Presentation on different aspects of openness in geospatial. Just a few minor changes compared to my presentation on the same topic in Nottingham a couple of weeks before.
10. 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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12. 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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13. 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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55. 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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60. 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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61. Crowdsourcing is a paradigm shift for data creation
flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/
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74. <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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75. <?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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