This slideshow I presented was base on my paper "QGIS as an alternative to proprietary GIS" which also won the Grand Prize Award aka MAMPU Open Source Award 2009 (Public Sector) at the MYGOSSON 2009, Putrajaya. Together, they were the founding material I used to expose and introduce to the National Open Source Software Interest Group, the general audience from both the Public and Private Sector as well the general public about a little known but powerful GIS software known as Quantum GIS (QGIS). The rest is history.

1. ABBAS ABDUL WAHAB
Federal Department of Town and Country Planning, Peninsular Malaysia
MINISTRY OF WELLBEING, HOUSING & LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Updated as of 22.10.2014

2. CONTENT
BACKGROUND
INTRODUCTION OF QGIS
QGIS IN LANDUSE PLANNING
GIS ISSUES
HAPPENINGS
QGIS AND INTEGRATED NATIONAL LANDUSE
INFORMATION SYSTEM (I-PLAN)
CONCLUSION

3. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING DEPT.,
& MALAYSIA'S 3 TIER GOVT. SYSTEM
FEDERAL GOVT.
AGENCIES
STATE GOVT.
AGENCIES
LOCAL GOVT.
AGENCIES
4 REGIONAL JPBD
PROJECT OFFICES
8 JPBD HQ
DIVISIONS
11 STATE
JPBD DEPTS
98 LOCAL
PLANNING
AUTHORITIES

4. TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING DEPT.
PENINSULAR MALAYSIA
JPBD
4 PROJECT OFFICE
Northern
Eastern
Central
Southern
11 STATE PLANNING
DEPARTMENT
11 states
JPBD HQ
8 DIVISIONS
Administration
Corporate
National Physical Plan
Research & Development
Legal and Monitoring
Regional Planning
National Landuse
Information
Development Plan

5. TINKERING WITH DUAL BOOT COMPUTER
Windows OS
M/S Office Suite
Ubuntu OS
OpenOffice
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Quantum GIS Quantum GIS
Firefox

6. MYGOSSON 2009
NATIONAL OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE INTEREST GROUP
MAMPU* OPEN SOURCE AWARD 2009 (PUBLIC SECTOR)
went to the Fed. Dept. of Town and Country Planning, Pen. Malaysia (JPBD)
Quantum GIS (QGIS) as an alternative to proprietary GIS
*Malaysian Admin. Modernization & Management Planning Unit, Prime Minister's Department

7. REACTION TO QGIS
FOR
FREE;
SAVING RM 10,000/PAX, NO ANNUAL FEE;
RE-INVEST SAVINGS ON ICT INFRASTRUCTURE;
IMPORT MODULES FROM OPEN SOURCE GRASS GIS.
AGAINST
FEAR OF UNFAMILIAR GROUND
IGNORANT OF GNU PUBLIC LICENCE
NO TECHNICAL SUPPORT

8. 4TH. NAT. GIS CONFERENCE, 2010
NATIONAL GIS INTEREST GROUP
ORGANIZED BY THE MINISTRY OF NAT. RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
Paper presented by JPBD:
Quantum GIS (QGIS) as the principal GIS software for the public sector

9. QGIS PRO & CONS
FOR
GNU PUBLIC LICENCE ALLOWS FREE DOWNLOAD,
INSTALLATION, COPY AND DISTRIBUTION OF QGIS
QGIS IS USER-FRIENDLY, EASY TO USE AND LEARN
AGAINST
FAMILIAR WITH PROPRIETARY GIS
LAZY TO RELEARN NEW GIS SOFTWARE
QGIS INFERIOR TO PROPRIETARY GIS
DIFFICULT TO GET TRAINING IN QGIS
NO TECHNICAL SUPPORT

10. ARTICLES FOR JOURNALS
& BULLETINS, 2011
INCULCATE THE USE OF OSS

11. TECHNICAL UPDATE
EXPOSE AND INTRODUCE QGIS
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, MALAYSIA
DRAINAGE & IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT, MALAYSIA
IT DIVISION, MINISTRY OF WELLBEING,HOUSING & LOCAL GOVT.

12. SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE
SEMINAR ON UTLITY MAPPING AND GIS, 2012

13. PUBLIC EXHIBITION
SHOWCASE EXPERIENCES

14. BLOG
www.qgismalaysia.blogspot.com
FAQs; Happenings; Training; Trial and errors; Important Links

15. MENTOR-MENTEE
TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 POST
2015
PENSION
FADZLAN
RIZAL
ABBAS

16. TURNING POINT: NEWSPAPER CLIP
Q1: TOWARDS WORLD CLASS SOCIETY OR THIRD WORLD MENTALITY?
Q2: PREACH DOUBLE-STANDARDS OR WALK THE TALK?
Q3: WHAT DO YOU WANT?
MAKE UP YOUR MIND!

17. JPBD PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
MEETING, 2012
ESTABLISH DEPARTMENT POLICY ON USE OF QGIS
QGIS REPLACE ALL PIRATED GIS SOFTWARE;
IMMEDIATE QGIS TRAINING FOR ALL DIVISIONS,
PROJECT OFFICES AND STATE JPBDs;
PROCURE PROPRIETARY GIS ONLY IF QGIS
CANNOT PRODUCE A SPECIFIC OUTPUT.

18. QGIS TRAINING, 2012
ESTABLISH A QGIS COMMUNITY IN PUBLIC SECTOR
PARTICIPANTS
JPBD nationwide
25 LOCAL AUTHORITIES
18 PUBLIC AGENCIES
AT LEAST 325 PARTICIPANTS
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
MINISTRY OF RURAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
MaCGDI, MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
FIRE AND SAFETY DEPARTMENT
PETRONAS TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
PUTRA UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA, BINTULU
FORESTRY DEPARTMENT
KEDAH STATE TECHNICAL AGENCIES & LOCAL AUTHORITIES
PERLIS STATE TECHNICAL AGENCIES 7 LOCAL AUTHORITIES
BIO-DIVERSITY CONSERVATION SOCIETY, SARAWAK
K-PERAK SDN. BHD.

19. GIS DATABASE
GIS DATA
SOFTCOPY
HARDCOPY
RASTER
GAZETTE
DOCUMENT VECTOR
SATELLITE IMAGES
AERIAL PHOTOS
POPULATION
ECONOMY
TRANSPORTATION
SOCIAL
PHYSICAL
PLANNING
LAND ADMINISTRATION
ENVIRONMENT
BASE MAP
ZONING PLAN
COMMITED LANDUSE
EXISTING LANDUSE
UTILITY
ELECTRICITY
GAS
WATER
TELECOMMUNICATION
SEWERAGE
DRAINAGE

20. CREATION OF MAP LAYERS

21. MANDATORY DEVELOPMENT PLANS
LOCAL PLAN

22. MANDATORY DEVELOPMENT PLANS
STRUCTURE PLAN

23. DEVELOPMENT PLANS
NATIONAL PHYISICAL PLAN

24. CREATION OF .QML FILE
PLANNING COLOUR TEMPLATE

25. JPBD LANDUSE PORTAL &
PLANNING GEODATA CENTRE
www.townplan.gov.my
Open sharing concept

26. JPBD DATA CLEANING CHECKLIST
1. SPELLING OF GIS LAYER STANDARIDZED
2. DATABASE STRUCTURE STANDARDIZED
3. LANDUSE BASEMAP STANDARDIZED CADASTER MAP
4. COORDINATE REFERENCE SYSTEM STANDARDIZED
5. ROADS ARE POLYGON LAYER AND LINE AS REQUIRED
6. LANDUSE METADATA STANDARDIZED
7. LANDUSE CLASSIFICATION STANDARDIZED
8. LANDUSE CODE STANDARDIZED
9. LANDUSE COLOUR STANDARDIZED
10. ACERAGE ARE COMPUTER GENERATED
11.TOPOLOGY ERRORS ARE ADDRESSED
12. LANDUSE ORGANISATION STANDARDIZED
13. OTHERS

27. DATA CLEANING: TOPOLOGY ERRORS
OVERSHOOT
UNDERSHOOT
OVERLAP
GAP

28. DATA CLEANING: ATTRIBUTE ERRORS
SPELLING
DUPLICATE
AREA

29. TOPOLOGY CHECKER
DATA CLEANING TOOL

30. CHECK GEOMETRY VALIDITY
DATA CLEANING TOOL

31. LANDUSE MAP OVERLAY GOOGLE MAPS
VIRTUAL SITE VISIT

32. REFER SECONDARY DATA
AT OPENSTREETMAP

33. NEED FOR GEOSPATIAL INTEGRATION
VERTICAL & HORIZONTAL LINKAGES
FEDERAL AGENCIES
STATE AGENCIES
LOCAL AGENCIES
vertical
linkage
horizontal
linkage
vertical
linkage
horizontal
linkage
horizontal
linkage

34. DATABASE INTEGRATION
MICRO SCALE
MACRO SCALE
Housing
Commercial
Industry
Institution
&
Com.
Facilities
Infrastructure
&
Utility
Open
Space
&
Recreation
Agriculture
Transportation
Mixed
Development
Water
Bodies
Forestery
Tanah
Kosong
Beach
REGIONAL SCALE
Builtup
Area
Agriculture
Transportation
Water
Bodies
Forestery
Builtup
Area
Agriculture
Water
Bodies
Forestery
vertical
linkage
vertical
linkage

35. LIMITATION OF DESKTOP GIS
ONE:MANY RELATIONSHIP
Templ
e

36. FROM FILE BASE TO RDBMS
DATABASE
SCHEMAS
PUBLIC
TABLES

37. FROM CASSINI SOLDNER TO GDM2000

38. IDENTIFY POLYGON CENTROID
UNIQUE PARCEL IDENTIFIER (UPI) JPBD SUPPORTING TOOL

39. I-PLAN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
WORKSTATION
WORKSTATION
WORKSTATION
WORKSTATION
WORKSTATION
WORKSTATION
WORKSTATION
INTERNET
Production 1
Database server
GIS/Application
server
Web server
Development server
Database VM
GIS/Application
VM
Web VM
SERVER LEVEL
Ubuntu Server 12.04
Citrix XenServer Entreprise (VIRTUAL MEMORY)
OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Professional (GIS)
* GeoServer * PostGIS *GeoWebCache * OpenLayers *Quantum GIS * Mapmeter
* Unlimited bug fix *ArcSDE/Oracle/SQL support *More raster format
PostgreSQL Plus Advanced 9.3 (DATABASE)
* PostGIS
Apache Tomcat 2.4 (WEB)
* OpenSLL 1.0 *PHP 5.5 *Perl *Codelgniter * Laravel
JasperReport Profession Advance Developer Pack
DESKTOP/CLIENT LEVEL
Ubuntu Desktop 12.04
Quantum GIS 2.4
Production 2
Mirror server
Mirror server
Mirror server

40. I-PLAN'S CENTRALIZED APPROACH
7 SERVERS CENTRALIZED AT
JPBD HQ
11 WORKSTATIONS DISTRIBUTED
TO JPBD STATE PLG. DEPTS
THROUGHOUT PEN. MALAYSIA

41. QGIS'S ROLE AT WORKSTATION
DATA UPDATE (Bi-annual)
- Update Committed Landuse layer;
- Update Existing Landuse layer;
- Update landuse Zoning layer;
DATA CLEANING
- Quality data based on standardized
format, structure and metadata
PROCESS PLG. PERMISSIONS
- Approve/Reject planning application
LANDUSE MONITORING
- Check non-conformity & advise
PROVIDE TECH. ADVICE
- Assist public enquiry

42. UNTAPPED POTENTIALS
OF
QUANTUM GIS

43. EVENT BROWSING
GEOCODE PHOTO OR VIDEO CLIP SITE

44. GOOGLE PHYSICAL
FREE INTERNET MAP TO IMPORT

45. SHORTEST PATH ANALYSIS
FIRE STATION 10 MINS. RESPONSE TIME CATCHMENT

46. DATA TRANSFORMATION
TRANSFORM GPS DATA FROM SPREADSHEET TO SPATIAL FORM

47. GEOCODING
RASTER IMAGES OVER VECTOR MAPS

48. SPATIAL ANALYSIS
DISTRIBUTION & ACERAGE OF INDUSTRIAL LAND

49. SPATIAL ANALYSIS
DATA FILTERATION BY SPATIAL LOCATION & TYPE

50. SPATIAL ANALYSIS
LANDUSE MONITORING

51. SPATIAL ANALYSIS
SLOPE ANALYSIS

52. SPATIAL ANALYSIS
PLANNING VISTA

53. INTERNET HELP
STACK EXCHANGE, QGIS USER & DEVELOPER MAILING LISTS, YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, LINKEDIN

54.  HOW YOU OVERCAME THE CHALLENGES TO QGIS?
 Established a QGIS blog
 Two heads better than one: Mentor-Mentee approach
 Train internally and external agencies
 Better exposure:
 Articles in Journals
 Talks at Technical Updates, Seminar & Conference
 Implement a departmental IT policy to use QGIS
 Officially uninstall illegal GIS & replace with QGIS
 At ICT steering committee meeting, reject request to
procure proprietary GIS except where QGIS cannot
produce a desired output
FAQs

55.  HOW PEOPLE GAINED TRUST IN IT?
 Strengthen QGIS user group base from government
agencies from different technical background
 Address hardcore proprietary GIS users dissatification
 Invite sceptics to test QGIS: The proof is in the pudding
 Carry out opinion survey after QGIS training course then
upload opinions and name participant who gave opinion
at QGIS blog
FAQs

56.  HOW THE ACCEPTANCE IS NOW?
 Word of mouth:positive
 Request for QGIS training still coming in
 Difficult to eradicate prejudice
 Difficult to change hardcore proprietary GIS users
FAQs

57.  HOW USERS AND DECISION MAKERS THINK ABOUT THE
BENEFITS TODAY?
 Free, therefore, great cost saver
 Easy to install, User-friendly
 Easy to learn therefore easy to train
 Compatible if not better than proprietary GIS in certain
functions and procedures
 Easy to standardize GIS software for department
 Fast acquisition of GIS
 Getting popular over time eases apprehension
FAQs

58. CONCLUSION
OSS GIS OPEN PHILOSOPHY IS DIFFERENT FROM
PROPRIETARY GIS CLOSE PHILOSOPHY;
QGIS CAN BE OFFSET LACK OF FEATURES BY
IMPORTING OTHER OSS GIS MODULES;
QGIS FREE DOWNLOAD, INSTALL, COPY & DISTRIBUTE;
OPEN SOURCE CODE SO CAN CUSTOMIZE PLUGINS;
QGIS EXCELS AS A DESKTOP GIS;
QGIS IS USER-FRIENDLY, EASY TO USE & LEARN;
QGIS IDEAL STANDARD GIS FOR PUBLIC SECTOR;
ESTABLISH WIDE USER GROUP BASE TO ADRRESS
TECHNICAL SUPPORT ISSUE;

59. A WORD OF ADVICE:
ETHICALLY, YOU SHOULD NOT QUESTION
WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE!
FROM
THE FED. DEPT. OF TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING,
PEN. MALAYSIA