Lowering Data Acquisition Costs and Raising Innovation Leveraging Public Domain andVolunteered Geographic Information

Richard Cantwell

www.geographic.ierichard@geographic.ie twitter.com/GeoGraphicIE

I Love Open Data, and here's why you should too..

Richard Cantwell

www.geographic.ierichard@geographic.ie twitter.com/GeoGraphicIE

Cartography.. Spatial Data.. GIS.. all changing.http://www.axismaps.com/typographic.php

New ways of visualising and exploring datahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4982034696/

New sources of GeoDatahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4672160490

New methods of extracting GeoDatahttp://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/flickr-as-a-paintbrush/

Social Networks a rich source

New Geographieshttp://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/urbantick/maps/london_ncl_100628.html

New Insights

New Technologieshttp://prettymaps.stamen.com/

Open Datahttp://www.oobrien.com/vis/bikes/

Augmented Reality Browserhttp://www.walkspace.org/namaland/

SRTMhttp://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/

http://labs.geofabrik.de/history

OpenStreetMap

Large Community, Rapid Growthhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats

www.osm-wms.de

Services & Capabilities Expanding

Vector Data - Cartographyhttp://maps.cloudmade.com/editor

Custom POI Mapshttp://www.lenz-online.de/cgi-bin/osm/osmpoinit.pl

OpenIrishMaphttp://www.technomancy.org/openirishmap/

Timelinesshttp://www.openstreetmap.org

Haiti OSM 11th Jan 2010http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264767/

Haiti OSM 14th Jan 2010http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264771

http://walking-papers.orgGPS Mapping on Paper

OSM in 3Dhttp://www.osm-3d.org

Data vs API

Publish data in web-standard format (that means XML, not PDF, XLS, DOC...)

Standards: INSPIRE, W3C, OGC.

Community: Plug into existing, attract new userbase.

Build it, Publicise it, Use it and they will come..

All dependent on Open Data & Standardshttp://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

www.GeoGraphic.ie