PublicaMundi

Scalable and Reusable Open Geospatial Data



Angelos Tzotsos, IMIS Athena

Scientific & Technical Manager

OSGeo Charter Member


Copernicus Big Data Workshop, Brussels, 13-14 March 2014


Genesis of the project


  • Consortium established on active research, commercial, and personal interactions
  • Consortium members are active contributors to Free and Open Source Geospatial Software
  • Idea based on practical experience (2010-) from geodata.gov.gr and our interaction with users,publishers and SMEs

Why PublicaMundi?


  • Imago Mundi
    • Image of the World, Babylonian world map
    • Maps, created by cartographers and geographers
  • PublicaMundi
    • Image of the World, based on Open Data
    • Maps, created by open knowledge and FOSS

Consortium


Athena IMIS
Rasdaman
Geolabs
GET

Athena

  • Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies
  • Non-profit, research organization, governed by public law
  • Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS)

Rasdaman

  • rasdaman GmbH
  • R&D centric SME, established in 2003 (MBO in 2010)
  • Areas of business: commercial support for rasdaman Array DBMS; consultancy on SDIs & standards
  • Geospatial World Innovation Award (2013)

GeoLabs

  • GeoLabs SARL
  • R&D centric SME focused on FLOSS GIS
  • Senegalease Land register (2007)
  • 3D module development for Terra Explorer (2008) in IGN 3D Geoportal
  • Development of the MapMint SDI using WPS, other OGC Web Services and OASIS

GET

  • Geospatial Enabling Technologies LtD
  • SME focused on GeoInformatics
  • Successful design and implementation of projects for public and private sector related to geospatial data production, management, curation, geospatial applications (desktop, mobile, web)
  • One of the first Greek private companies invested in Open Source GIS technology

Experiences and Problems

Reoccurring practical problems in open geospatial data reuse:


  • Data formats/CRS
  • Web maps
  • Interlink
  • Translations
  • Publishing
  • OGC/INSPIRE documents not for all

Goals

Research and develop methodologies, as well as scalable, reusable tools to facilitate:

  • the publication
  • discovery
  • and reuse




of open geospatial data


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Goals

  • Open data catalogues fully supporting publishing, curation and management lifecycle of geospatial data
  • Interlinking of geospatial data and multilinguality support in a cross-boundary context
  • Scalable technologies and services to create and reuse on-demand maps from open geospatial data
  • Analytics to accurately monitor the usage of open geospatial data
  • Scalable technologies and reusable data APIs supporting querying, processing, and analysis of open geospatial data

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)


  • It's a prerequisite for Big Data and Cloud Computing
  • Everybody uses FOSS today, even without knowing it


GNU OSS

CKAN

An abbreviation for “Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network”

Open Source web platform for publishing and sharing data with impressive deployment history:


PublicaMundi and FOSS

  • Based on CKAN open data catalogue
  • PublicaMundi will spatially extend CKAN using OGC standards
  • Development is based exclusively on the OSGeo stack

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

Since 2006 A Non Profit Umbrella for:

  • GeoSpatial Free and Open Source Software
  • Education
  • Open Data

OSGeo

OSGeoLive

  • GNU/Linux distribution
  • 60+ Open Source Geospatial Applications
  • Sample Datasets
  • Consistent Overviews & Quickstarts
  • Translations
  • Unfortunately Big Data do not fit on a 4GB DVD...

High level architecture


OGC standards and INSPIRE

  • Discovery Services
  • View Services
  • Download Services
  • Processing Services

Earth Observation Big Data

  • Integration with rasdaman
  • WCPS and WPS support

Architecture Overview


Thank you for your attention!


Questions?


http://publicamundi.eu