nuim14 - Speaker Deck

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Where: Next. A look into the future of GIS Richard Cantwell Senior GIS Consultant GAMMA [email protected] @ManAboutCouch

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

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From GPS tracks..

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..To Maps

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Automatically? labs.strava.com/slide/

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

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@philgyford

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www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2575515

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

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

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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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IaaS PaaS SaaS Transitioning to Services

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AWS Global Infrastructure

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

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Location: Ubiquitous for $1.50

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Sensor Web becoming a reality? CityWatch.ie

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Software: In Transition

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The future of desktop GIS? @billdollins

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Vendors iterating Desktop

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Vendors embedding GIS into platforms

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New technologies don’t solve deeper issues @nheudecker

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Best of Breed Solutions

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Browsers: Becoming more capable

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..mostly.

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Data Creation inside the Browser geojson.io

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Complex Spatial Operations jasondavies.com

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JavaScript & Python emerging as key D3js.org

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New Techniques earth.nullschool.net

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Code in the Open github.com/cambecc/earth

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GitHub: Distributed versioning and collaboration

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GitHub: GeoData rendering & sharing @BenBalter

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

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

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

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

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

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Data: From scarcity to abundance

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

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

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Vector Tiles: Client Side opensciencemap.org

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Cartography: A new Golden Age?

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

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No dataset is perfect

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Mapping isn't as easy as some thought

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Domain Knowledge still key @Thierry_G

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

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(Some) Data becoming a commodity Vs

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OSM as the OpenGeoData ‘Poster Child’ @PetersonGIS

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

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Opportunities: Postcodes

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

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geogit.org Challenges: Version Control for Spatial Data

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Challenges: Transient Data

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

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New Roles: The Spatial Data Librarian?

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New Skills: Coding becoming essential alex-singleton.com

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New users: Diversity flic.kr/p/ha2Z9b

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New bad maps @NBCNews

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

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GIS: A strong history and an exciting future Richard Cantwell Senior GIS Consultant GAMMA [email protected] @ManAboutCouch This presentation is available at: www.speakerdeck.com/manaboutcouch/nuim14