nuim14

An extended look at the future of GIS. Presented to NUIM Geography MSc class, 15th April 2014

Transcript

1. Where: Next. A look into the future of GIS
   Richard Cantwell
   Senior GIS Consultant GAMMA
   richard.cantwell@gamma.ie
   @ManAboutCouch
   

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2. The impact of change is often unforseen
   jdesbonnet.blogspot.ie/2011/06/day-gps-selective-availability-sa-was.html
   

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3. From GPS tracks..
   

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4. ..To Maps
   

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5. Automatically?
   labs.strava.com/slide/
   

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6. www.gartner.com
   Emerging Technologies ‘Hype Cycle’
   gartner.com
   

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7. @philgyford
   

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8. www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2575515
   

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9. Hardware, Software, Data & People
   https://flic.kr/p/b7stL4
   

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10. Hardware: Becoming a Commodity
    https://flic.kr/p/89BohQ
    

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11. Range of Cloud Providers
    Inspired by gigaom.com/2013/05/17/aws-is-the-mcdonalds-of-the-cloud-whos-the-burger-king/
    

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12. IaaS PaaS SaaS
    Transitioning to Services
    

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13. AWS Global Infrastructure
    

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14. Availability Zone Availability Zone
    SERVER
    INSTANCE
    SERVER
    INSTANCE
    http / ssl
    AWS Cloud
    SERVER
    INSTANCE
    SERVER
    INSTANCE
    Autoscaling Group
    Autoscaling Group
    Cloudwatch
    Elastic Load Balancer
    Users
    Internet
    A simple AWS example
    

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15. Internet
    NAT
    Server
    Amazon RDS
    SQL Server
    VPN
    ELB ELB
    Mapping
    ASG
    Spectrum
    ASG
    DynamoDB
    Amazon S3
    ELB
    Amazon SQS
    Batch Spot
    ASG
    Low/Hi ASG
    Complex Configuration. Hybrid Approaches
    Amazon S3
    DynamoDB
    ELB ELB ELB
    Reverse Proxy
    Routing ASG App ASG Spatial ASG
    Oracle 10g Postgres
    MDM Spatial Geocode
    

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16. • Design to take advantage of Cloud Efficiencies
    • Stop Hugging your Servers
    • Failure shouldn’t be a Drama
    • Use Multiple Availability Zones
    • Pay for what you Provision (not what you use)
    Lessons from the last 5 years
    

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17. Enterprise GIS in a few minutes..
    www.spatiallyadjusted.com/2013/12/23/using-postgis-on-amazon-rds-with-opengeo-suite/
    

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18. Location: Ubiquitous for $1.50
    

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19. Sensor Web becoming a reality?
    CityWatch.ie
    

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20. Software: In Transition
    

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21. The future of desktop GIS?
    @billdollins
    

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22. Vendors iterating Desktop
    

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23. Vendors embedding GIS into platforms
    

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24. New technologies don’t solve deeper issues
    @nheudecker
    

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25. Best of Breed Solutions
    

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26. Browsers: Becoming more capable
    

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27. ..mostly.
    

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28. Data Creation inside the Browser
    geojson.io
    

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29. Complex Spatial Operations
    jasondavies.com
    

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30. JavaScript & Python emerging as key
    D3js.org
    

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31. New Techniques
    earth.nullschool.net
    

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32. Code in the Open
    github.com/cambecc/earth
    

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33. GitHub: Distributed versioning and collaboration
    

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34. GitHub: GeoData rendering & sharing
    @BenBalter
    

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35. Eg: Reverse engineered FGDB
    github.com/rouault/dump_gdbtable
    

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36. Used as input to a .gdb → GeoJSON script
    github.com/calvinmetcalf/fileGDB.js
    

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37. ‘Drag and Drop’ site that renders GeoJSON
    calvinmetcalf.github.io/fileGDBjs
    

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38. GitHub as a learning resource
    github.com/lyzidiamond/learn-geojson
    

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39. Smart Tools: Dumb Formats
    flic.kr/p/4YMxp7
    

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40. Data: From scarcity to abundance
    

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41. ~500GB of raw .xml when uncompressed
    github.com/mapbox/tm2
    

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42. Vector Tiles: 'The Next Big Thing'?
    github.com/mapbox/tm2
    

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43. Vector Tiles: Client Side
    opensciencemap.org
    

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44. Cartography: A new Golden Age?
    

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45. Velocity, Variety, Volume & Veracity
    https:/flic.kr/p/5C9pZF
    

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46. No dataset is perfect
    

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47. Mapping isn't as easy as some thought
    

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48. Domain Knowledge still key
    @Thierry_G
    

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49. @GapingVoid / @FlowchainSensei
    Geography: Distilling Wisdom from Information
    Geography: Distilling Wisdom from Information
    

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50. (Some) Data becoming a commodity
    Vs
    

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51. OSM as the OpenGeoData ‘Poster Child’
    @PetersonGIS
    

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52. https://flic.kr/p/N9J81F
    Spatial Data moving to the Main Datastore
    

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53. Opportunities: Postcodes
    

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54. Challenges: Move up the Value Chain
    flic.kr/p/4wUhRb
    

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55. geogit.org
    Challenges: Version Control for Spatial Data
    

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56. Challenges: Transient Data
    

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57. https:/flic.kr/p/68NZhL
    People: Roles, Skills and Diversity
    

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58. New Roles: The Spatial Data Librarian?
    

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59. New Skills: Coding becoming essential
    alex-singleton.com
    

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60. New users: Diversity
    flic.kr/p/ha2Z9b
    

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61. New bad maps
    @NBCNews
    

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62. “Everything flows, nothing stands still”
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus
    

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63. GIS: A strong history and an exciting future
    Richard Cantwell
    Senior GIS Consultant GAMMA
    richard.cantwell@gamma.ie
    @ManAboutCouch
    This presentation is available at:
    www.speakerdeck.com/manaboutcouch/nuim14
    

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