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Where Next - The Future of GIS

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Transcript

  1. Where Next? The Future of GIS James Fee WeoGeo

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  14. Neogeography: Geographical techniques and tools used for personal activities or

    for utilization by a non-expert group of users; not formal or analytical. Andrew Turner
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  22. Crowdsourcing

  23. Michael Goodchild

  24. Michael Goodchild VG I

  25. Volunteered Michael Goodchild Geographic Information

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  28. Citizen Participation San Diego Fires

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  30. Stacks

  31. Microsoft IIS Microsoft .NE T Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Server

    2008 Microsoft Windows Apache Perl, PHP or Python MySQL or PostgreSQL Linux Server Linux

  32. Microsoft IIS Microsoft .NE T Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Server

    2008 Microsoft Windows Apache Perl, PHP or Python MySQL or PostgreSQL Linux Server Linux WINS

  33. Microsoft IIS Microsoft .NE T Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Server

    2008 Microsoft Windows Apache Perl, PHP or Python MySQL or PostgreSQL Linux Server Linux WINS LAMP/LAPP

  34. Microsoft Windows Linux

  35. Microsoft Windows Linux Solution Stacks

  36. Microsoft Windows Linux Solution Stacks

  37. OpenLayers/ WMS/WFS GDAL/OGR, GEOS PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS MapServer or GeoServer

    OSGeo ArcGIS Server APIs ArcObjects ArcSDE (Geodatabase) ArcGIS Server ESRI

  38. OpenLayers/ WMS/WFS GDAL/OGR, GEOS PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS MapServer or GeoServer

    OSGeo ArcGIS Server APIs ArcObjects ArcSDE (Geodatabase) ArcGIS Server ESRI

  39. OpenLayers/ WMS/WFS GDAL/OGR, GEOS PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS MapServer or GeoServer

    OSGeo ArcGIS Server APIs ArcObjects ArcSDE (Geodatabase) ArcGIS Server ESRI

  40. OpenLayers/ WMS/WFS GDAL/OGR, GEOS PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS MapServer or GeoServer

    OSGeo ArcGIS Server APIs ArcObjects ArcSDE (Geodatabase) ArcGIS Server ESRI

  41. OpenLayers/ WMS/WFS GDAL/OGR, GEOS PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS MapServer or GeoServer

    OSGeo ArcGIS Server APIs ArcObjects ArcSDE (Geodatabase) ArcGIS Server ESRI ESRI Stack

  42. OpenLayers/ WMS/WFS GDAL/OGR, GEOS PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS MapServer or GeoServer

    OSGeo ArcGIS Server APIs ArcObjects ArcSDE (Geodatabase) ArcGIS Server ESRI ESRI Stack

  43. OpenLayers/ WMS/WFS GDAL/OGR, GEOS PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS MapServer or GeoServer

    OSGeo ArcGIS Server APIs ArcObjects ArcSDE (Geodatabase) ArcGIS Server ESRI ESRI Stack

  44. OpenLayers/ WMS/WFS GDAL/OGR, GEOS PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS MapServer or GeoServer

    OSGeo ArcGIS Server APIs ArcObjects ArcSDE (Geodatabase) ArcGIS Server ESRI ESRI Stack

  45. OpenLayers/ WMS/WFS GDAL/OGR, GEOS PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS MapServer or GeoServer

    OSGeo ArcGIS Server APIs ArcObjects ArcSDE (Geodatabase) ArcGIS Server ESRI ESRI Stack OSGeo Stack

  46. OpenLayers/ WMS/WFS PostgreSQL w/ PostGIS ArcGIS Server ArcSDE (Geodatabase) ArcObjects

    Mixed Stack

  47. Where Next?

  48. Where Next?

  49. Where Next?

  50. Where Next?

  51. Where Next?

  52. Where Next?

  53. Where Next?

  54. Where Next?

  55. Where Next?

  56. Where Next?

  57. Where Next? RESTful

  58. Where Next? RESTful

  59. Where Next? RESTful

  60. Where Next? RESTful

  61. Where Next? RESTful

  62. Where Next?

  63. Where Next?

  64. Where Next?

  65. Where Next?

  66. Where Next?

  67. Where Next?

  68. Where Next?

  69. Where Next?

  70. Where Next?

  71. Where Next?

  72. Where Next?

  73. The Future

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  75. Just give me a shapefile

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  77. phoenix.shp phoenix.shx phoenix.dbf

  78. phoenix.shp phoenix.shx phoenix.dbf phoenix.prj phoenix.shp.xml

  79. phoenix.shp phoenix.shx phoenix.dbf phoenix.prj phoenix.shp.xml phoenix.sbn phoenix.sbx phoenix.ain phoenix.aih phoenix.ixs

    phoenix.mxs phoenix.atx phoenix.cpg

  80. phoenix.shp phoenix.shx phoenix.dbf phoenix.prj phoenix.shp.xml phoenix.sbn phoenix.sbx phoenix.ain phoenix.aih phoenix.ixs

    phoenix.mxs phoenix.atx phoenix.cpg
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  85. Can We Come Up With a Standard?

  86. What would work?

  87. What would work? open database

  88. What would work? open database open symbology

  89. What would work? open database open symbology OGC support

  90. What would work? open database open symbology OGC support platform

    support

  91. ESRI’s File Geodatabase

  92. ESRI’s File Geodatabase

  93. So just give me a File Geodatabase

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  97. So we need an open spatial database format

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  101. I really want to get me some of that!

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  103. ‣ All the benefits of Shapefiles ‣ Open ‣ Easy

    to use

  104. ‣ All the benefits of Shapefiles ‣ Open ‣ Easy

    to use ‣ None of the limitations ‣ Multiple files ‣ Limited field widths

  105. Problems with SQLite?

  106. •No support from ESRI Problems with SQLite?

  107. •No support from ESRI •Still not well known in the

    community Problems with SQLite?

  108. SpatiaLite

  109. SpatiaLite •Built on SQLite RDBMS

  110. SpatiaLite •Built on SQLite RDBMS •Just a file

  111. SpatiaLite •Built on SQLite RDBMS •Just a file •Portable -

    Works on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X

  112. SpatiaLite •Built on SQLite RDBMS •Just a file •Portable -

    Works on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X •Implements OGC Simple Features for SQL

  113. Community Driven Standards

  114. Community Driven Standards Users drive formats

  115. How do we share?

  116. Layer Package to the Rescue

  117. Layer Package to the Rescue

  118. What Works for the Layer Package

  119. What Works for the Layer Package •Compressed format shares well

  120. What Works for the Layer Package •Compressed format shares well

    •Includes symbology

  121. What Works for the Layer Package •Compressed format shares well

    •Includes symbology •Metadata and preview thumbnails

  122. What Works for the Layer Package •Compressed format shares well

    •Includes symbology •Metadata and preview thumbnails •Easy to create with ArcMap

  123. Problems with the Layer Package

  124. Problems with the Layer Package •Uses the closed ESRI Layer

    file for symbology

  125. Problems with the Layer Package •Uses the closed ESRI Layer

    file for symbology •Some files converted to closed File Geodatabase format

  126. Problems with the Layer Package •Uses the closed ESRI Layer

    file for symbology •Some files converted to closed File Geodatabase format •Undocumented

  127. We need symbology with our datasets

  128. Options:

  129. Options: SLD/SE

  130. CSS Options: SLD/SE

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  132. Put my symbology in a sidecar!

  133. phoenix.sqlite phoenix.css

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  135. phoenix.gpk

  136. Sharing data need not be hard

  137. Pay As You Go GIS

  138. Pay As You Go GIS Enable ArcInfo for ArcView users

  139. Pay As You Go GIS Enable ArcInfo for ArcView users

  140. Pay As You Go GIS Enable ArcInfo for ArcView users

    Pick and choose the best solutions

  141. Cloud-based Services

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  148. The future of GIS will give you freedom to collaborate

    with the world.

  149. Thank You James Fee email: [email protected] twitter: @cageyjames blog: http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com

    mobile: 480.225.2287