1. Kristoffer Snabb
 Background: Computer Science: Interactive
Digital Media, Sustainable Global
Technologies, Networking business
 > 3 years with softGIS team

2. SoftGIS projects involvement
 Questionnaires with different themes: perceived
environmental safety, perceived environmental
quality, mobility, children's questionnaire etc.
 Continuously open services for participatory
urban planning: Vaasa and Järvenpää
 Consumer behavior patterns and mobility with a
mobile application (Kesko and Fifth element)

3. My focus points
 Developing services for various research needs
 Managed development process for quality
software with as less resources as possible
 Some analysis algorithms, computing and
visualization of data
 Developing softGIS tools to make developing of
similar services easier → softGIS API
(application programming interface)

4. SoftGIS API
 A set of tools to be able to develop softGIS
applications in a fast and reliable manner
 Server side REST interface for handling
softGIS information
 HTTP GET → query information
 HTTP POST → update information
 HTTP PUT → create new information
 HTTP DELETE → delete information
 Javascript and python client for the server
interface

5. SoftGIS user information example

6. SoftGIS user handling
 Register new user
 login user
 Forgot you password
 Email verification for user
 OpenID provider
 Also anonymous user creation for
questionnaires

7. SoftGIS place API

8. GeoJSON example
 { "type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Point",
"coordinates": [102.0, 0.5]}, "properties":
{"category": "appearance"}}

9. SoftGIS analysis example
 www.softgis.fi/features/?category=appearance

10. Technologies used in softGIS
 Python, Django, GeoDjango, CSS 3, HTML 5,
Javascript, Dojo, JQuery, PostgreSQL,
PostGIS, MongoDB, HTTP, REST, GeoJSON,
AJAX, CORS, HTTP auth, OpenID, Oauth,
Opensocial, ArcGIS server, ArcMap, JSON,
GeoJSON etc..

11. SoftGIS architecture

12. Additional features
 All information connected to a user
 Opensocial under development for handling
social network information: families, parents of
kid etc.
 Software architecture allows connecting google
maps, Facebook, Twitter, linkedin and other
third party information to softGIS information
 Works with (almost) everything that is
connected to the Internet

13. Why?
 No need to write applications from the
beginning → Faster development
 Less bugs and other faults in mature software
 No other existing software tools supports all
softGIS requirements
 Open Source with no license fees
 SoftGIS-api released at github with MIT license

14. Work in progress
 Use cases and services development with
softGIS-api, e.g. softGIS Järvenpää
 Continuous requirements elicitation
 Semantic descriptions of the DB data in
RDF/OWL
 Feedback and development collaboration with
other researchers
 Administration interface
 Stable release 1.0 in the near future