Standardized GIS using Open

Source SoftwareExperiences of Thailand

Dr.-Ing. Phisan SantitamnontSurvey Engineering Department

Faculty of Engineering

Chulalongkorn University

Bangkok Thailand

Email: Phisan.S@eng.chula.ac.th

Contents

Open Source Software

Efforts at Chulalongkorn University

Conclusion and Outlook

Open Source Software

Benefits of Open Source Software

Cut down budget

Opportunity for technology exploration

On-the-job training and education

Prototyping and demo

Excellent tools for research and development

Interesting Web Sites

www.fgdc.gov : isite

www.freegis.org : 158 entries

UMN/DNR MapServer :

mapserver.gis.umn.edu

Postgis http://postgis.refractions.net/

OGDI (Open Geographic Datastore Interface)

GeoServer: geoserver.sourceforge.net

Others: proj4, gml4j, gdal

Interesting Projects

Minnesota MapServer

Package of cgi-based map server

Known of standard GIS data format

Developed by UMN, DNR Minnesota

WMS 1.0.X compliant.

PostGIS

OpenGIS SF specification

Using Postgres as DB Engine

Some advance indexing features

Efforts in Thailand

A Study of Government Data Infrastructure 2001-2002

Initiated by the National Information Technology Committee (NITC), Ministry of Science and Technology

study of data integrity in Thai government

4 Categories of Data: personal data,…. spatial data

For spatial data, study done by Chulalongkorn University

Final report is underway.

Outcomes of GDI

Overview of european and north-american standard

Analysis of NSDI throughout the world

Overview of Thai administration

Seminars and Interview 200 departments and at 5 Ministry CIOs

Prototype Clearinghouse: Isite with gateway implementation

Web Map Server Interface Standard: Minnesota MapServer

Prototyte: Clearinghouse

Base on FGDC: Isite package

Gateway also has been realized.

Two experimental node

TMSE / Clearinghouse

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Standardization on Web Map Server Interface

Minnesota MapServer

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Interfacing with Minnesota MapServer

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GetCapability

GetMap

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Education and Research on OpenGIS

Thesis and projects

Web Map Server, Web Feature Server

based on MapServer and PostGIS

XML, GML, XSLT, SVG

OpenGIS-compliant WWW browser

Promotion and Training of OpenGIS

GIS ในยคุ e-Governmentทุกหน่วยงานผลิตชั้นขอ้มูลท่ีรับผดิชอบ

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IP=C.org

WMSI

WMSI

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GIF

XML

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Upcoming Events

Open source GIS and GRASS users conference 2002, Trento, Italy, 11-13 September 2002, University of Trento http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass

PNC Annual Conference and Joint Meetings 2002PNC/ECAI/ IPSJ-SIGCH/EBTI, 15th-23th September, Japan, http://pnc-ecai.oiu.ac.jp/index-e.html

International Symposium on GeoInformatics for Spatial Infrastructure Development in Earth and Allied Sciences, GISIDEAS'2002) Hanoi, Vietnam, 25-28 September 2002, http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/gisideas/

“Digital Asia” Project, under the Digital Asia Network (DAN) initiated by ACRORS/AIT , promoting on OpenGIS for spatial information sharing, 2002-2005, http://www.acrors.ait.ac.th/digital_asia/

Training Program on OpenGIS for Spatial Information Sharing held by GAC, during 12th-16th November 2002, Bangkok, http://www.gac.ait.ac.th/training/schedule.htm

Conclusion

Open Source Software has open way for researcher to enable ‘standard’.

Thailand has ‘learnt by doing’ using OSS

Research and education for standardized GIS is going on.

Once technology is possessed and requirement had been ratified, then

‘Standards are in Action!!!’