viskort/showmap a public sector open source success?

VisKort/ShowMap a public sector open source success?

Niels Kjøller Hansen GIS specialist

Ringsted Kommune

Morten Kristoffer HansenProject manager, Videncenter for OS og åbne standarder

Digitaliseringsstyrelsen

Rasmus EspholmProgram manager/architect, borger.dk

Digitaliseringsstyrelsen

Speakers

Content

- History

- Introduction to ShowMap

- Open source and the community

- From the users perspective

- Success?

History – How and why?Original goals and guidelines:• Loosely coupled map functionality

• GIS for webeditors

• Easy administration

• Multible looks

• Context specific information

• Open source sorftware

Later added:

• Loosely coupled search functionallity

• search results

• webGIS

• Community

The future:

• MobilityMastedatabasen

Front end

Functionalityand data

TabTab

Tab

Map

Map List

Navigationand zoom

Scale

Theme

Overview

How does it work?

The URL-configurator

How is it administrated?

Web-administration

A couple og examples

Existing and planned antennas

ShowMap with google maps

Region in Denmark

More examples

Hørsholm Municipality

Drawing

The core was build on open source

VisKort

VisStedet Geoserver

Openlayers

The Core

The core

Core

Development

Organisation 1

Core

Development

Organisation 1

Organisation 2

Core

Development

Core

Development

Core

Development

Core

Development

As a service

Requirements and vendors«Requirement X.X: … and secure that the system efterwards can be maintained and developed upon by other suppliers …"

” Requirement X.Y: … The code must be transfered to the client …"

" Requirement X.Z: … can be used freely by other public and private agencies and vendors

Open source – What do we hope to gain?

- Based on existing solutions

- Transparency

- More competition, potentially

- More with less

- OOS-projects leads to standardization

Ownership

- Take ownership of development

- Give back to the community

- Ask for OSS as a customer

Open source – What do we hope to gain?

- Based on existing solutions

- Transparency

- Potentially more competition

- More with less

- OOS-projects leads to standardization

Community building

- the public software exchange

Community - status

57 members

20 organizations

3 meetings

To releases:Code merge 11.02Statstidende => 11.11

Members

Activity

3-4 suppliers

Community

Core maintained by community

Expansions, individual organizations

Generalization – core expansion

The future

Two releases a year

2-4 meetings

Common public component?

Activity on the web

Mobility?

About me

• A part of the danish Ubuntu community for, like, ever

• Geographer

• Works with GIS in the Ringsted Municipal Administration

First impressions

Positive

Open Source (Yay!)

Community based (Woo!!)

People behind seem to 'get' community.

Not so positive

Hard to find information

Seemingly non-active/responsive forum

No technical support forum to speak of.

Hard to find information

Documents on digitaliser.dk:

A project description

A list of contributors

Scribbled notes from two meetings

Hard to find information (2)Documents on wiki

Adminstrator documentation (setup)

Developer documentation (coding standards)

Promises, promises, promises:

What is ShowMap?

Guide for new contributors

Roadmap (outdated)

Non-active/responsive forumForum on digitaliser.dk

10 threads since december 2010

5 of them has no responses

No technical support forumWay of support: Through your supplier

Which is fine for your company's installation.

But not for testing and/or private purposes

Various whiningRuns only on Windows (.NET)

No ”Installation for Dummies”-guide (ie. targetted at ME).

RecommendationsAn introduction to where to find resources and

how to interact with the community in general.

Basic installation guide

Encouraging use of the forum ”Open Sourcing” the technical support from the suppliers

Success

If you want to know more

The community on Digitalisér.dk: •http://digitaliser.dk/group/375273

VisKort documentation (wiki): •http://viskort.org

Demo:•http://viskort.dk

Source code: http://view.svn.softwareborsen.dk/cgi-bin/index.cgi/Softwareborsen/viskort/

Niels Kjøller Hansen nkha@ringsted.dk / niels@geokonsulent.dk

Morten Kristoffer HansenMortens digst mail

Rasmus Espholmraesp@digst.dk

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