Open InteroperabilityFrom Concepts to Practical Reality

Bart Hoogenraad

Global Marketing Director

Intergraph Mapping & Geospatial Solutions

Topics

The State of our Industry today

The Importance of Industry Standards

Getting Started

GML relay

The State of Our Industry Today

The State of the Industry Today

Geospatial Data is a true treasure chest for organizations

It is still a largely unutilized resource

Many formats, different data models Several databases, tiles, files Distributed!

The Reality

An Organization’s Effectiveness Greatly Depends on Its Ability to Share Information!

Policy

PlanningPlanning

OperationsOperations

CustomersCustomers

GIS SpecialistsGIS Specialists

A Major Challenge to the Industry

Data AvailabilityThe right information

At the right time

In the right form

The Vision

Web Services and OPEN exchange formats like GML are the key to information sharing

because of the distributed nature of the data.

Industry Standardsare Key

Geospatial Technology and IT must converge Remove proprietary barriers Migrate stovepipe solutions

Industry must make an investment in standards Spatial Data Infrastructure Metadata Data access and interoperability Data warehousing Data management and storage Data distribution Application interoperability

Setting Industry Standards

Is the joint responsibility of:

SOFTWARE VENDORS, because they can create the required technology

USERS, because they can ask for industry standard based solutions

DATA PROVIDERS, because they can publish their data in open interoperability standards

Getting Started

Think Big

Start Small

Get Feedback

Scale Quickly

Deliver Value

Thinking Big

As the only software vendor that is an OGC Strategic member we participate in more than half of the OGC initiatives including:

Open Web Services OWS 1.2 Open Location Services Critical Infrastructure CIPI-1 GISD-ICP pilot South Africa Conformance Testing - CITE

Starting Small…

GeoMedia Technology

Adding functionality:

GML read-only data server (validated for GML from know data providers)

GML export command WMS adaptor WFS adaptor (available on request)

Intergraph Open Interoperability Grant

Announced during the GSDI 6 conference

$5.5 million pledged to Advance Open Interoperability

Harnessing OGC industry standards

Enabling development of Open Web Services

Making geospatial information available through GML

Enterprise-wide Benefits:

Expanded interoperability Improved information and communication

Everybody can apply

www.intergraph.com/gis/ogc/interop.asp

wmsviewer.com

Public site for anyone’s use, built by Intergraph

Providing a viewer to OGC-defined WMS standard interfaces

Signifying our commitment to open standards and OGC

Putting a face and use to data interoperability

Demonstrating the power of open access through the web

Everybody can join..

http://www.wmsviewer.com/

DEPHA datafrom Nairobi

Relief and roadsfrom USA

Tanzania Districtsfrom USA

Tanzania Land Coverfrom Dar es Salaam

Deliver Value…

What value?

Better data = Better decisions = Better business

Open = More Choices, Better Choices

Solutions = Productivity

Enterprise = Return on Investment

Sharing data 1 = Sharing costs and investments

Sharing data 2 = Making information available

Let’s stop thinking GIS product - centric!

Geospatial Sphere of Influence

Where we began:- GIS centric

What we should achieve:- Information centric

GML Relay

“The purpose of the event is to show that interoperability based

on the exchange of GML documents works.“

Van Oosterom

Let’s get started…