1. Towards theOpen Geospatial Web Chris Holmes

2. Architectures of Participation Coined by Tim OReilly 3. 4. An Architecture of Participation is bothsocialandtechnical , leveraging the skills and energy ofusersas much as possibletocooperatein building something bigger than any single person or organization could alone . 5. Architectures of Participation Software: The first domain to see benefits The process can be applied to other fields 6. Geospatial Data

• CreationSharing

7. Primary Goal the sources, systems, network linkages, standards, and institutional issues involved in delivering spatially-related data from many different sources to the widest possible group of potential users at affordable costs.

• Geo Data Sharing

Groot & McLaughlin 2000 8. The Success of SDIs? 9.

• Compelling Initiative

• User at the Center

• User Responsibility

• No Barriers or Difficulty

• Factors for Success

10. Contribute to Compelling Initiative.

Mandated law != useful

Few real users

No recognition

No reward for the effort

Try again in five years?

vs. 11.

Quickly add data to quality map

Ease of customization

Recognition: Shared, emailed, blogged about

Indexed & Searchable

Contribute to Compelling Initiative 12.

Consumers Producers

Data from official sources

Metadata takes training

GIS Professionals Only

Users asContributors 13. Users asContributors

Consumers = Producers

Everyone encouraged to contribute

Community members grow in to experts

Even used for real GISits easier than getting on an SDI

Maps 14. SDI Contributing: Data 15. Hardware 16. Software 17. Metadata 18. Metadata Training 19. A Catalog to Register On 20. Contributing Data to Google 21. 22. Barriers to Entry

Browser

Metadata

Training

Server Hardware

WMS Software

Sharing Agreements

Catalog Registration

23. Does user contribution alone make an SDI? 24. Let commercial players run SDI?

SDIs are a public good

Commercial players have profit motive

Commercial players seek monopoly

DANGER:Governments are handing over data

without opening it to anyone else!

25. Towards the Open Geo Web

Inclusive Infrastructure

Single Geo Web Project

Unlimited Potential

Build on existing Architectures

of Participation

26. Principles:Towards the Open Geo Web

Not just policies,

requirements & mandates

Align incentives to create

a single Geospatial Web

27. Geospatial Data

• CreationSharing

28. OpenStreetMap

• Geo Data Creation:

Is already here

MapShare 29. OSM Maps 30. OSM Maps 31. Though far from mature

Licensing is a big problem

Tools are unsophisticated

Few different workflow options

But huge potential has been proven

32. Towards Maturity:Workflow vs 33. Towards Maturity:Scopevs 34. Towards Maturity:Tools

Compatibility with GIS tools

Advanced workflow management

• Sandboxes, approval before acceptance

• Automatic validation (topology, required fields)

• Branches and merging with Conflict Resolution

• Automatic change notification email / rss

Automatic feature extraction: GPS tracks and Satellite images

35. Towards Maturity:LicensingForGeodata? 36. Towards Maturity:Cooperation

Align efforts so that amateur, commercial, NGO and governmental creators all naturally collaborate

Figure out workflows, tools and licenses that work for everyone

Put NMCAs at the center, incentivizing updates to core layers (from citizens and companies)

Towards living data, constantly evolving - authoritativeandalways up to date

37. Towards Maturity:The role of the NMCA

Natural leader, the most experience capturing and maintaining the highest quality data

Must build upon success of accurate and official maps with latest techniques to improve with participation

Look to derive revenue from services around the data

Use Open Source Business models as examples

38. Learning from Open Source Business

Hosted Services

• Geocoding

• Route finding

• Custom Tiles

• Hosting additional layers, etc.

Guarantee of accuracy

Value add packaging - formats, documentation, software

Subscription to latest updates

39.

• Build on other Architectures of Participation

Dont go it alone

MapShare Align their success with yours 40. Beyond Portals

Web Portals went out of fashion in 2001

GeoWeb Node = GeoPortal 2.0

GeoPortal goal: find existing data

GeoWeb Node goal: increase creation and sharing of data

End goal of both is easier to find and use data

41. No more Aquariums! 42. Join the Web! 43. A Geo Web Node 44. GeoWeb Node:Rooted in Data Access PostGIS Oracle Spatial DB2 ArcSDE MySQL 45. GeoWeb Node:Spreading to the Geo Web Google Earth Virtual Earth Google Maps NASA WorldWind Yahoo!Maps 46. GeoWeb Node:Integrated Viewer 47. GeoWeb Node:Online Styling 48. GeoWeb Node:Easy upload Choose File Geofile.shp Upload 49. GeoWeb Node:Searchable by Google 50. GeoWeb Node:Editing 51. GeoWeb Node:Versioning and advanced workflow 52. GeoWeb Node:User accounts

User statistics

Comments, ratings, tags

Collaborative Filtering

Rankings of best views and data sets contributed

Highest rated, most viewed, most shared

53. GeoWeb Node:Metadata

Derive from user actions

Dont require metadata to put out data

Wiki type editing of metadata

Automatically available with the Catalog standards

54. Where to put these nodes?

Everywhere!

Anywhere you might put a portal

Anywhere you have an Enterprise GIS System

Anywhere people share data with each other

Handling all these use cases will evolve GeoWeb nodes to be truly useful

55. Proprietary vs.Open Source Nodes

Implementation of standards is the most important

Open Source has advantages

• Keep vendors honest with standards

• Technical innovation by all

• Increasing returns on investment

56. Open vs Closed Geo Data

Most important thing is that data is accessible in all standard formats

But the Geo Web will be built on Open Data

• Google has proven this

• An open base will lead to more contributions on top

57. Official vs. User-contributed Data

One Infrastructure

Limited User Permissions

Optional Commenting & Rating

58.

The future is users

Geo Participation

• GIS Professionals

• Amateur Neo Geographers

• Anyone with a locative device

Technology & Community

The Future: Beyond Portals 59. My GeoWeb Goal Lets build a Geo Web thatssocompellingandeasy-to-usethat everyone: Citizens, Governments, NGOs and Companies all naturally collaborate towards the same infrastructure for public good. 60. What you can do:

Go beyond portals, build National Geo Web Nodes with free hosting for open contributors

Try opening data in open source / share alike and/or non-commercial ways, align incentives back

Look for new business further up the value chain, just selling data may not last

Partner with companies who are correcting data and moving up the value chain, dont go it alone

Experiment with participation, both internally and externally

61. Learn more

www.geoserver.org

www.opengeo.org

www.cholmes.wordpress.com

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