Closing plenary talk at the AGI geocommunity conference immediately prior to FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham. On various aspects of open geospatial, but especially on Open Source.

1. in geospatial
Peter Batty
Ubisense
Openness
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2. State of the Map
AGI GeoCommunity
FOSS4G
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5. Open...
source
data
standards
as in
accessible
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6. OPEN AS IN ACCESSIBLE
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7. flic.kr/p/7rnNAD
flic.kr/p/7NEJzF
Location is now
Pervasive and Simple
in consumer applications
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9. DISRUPTIVETECHNOLOGY
Functionality /
performance
Time
Established technology
Disruptive technology
Mainstream
Market
requirements
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10. Consumer led IT
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11. Usability / simplicity
flic.kr/p/3guaAu
Simplicity
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12. “spatial is
special”
“spatial is just
another data type”
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13. THE GEOSPATIAL MARKET
Traditional
GIS
Total market
Google
Apple
Amazon
Facebook
Twitter
Microsoft
Oracle
Nokia
OSGeo
Mapbox
CartoDB
Boundless
Ubisense
Arc2Earth
Astun
Stamen
and many more
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14. OPEN SOURCE
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15. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its
source code made available and licensed with a license in which
the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and
distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.
Open-source software is very often developed in a public,
collaborative manner.
A report by the Standish Group (from 2008) states that
adoption of open-source software models has resulted in
savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers.
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16. Created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial
software. Our goal is to encourage the use and collaborative development
of community-led projects
OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open
source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared
infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration.
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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17. PREVIOUS FOSS4G EVENTS
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18. Web Mapping
deegree
geomajas
GeoMoose
GeoServer
Mapbender
MapBuilder
MapFish
MapGuide Open Source
MapServer
OpenLayers
Team Engine
ZOO-Project
Desktop Applications
GRASS GIS
gvSIG
Marble
Opticks
Quantum GIS
Geospatial Libraries
FDO
GDAL/OGR
GEOS
GeoTools
MetaCRS
OSSIM
PostGIS
rasdaman
Metadata Catalog
GeoNetwork
pycsw
Outreach Projects
Public Geospatial Data
Education and Curriculum
OSGeo Live
Italics signify projects in incubation
Software projects
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19. Project Name Annual
Contributors
Total
Contributors
Lines of Code
Mapbender
Community MapBuilder
MapGuide Open Source
MapServer
OpenLayers
GRASS GIS
OSSIM
Quantum GIS
GDAL
GeoTools
GeoNetwork opensource
Feature Data Objects (FDO)
GEOS
gvSIG Desktop
deegree
PostGIS
Geomajas
GeoServer
MapFish
20 54 1,360,815
1 25 166,028
7 47 515,899
35 68 230,299
51 76 118,043
18 69 1,285,664
7 26 1,076,078
78 116 655,451
23 46 901,142
60 132 3,205,814
27 40 2,345,603
10 36 1,551,951
3 17 143,088
7 19 1,376,314
8 25 982,165
10 23 282,844
10 19 417,228
64 86 700,006
1 17 154,625
Total 440 941 17,469,057
OSGeo Project Details
March 2013
17.5 million
lines of code
440annual
contributors
all time
contributors
941
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20. www.ohloh.net/stacks/151
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23. Developing open source software
is not a hobby
(for most people)
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24. The Web Mapping Shootout
Denver 2011
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26. Functionality Cost Support
Terms PredictabilityFlexibility
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27. Photo by adesigna - http://flic.kr/p/7eukcs
Functionality
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28. http://flic.kr/p/713m5r
Cost
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29. Photo by ecstaticist - http://flic.kr/p/6fx7Ln
Support
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30. Flexibility
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31. Photo by Steve Punter - http://flic.kr/p/5qXFV9
Terms
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32. Photo by Jonathan Caves - http://flic.kr/p/59T6cp
Predictability
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33. How do I
learn more?
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35. OSGeo-Live live.osgeo.org
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36. PostGIS
GeoExt
OpenLayers
GeoServer GeoWebCache
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37. leafletjs.com
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38. cartodb.com
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39. mapbox.com
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40. mapnik.com
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41. D3 - d3js.org
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42. There’s a parallel
geo-world out there!
http://flic.kr/p/bqW9yE
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43. OPEN DATA
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44. Cost of data
barrier to entry
has been a traditional
http://flic.kr/p/5Xb1fD
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45. OPEN DATA
CROWDSOURCING
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46. Geospatial
analysis
Stamen Design
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49. broadbandmap.gov
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55. Crowdsourcingflickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/
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56. Web
publishing participation
2.0
Web
1.0
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57. WIKIPEDIA
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58. OpenStreetMap
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60. What about quality?
“OSM quality is beyond good enough, it is a product
that can be used for a wide range of activities”
Dr Muki Haklay of UCL
Based on a detailed analysis
http://tinyurl.com/mukiosm
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68. Google MapMaker!
Geoweb 2009
Michael Jones, Google
“The future is user created data”
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69. PASSIVE CROWDSOURCING
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70. 2007 data
Database
69 countries
11m miles (18m km) of roads
18m points of interest
People
Field force 700
Central production 270
Technology 500
Total 3349
Financial
Revenue $853m (~€604m)
Data creation & distribution costs $396m(~€280m)
“Creating, maintaining and delivering a
comprehensive, high quality map database is a
multi-step, labor-intensive process.We
currently employ over 270 employees in our
centralized production facility and a global
workforce of over 700 geographic analysts in 32
countries”
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71. Crowdsourcing is a paradigm shift for data creation
flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/
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72. Though “free data” is not a panacea ...
Google “peter batty georant”
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73. Everyone s favorite
punchbag!
O most
pernicious woman!
O villain, villain,
smiling, damned
villain! !
Hamlet!
A portion of this slide is!
© Crown copyright 2006!
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74. How the devil Luxury, with his fat rump and potato finger,
tickles these together! Fry, lechery, fry!!
Thersites,Troilus and Cressida!
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75. Though “free data” is not a panacea ...
Google “peter batty georant”
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76. OPEN STANDARDS
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1.4.7 FME
2.0
FME
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FME
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FME
2.3
FME
2.3a
FME
2000
FME
2000
SR-1
FME
2002
FME
2002
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FME
2003
FME
2003
X2
FME
2004
FME
2004
ICE
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2004
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FME
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2006
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GB
FME
2007
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FME
2010
Beta
UC
Cut
FME
2010
FME
2011
FME
2012
NUMBER OF DATA FORMATS
SUPPORTED BY FME OVERTIME
Chart courtesy of Safe Software
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78. It’s hard to predict
what will become
adopted as a
standard
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80. WMS – Web Map Service
V1.0 from 2000, V1.3 from 2004
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85. 78%of statistics
are made up
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86. 85%
of data has a
spatial
component
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89. <entry>
<title>M 3.2, Mona Passage</title>
<link href="http://example.org/2005/09/09/atom01"/>
<id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id>
<updated>2005-08-17T07:02:32Z</updated>
<summary>We just had a big one.</summary>
<georss:point>45.256 -71.92</georss:point>
</entry>
is child’s play
geoRSS
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90. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
<Placemark>
<name>Simple placemark</name>
<description>Attached to the ground. Intelligently places itself
at the height of the underlying terrain.</description>
<Point>
<coordinates>-122.0822035425683,37.42228990140251,0</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
</kml>
KML
is simple too
(basic)
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91. Web Services
Photo by MrWoodnz - http://flic.kr/p/6WB4N1
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92. SOAP …and WSDLWeb Services Description LanguageSimple Object Access Protocol
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93. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<description xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/wsdl"
xmlns:tns="http://www.tmsws.com/wsdl20sample"
xmlns:whttp="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/"
xmlns:wsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
targetNamespace="http://www.tmsws.com/wsdl20sample">
<!-- Abstract type -->
<types>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns="http://www.tmsws.com/wsdl20sample"
targetNamespace="http://www.example.com/wsdl20sample">
<xs:element name="request">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="header" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:simpleContent>
<xs:extension base="xs:string">
<xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
</xs:extension>
</xs:simpleContent>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="body" type="xs:anyType" minOccurs="0"/>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="method" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
<xs:attribute name="uri" type="xs:anyURI" use="required"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="response">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="header" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:simpleContent>
<xs:extension base="xs:string">
<xs:attribute name="name" use="required"/>
</xs:extension>
</xs:simpleContent>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="body" type="xs:anyType" minOccurs="0"/>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="status-code" type="xs:anySimpleType" use="required"/
>
<xs:attribute name="response-phrase" use="required"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
</types>
<!-- Concrete Binding Over HTTP -->
<binding name="RESTfulInterfaceHttpBinding" interface="tns:RESTfulInterface"
type="http://www.w3.org/ns/wsdl/http">
<operation ref="tns:Get" whttp:method="GET"/>
<operation ref="tns:Post" whttp:method="POST"
whttp:inputSerialization="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"/>
<operation ref="tns:Put" whttp:method="PUT"
whttp:inputSerialization="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"/>
<operation ref="tns:Delete" whttp:method="DELETE"/>
</binding>
<!-- Concrete Binding with SOAP-->
<binding name="RESTfulInterfaceSoapBinding" interface="tns:RESTfulInterface"
type="http://www.w3.org/ns/wsdl/soap"
wsoap:protocol="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap/bindings/HTTP/"
wsoap:mepDefault="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap/mep/request-
response">
<operation ref="tns:Get" />
<operation ref="tns:Post" />
<operation ref="tns:Put" />
<operation ref="tns:Delete" />
</binding>
<!-- Web Service offering endpoints for both bindings-->
<service name="RESTfulService" interface="tns:RESTfulInterface">
<endpoint name="RESTfulServiceHttpEndpoint"
binding="tns:RESTfulInterfaceHttpBinding"
address="http://www.example.com/rest/"/>
<endpoint name="RESTfulServiceSoapEndpoint"
binding="tns:RESTfulInterfaceSoapBinding"
address="http://www.example.com/soap/"/>
</service>
</description>
Example
WSDL code
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94. REST
Jason Birch
City of Nanaimo
Representational
State Transfer
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95. …/a2e/data/datasources/Pole/90974
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96. …/a2e/data/datasources/Pole/90974?f=gjson
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97. …/a2e/data/datasources//Pole/search?f=gjson
&lat=42.600&lon=-76.1780&d=4
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100. “If a dataset available on the web is
in a format that can't be indexed by
Google, does it make a sound?”
Kevin Wiebe
Safe Software
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101. REST
benefits
Simplicity
Linkability
Searchability
Simple update
(using PUT and POST)
Photo by ebatty - http://flic.kr/p/2f3BUQ
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102. SUMMARY
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103. There’s a parallel
geo-world out there!
http://flic.kr/p/bqW9yE
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104. The geo world we know is part of a much larger universe now
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105. peter.batty@ubisense.net
geothought.blogspot.com
@pmbatty
slideshare.net/pmbatty/presentations
This is the most exciting time ever to be
working in the geospatial industry
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