GeoSolutions Keynote at WebMGS 2015

Ing. Simone Giannecchini
Ing. Andrea Aime
Ing. Mauro Bartolomeoli
Trends and directions in web mapping,
geoprocessing and services from the
perspective of an SME obsessed with
Open Source

Outline
WebMGS 01/07/2015 Cagliari
 About us
 Our World and its Challenges
 Trends
 Conclusions

Who we are
 Founded in late 2006
 Expertise
• Image Processing, GeoSpatial Data Fusion
• Java, Java Enterprise, C++, Python
• JPEG2000, JPIP, Advanced visualization
• Web Based Mashups, Mobile Solutions
 Supporting/Developing FOSS4G projects
 MapStore, GeoServer, GeoNetwork
 CKAN, GeoNode, GeoTools , ImageIO-Ext, JAI-Ext
 Clients
 UN FAO (CIOK, FIGIS, NRL, FORESTRY, ESTG), UN WFP, World Bank, DLR, EUMETSAT, JRC, ARPAT,
NATO CMRE
 ITT-VIS, E-GEOS, GEOSMART, BOAB, SINERGIS, City of Prato, City of Florence, County of Florence,
CSI-Piemonte, NWGEO, IGEA, AMBRERO, LIBEROLOGICO, Astrium UK, Neftex, MDA, etc…
 http://www.geo-solutions.it

Our Offer
 FOSS4G Software is core for us
 Not simply use but develop and support
 Enterprise Support Services
 Bug Fixing
 Support
 Customizations & New Features
 5 packages  different types of needs
 Professional Training
 End-To-End Projects (Integration)
 Tell me what you need, I’ll put it together for you
 We take our core products and
 Bend them, twist them, embed them
 Hammer them to make clients happy

Our Products
GeoWebCacheGeoServer
GeoBatch
GeoNetwork
MapStore
Ingest & Preprocess
Metadata Maps & Data Tiles & KML
Mashups, Mobile
Data & Styles
WMS
Metadata

Industries we cover
Constructions
& Engineering
Real Estate
Smart
Mobility
Smart Cities
Earth
Observation
Meteorology
&
Oceanography
Defence
Natural
Resources
Emergency
Response
OpenData PA &
Government
Utilities
Oil&Gas
Cultural
Heritage
TelecomEducation

Before we start
 Software House (SME)
 Core technologies are Open Source
 Based in Italy but Clients Worldwide
 Clients are both PAs as well as private
companies (both large as well as small)
 We cover many sectors
 We don’t do science but software engineering
 We work for/with scientists
 Our perspective can be limited but still valuable

Is there room for innovation?

Innovation
 “Innovation can be viewed as the application of
new or better solutions that meet new
requirements, inarticulated needs, or existing
market needs” [wikipedia]
 Innovation is driven by*
 Needs not (completely) satisfied
 Availability good amount of money (one way or the
other)
 Availability of bright minds
*Simone Giannecchini, 2013

Challenging World

Thriving Market
 Mature, Niche but thriving market
 “Expected to grow worldwide to $ 10.6 Billion
by 2015, CAGR over 10% in 2012/16”
 More Facts
 PlanetLabs raised total 163M $
 SkyBox acquired by Goole for 500M $
 MapBox raised total 63M $ while ESRI keeps
growing at 5% rate
 Budgets are shrinking but there is room for
disruptive innovation
 1st law of geography: "Everything is related to
everything else, but near things are more related than
distant things.” (Waldo Tobler)

Trends, Challenges and Buzzwords

Hot Topics and Buzzwords
 BigData
 OpenData LinkedData
 Cloud Scalability, On Demand Processing, e-Collaboration, VRE
 Crowdsourcing (VGI) OpenStreetMap, OpenTraffic, users-as-
sensors
 IoT M2M, Sensor Web, Connected Cars
 Interoperability data discovery, data fusion
 3D lidar, BIM
 Nanosatellites, Drones
 Mobile AR, 3D, Personal LBS
 Open Source
 Smart Cities
 Indoor LBS
 and many more (neogeography, data journalism, smartgrid, etc…)

OpenData
 "Data is truly open if it is technically open (available
in a machine-readable standard format, which means
it can be retrieved and meaningfully processed by a
computer application) and legally open (explicitly
licensed in a way that permits commercial and non-
commercial use and re-use without
restrictions)" [World Bank Group].
 We have never had so much data available
 OpenStreetMap, Landsat 8, Sentinel, USGS, NOAA,
you-name-it
 And more OpenData is coming!
 2nd ed. OpenData Barometer “..under 8 percent of countries
surveyed by the World Wide Web Foundation make available
datasets on useful information…”

OpenData
 Challenges ahead of us
 (Re)use
 Quality
 Licensing
 Update
 Archiving (storage)
 Preservation
 Accessibility (API, Formats,…)
 Linking
 Processing
 Step 1 (data release) is there
 Step 2 (data reuse) is there?

CrowdSourcing - VGI
 “The widespread engagement of large
numbers of private citizens, often with little
in the way of formal qualifications in the
creation of geographic information”
 Participation is exploding

CrowdSourcing - VGI
 Users as sensors (mobile agents)
 Huge opportunity for Industry and Research
 Advanced Situational Awareness
 Near Real-time data
 Lowering Price of data acquisition
 Data quality assurance
 Privacy Concerns
 Data mining
 Usability
 Citizen Science 2,0
 Quality and Privacy needs
attention

IoT
 A (scary) tale

IoT

IoT
 Synergies and Overlaps
 Cloud
 BigData
 OpenData
 Mobile (crowdsensing)
 3D
 Interoperability
 Earth Observation
 Tremendous innovation potential
 Tremendous projected economic impact

Game of Drones
 Space and Sky have never been so busy
 Drones, UAVs
 PlanetLabs Flock 1
 28 satellites (Doves) 4 Kg each plans for hundreds
 capture high-resolution (3-5m) whole-Earth
images nearly continuously
 SkyBox Imaging
 SkySat nanosatellites
 capture HD video clips
 ESA Sentinel
 Landsat 8

Game of Drones
 Benefits
 Unprecendented variety of sources
 Unprecendented amount of data available
 Unprecendented refresh time
 Challenges
 Archiving
 Processing
 Fusion & Dissemination
 Synergies
 OpenData  ESA with Sentinel 2 data
 Cloud  Landsat 8 on Amazon AWS
 Open Source  see what NGA is doing,
 IoT

Game of Drones
 «The earth observation business is not all
about resolution and accuracy but about
how soon you can provide the images and
what intelligence you can extract from the
data» Bernhard Brenner Head of GeoInt Airbus

It’s a Mobile World
 7.45 Bn mobile device VS 7.2 Bn human
beings
 Iphone6 CPU 625x more powerful than 1995
Intel Pentium: “Everyone has a supercomputer in its
pocket”
 4Bn phones every 2 y VS 1.6BN PCs
 Half of the time spent online in US today is
from apps  Mobile is ending Microsoft dominance
 Mobile First is a must-have
 Users are sensors
 Huge opportunity for industry and research
 Also threat to privacy

It’s a Mobile World
 Geospatial services need to consider: “the
other end of the spectrum has customers
who do not use laptops and computers.
They use cell phones and tablets.”
Ola Rollen, President and CEO, Hexagon AB
http://issuu.com/geospatialworld/docs/geospatial-world-annual-
edition-january-2013

Cloud
 The Cloud is everywhere commodity rather than
tech trend
 We have never had so much
 Processing power
 Storage Space
 Bandwidth
 Are we exploiting all this? No(t entirely)
 Challenges
 Requires Mental Shift
 Horizontal Scaling is hard
 Porting legacy applications is hard
 Costs

Cloud
 Success Stories
 MapBox
 CartoDb
 ArcGIS Online
 OpenStreetMap
 Trimble Data Marketplace
 Like for millennials, growing at the right
time helps a lot with new technologies!
 Open Source Tools are leading the run
 Cloud Compute: Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hazelcast
 Cloud Automation: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc..
 Cloud Provision: OpenStack, XEN, Opennebula

3D
 3D has been around for a while
 Technology was there
 Real needs where kind of missing
 Things are changing
 BIM CityGML, Smart Cities, Urban Planning
 Connected Constructions
 Smart Utilities & Infrastructure
 LiDAR
 Synergies with AR and Mobile
 Sensor Web
 Concrete use cases are driving innovation
 But widespread adoption is not there yet…

BigData
 How do we make sense of all that we said
so far?
 BigData 4Vs
 Volume petabytes datasets are not uncommon
 Variety mixing heterogeneous data sources
 Velocity data is ingested and process in near real-time
 Veracity should we trust the content of tweets?
 (Value extract valuable information from the mass amount)
 How can turn huge data into actionable
information?
The key point is Value
 Applications are endless

BigData
 The tools are there and quite mature we just
need to exploit them properly
 Hadoop, Spark
 R, PIG, Hive
 MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra
 Nevertheless Mass Exploitation of BigData
technologies is still somewhat lacking due
to complexity of tools
 Success Stories are there….
 Twitter
 Facebook
 Linkedin
 Google

Open Source has won (?)

Interoperability
 …capability to communicate, execute programs or transfer
data among different functional units in a manner which
requires the user to have little or no knowledge of the unique
characteristics of those units
 …seamless exchange of information and procedures
between different organizations employing public, wellknown
standard protocols and interfaces.
 It’s about the protocols not the formats!
 De Facto standards VS Mandated
Standards GeoJSON vs GML
 Key Bodies: OGC, ISO, W3C, OASIS, etc…
 Open Source is leading the interoperability
race

Interoperability
 The world is split in 2
 EU is fond for standards INSPIRE
 US is fond for «Getting things done!» MapBox, ESRI
 while REST is new, OGC is old
 and GIS is dead!
 there is Strong Interest from many
communities
 Military, Aviation, MetOc, Constructions , Utilities
 Are we reintroducing information SILOS
and vendor lockin?
 with a pinch of opennes

Interoperability
 Being able to push data in (cloud) service X
using N other cloud services with data in M
formats is not interoperability!
 Did I say It’s about the protocols not the
formats?
 Sometimes we have to step back to move
forward
 I wish it was always that simple

Take Aways
 We are living 4th Maps Revolution*
1. John Snow 1854
2. ESRI 1980
3. Google Maps/Earth 2000
4. Data Visualization and Real Time 2015
 We are going to have geo data as never
before
 in a Timely Fashion
 at High Resolution
 from a huge variety of sources
 mostly free and open
* Quote from Javier de la Torre –CartoDB Founder and CEO

Take Aways
 The Cloud is ready for being abused
 Archiving and Storage
 Computing Resources
 Bandwidth Resources
 Mobile has won the battle
 People consume and generate content on the spot,
on the go
 The need for speed and performance is tremendous
 Information Silos are coming back, in a
rather insidious way
 Facebook, Linkedin, Google, everyone is trying to
trap us into enormous silos
 and sometimes we are even paying for it!

Take Aways
 The challenge is now about:
1. How quickly we can deliver added value info
 Timeliness, Freshness and Performance
2. How much sense we can make of the data we
have  Fusion, Mining, Correlation
3. Our ability to convey the right amount of
information in the right way  Dissemination,
Subscription Platforms, Mobile First Apps, Data
Visualization
4. Our ability to balance privacy concerns with
need for more data
 All this applies to both industry and
research
 at least IMHO 

The End
Thanks for not sleeping (loud)!
simone.giannecchini@geo-solutions.it

GeoServer
 GeoSpatial enterprise gateway
Java Enterprise
Management and Dissemination of raster
and vector data
 Standards compliant
OGC WCS 1.0, 1.1.1 (RI), 2.0.1
OGC WFS 1.0, 1.1 (RI), 2.0
OGC WMS 1.1.1, 1.3
OGC WPS 1.0.0
 A ton of Extension available
 Google Earth/Maps support
KML, GeoSearch, etc.

GeoWebCache
 Tile Oriented Geospatial Cache
Java Enterprise
Maps Acceleration ( 10x to 100x )
 Standards compliant
OGC WMS 1.1.1, WMTS 1.0
TMS
WMS-C
 Google Earth/Maps support
 Stand-Alone or Integrated in GeoServer

MapStore
 Create, Manage, Share Stunning Maps easily
 Mashing-up various sources of data
 Inject markers and tracks with custom pop-up
 Embed in existing sites and portal
 Use it as a complete geoportal solution
 Android Mobile Client

Indoor LBS
 Indoor LBS

GeoNetwork
 (GeoSpatial) Catalog
 Registry of Metadata
 Repository
 Enterprise Search Appliance
 GeoPortal
 SDI entry point
 Information Broker
 Metadata Editor
 Standards Based
 Implemented with Java Enterprise technologies

SmartCities
 Smart Cities

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