Open Source GeoSpatial

Open Source GeoSpatial

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  Open Source GeoSpatial Software Arnaud Vandecasteele Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada
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  How people seeOpen Source guys? 2/21
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  How people seeOpen Source software? 3/21
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  What is reallyOpen Source ? Open source is everywhere 4/21
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  Why Open Source? Code source remains in public domain High Software Quality* Security (Linus Law) Interoperability Creativity Source: Stevekiernan 5/21
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  What about GeoSpatial? 6/21
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  A brief history Source:Markus Neteler http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source_GIS_History#Timeline 7/21
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  Organisations and Consortiums Software Standards + Support and promote the highest quality Open Source GeoSpatial Software and Standards 8/21
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  Open Source GisEcosystem web mapping Quantum GIS Quantum GIS OSSIM UMN MapServer GRASS GIS uDig MapServer MapNik Geopublisher gvSIG deegree GeoMajas KOSMO deegree GIS desktop GIS ZOO Project OpenStreetMap MapFish GMT MapGuide OS GDAL/OGR FDO OpenLayers GeoKettle GeoServer Mapbender GeoTools GEOS PostGIS GeoNetwork Viking MetaCRS SpatialLite metadata libraries Source: Jeff McKenna 9/21
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  Desktop Applications http://www.gvsig.org/ http://www.qgis.org/ 10/21
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  Desktop Applications http://trac.osgeo.org/ossim/ 11/21
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  Programming 12/21
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  Storage PostGis @ http://postgis.refractions.net/ Projectstarted in 2001 Based on Postgresql A lot of functions (more than 200) Geometric and Geographic data Raster data MySql Spatial @ http://dev.mysql.com/ Integrated into MySQL since 4.1 Geometric data (plan) No projection Few spatial function SpatialLite @ http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/ Based on SQL Lite Minimal weight (250 ko) GUI 13/21
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  Publishing on theWeb - Server MapServer @ http://mapserver.org/ Started in 1995 !!! Language C Platforme Linux, Window, Mac Os X Can read a lot of geographic data GeoServer @ http://geoserver.org/ Started in 2001 Language Java Very active community Platforme Linux, Window, Mac Os X GUI WMS QGIS Server Started in 2010 Based on QGIS API Quick and easy style creation Platforme Linux, Window, Mac Os X WMS/WFS Support 14/21
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  Publishing on theWeb - Client OpenLayers http://openlayers.org/ One of (maybe the) best API LeafLet http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/ Very active community Tile5 http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/ Based on the potentiality of HTML5 PolyMaps http://polymaps.org/ SVG format Modest Maps http://modestmaps.com/ Language Flash 15/21
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  Publishing on theWeb - Client 16/21
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  Open Source GeoWebplatform OpenGeo @ http://opengeo.org/ Whole Geographic infrastructure Community and Entreprise edition CartoDB @ http://cartodb.com/ Automatic Geocoding Evolutive commercial offer GeoCommons @ http://cloudmade.com/ Data Catalogue Different rendering and analysis capabilities CloudMade @ http://cloudmade.com/ Data Catalogue Different integration's levels (API, Iframe, etc.) TileMill @ http://mapbox.com/tilemill/ Desktop Application Different rendering and analysis capabilities 17/21
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  Open Source GeoWebplatform CartoDB TileMill 18/21
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  Open Source data OpenStreetMap@ http://www.openstreetmap.org/ 19/21
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  Conclusion Mature software Mature organisation Maturestandards BUT Lack of support Lack of skilled personnel Lack of visibility 20/21
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  Arnaud Vandecasteele @geotribu Questions ? 21/21