Presented by Jo Walsh at One Scotland, One Geography - through innovation, agility and pragmatism, AGI Scotland event, Edinburgh, 28 April 2010

1. Free and Open Source Software for
Regional Spatial Data Infrastructures
Jo Walsh - jo.walsh@ed.ac.uk
EDINA National Datacentre

2. Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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A non-profit organization modelled on
the Apache Software Foundation
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The leading voice for open source GIS
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Rigourous incubation and graduation for
software projects
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Provides a «common brand of quality»

3. OSGeo software stack
Enterprise ServicesEnterprise Services
Database
BrowserBrowser MobileMobile
PostGIS
OpenLayers gvSig
Mobile
Data
OSM
SDI Services
GeoServer
DesktopDesktop
QuantumGIS uDig gvSigGrass GIS gvSigJUMP
MetadataSensorWeb

4. Regional SDIs in Germany
Mapbender – data management
Mapserver – metadata WMS
OpenLayers – web mapping client
PostGIS – geo database
GeoNetwork – geodata catalogue
Rhineland Palatinate, Badem-Wurttemberg,
Brandenburg

5. SDI themes at Dutch Cadaster
PostGIS – database
GDAL/OGR - transformation
GeoServer, Deegree – WFS, WMS
OpenLayers/GeoExt – web mapping
http://inspire.kademo.nl/doc

6. More OSGeo backed SDIs ...
Finland - nationally
http://www.paikkatietoikkuna.fi/web/EN
Regionally http://www.lounaispaikka.fi/
France, Italy, Hungary, Spain – all some
combination of PostGIS, Geoserver,
Mapserver, OpenLayers...

7. OSGeo project origins
GeoServer came from a Manhattan hedgie's
non-profit foundation. Now a company,
http://opengeo.org/
GeoNetwork came from UN FAO. Now a
company, http://geocat.net/
OpenLayers started at a text-mining
company, now owned by Nokia.
It quickly grew a community via OSGeo.

8. Generalitat Valenciana – gvSIG
In-house project of
regional government
of Valencia, Spain
Now mobile versions,
Consultancies,
a Foundation, an
international user
community

9. Geomajas – web management
Origins in Flemish
Government supported
work on geGIS -
http://www.gegis.org/
Now an incubating
OSGeo project.

10. Benefits of OSGeo software
1) Save money.
2) Reduce costs with “Dual-Vendor Strategy”.
3) Flexibility and futureproofing
4) Uphold morale of technical staff

11. More benefits of OSGeo
software
5) Work in partnership with peer
organisations
6) Develop local businesses
7) Move to open standards, open data
8) Pride, respect, shifgrethor

12. Where's Scotland's Data?
CKAN – project of Open Knowledge Foundation

13. Open Knowledge Scotland
http://okscotland.eventbrite.com/
May 13th
2010, 3-7pm,
Informatics Forum, Edinburgh
“How can Scotland benefit from open data?
Are there public implications for
entrepreneurial or ‘big business’ participation?”

14. Thanks.
questions?
Or email later: jo.walsh@ed.ac.uk