do?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steverhode/3183290111/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Ensure continuous access to resources
Preservation initiatives to ensure long term
access to scholarly content
Repository services for open access and
other licensed material
Open Data & Open Source Software at EDINA

4. What do we do?
Multimedia
Services
Geo
Service
Authentication
Bibliographic
Services
Open Data & Open Source Software at EDINA

5. What?
EDINA runs services primarily for the UK education
sector. However, it is increasingly trying to make
its services open and available to everyone.
In this Presentation we will look at some of the
services that EDINA run that you can access and
what you might do with them and some other
“Open” geo-tools.

6. GeoTagger
A basic web service API
for geo-tagging/geo-
coding image, audio and
video media
A demo web client
enabling users to upload
media, metadata parsing
and geo-tagging/geo-
coding
An Open Metadata collection of
geo-tagged/geo-coded enriched
media with a search interface
(this has been seeded with
250,000 images from Geograph

7. GeoTagger
Upload
Your Picture
Existing Exif
Metadata
Export Use map to locate where
image picture was taken

8. Cartogrammar
car·to·gram/ˈ kärtəˌ gram/
A map on which statistical
information is shown in
diagrammatic form.
A small diagram on the face of a
map, showing quantitative
information.
An abstracted and simplified
map the base of which is not
true to scale.
http://www.viewsoftheworld.net

9. Cartogrammar
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10. Creation Parameters

11. Cartogram View and Download

12. Project Goals
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13. Project Goals
• Example of one being made here:
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14. GoGeo
Discover GIS resources
Find Data
Create standards compliant metadata
Learn about metadata standards
Open Data & Open Source Software at EDINA

15. GoGeo
Discover GIS resources
Find Data
Create standards compliant metadata
Learn about metadata standards
Open Data & Open Source Software at EDINA

16. Unlock
Unlock Text – feed in a
body of text and Unlock
will associate places from
it. It uses fuzzy logic to
Web API that provides disambiguate places with
geographic reference to the same name
place names.

17. ShareGeo
Find and share open
spatial data ……

18. ShareGeo
Create maps or perform
spatial analysis

19. Openstream
Web Mapping Service
(WMS) of OS OpenData
Stream map to a GIS or
Google Earth or embed
the map in your website
using the API.

20. Openstream
Stream maps at a
variety of scales with
appropriate detail on
each
Offers an alternative
to OSM. Advantages
and disadvantages –
discuss.

21. Openstream
Great way of streaming maps into a GIS, in this
case QGIS.

22. Putting it all together…….
What if we want to take some Open data and make it available for
others to view it over the internet?
There are plenty of tools to help you do this and you don’t need to be
programmer or GIS expert to achieve it either.
Lets find out how……

23. Putting it all together…….
We are going to make a map that
shows the location of wind farms
around the UK. We could just post
the image we saw earlier, but that
doesn’t allow the user to interact at
all, they cannot zoom or query the
data.

24. Putting it all together…….
Another shameless plug,
but an example of the
useful data that is in
ShareGeo Open ready to
be used.

25. Putting it all together…….

26. Putting it all together…….

27. Putting it all together…….

28. Putting it all together…….

29. Putting it all together…….

30. Putting it all together…….
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>OGR2Layers</title>
<style>
#map{width:800px;height:600px;}
</style>
<script src="http://www.openlayers.org/api/2.11/OpenLayers.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var map, selectsControls
function init(){
var option = {
projection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913"),
displayProjection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326")
};
map = new OpenLayers.Map('map', option);
olmapnik = new OpenLayers.Layer.OSM("OpenStreetMap Mapnik", "http://tile.openstreetmap.org/${z}/${x}/${y}.png");
map.addLayer(olmapnik);
map.setBaseLayer(olmapnik);
var ls= new OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher();
map.addControl(ls);
ls.maximizeControl();
map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.Scale());
map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.Attribution());
map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.Navigation());
var WindFarm_Consented2011 = new OpenLayers.Layer.GML("WindFarm_Consented2011 GeoJSON", "WindFarm_Consented2011.GeoJSON", {format: OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON});
map.addLayer(WindFarm_Consented2011);
var WindFarm_Construction2011 = new OpenLayers.Layer.GML("WindFarm_Construction2011 GeoJSON", "WindFarm_Construction2011.GeoJSON", {format: OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSO
map.addLayer(WindFarm_Construction2011);
var WindFarm_Operational2011 = new OpenLayers.Layer.GML("WindFarm_Operational2011 GeoJSON", "WindFarm_Operational2011.GeoJSON", {format: OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON})
map.addLayer(WindFarm_Operational2011);
var WindFarm_Proposed2011 = new OpenLayers.Layer.GML("WindFarm_Proposed2011 GeoJSON", "WindFarm_Proposed2011.GeoJSON", {format: OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON});
map.addLayer(WindFarm_Proposed2011);
extent = new OpenLayers.Bounds(-16.488754,89.996499,-16.488754,89.996499).transform(new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"), new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913"));
map.zoomToExtent(extent);
};
</script>
</head>
<body onload="init()">
<h1></h1>
<div id="map"></div>
</body>
</html>

31. Other great resources

32. Geo-Events/Groups
The Hutton Club run seminars at 1600 on Fridays.
These focus on Earth System Process and Physical
Geography.

33. Geo-Events/Groups
EEO-AGI(S) Seminar series is also run by the School
of Geoscience on Fridays.
2 Nov – Gary Gale, Director of Places, Nokia
23 Nov – “Humanising Archaeological GIS”, Prof. Gary Lock, University of Oxford
18 Jan – “Analytical and Interactive Cartography”, Prof. Jason Dykes, City
University
8 Feb – “New GI Technologies for Historical Maps”, Chris Fleet, National Library of
Scotland
1 March – “City Science”, Prof. Mike Batty, CASA, UCL
22 March - “Our Ecosystem: Web-based Spatial Data Sharing for Non-Expert GI
Users”, Dr. Karin Viergever, Ecometrica
26 April – “Life at NASA”, Will Cornforth, University of Edinburgh

34. Geo-Events/Groups
The Royal Scottish Geographical Society run
regular seminars around Scotland. Topics are
broad and varied.

35. The objectives of AGI Scotland are:
• to promote awareness on GI and how it could benefit the citizen, commerce and
good governance within Scotland
• to gain access to Scottish and UK governments
• to bring together people with an interest in GI within Scotland
• to tune and deliver membership benefits to Scottish members
• to encourage AGI membership at the grass roots level within Scotland
26 November 2012 – GeoDrinks Glasgow*
Join us at Waxy O’Connors, from 4pm onwards for an informal networking event
27 February 2013 – AGI Scotland Annual Conference, University of Glasgow
For further details of these and other UK wide events, see www.agi.org.uk

36. Addy Pope
Email: addy.pope@ed.ac.uk
Twitter: @go_geo
http://www.gogeo.ac.uk
EDINA website: http://edina.ac.uk

37. Edinburgh Geo-Events/Groups