1 Smart Maps for the United Nations, with the United Nations Hidenori 2023-12-01T15:30/15:50 (20 min.) @Vium Hall FOSS4G Asia 2023 Closing Ceremony 

UN Smart Maps Group (SMG) 1. 7th Domain Working Group under UN Open GIS Initiative. Ø The initiative is to identify and develop an open-source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations. 2. A volunteer group of engineers, educators, and students, among others. 3. Open community of practice. Ø Do-ocracy which is common in open-source software community. 4. We define Smart Maps as application of modern web map technologies for informed decision. 5. Vision: keep web maps open for a better world. 6. Mission: test new technologies for future geospatial operations. 2 

UN Open GIS Initiative 3 

UN Open GIS Initiative The UN Open GIS Initiative is an ongoing Partnership Initiative for Technology in Peacekeeping of United Nations Department of Operational Support. It has been running by the United Nations Geospatial in the Office of Information and Communications Technology, since March 2016. 4 

UN Open GIS Initiative 5 https://operationalsupport.un.org/en/partnership-initiatives 

UN Smart Maps Group (SMG) 1. 7th Domain Working Group under UN Open GIS Initiative. Ø The initiative is to identify and develop an open-source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations. 2. A volunteer group of engineers, educators, and students, among others. 3. Open community of practice. Ø Do-ocracy which is common in open-source software community. 4. We define Smart Maps as application of modern web map technologies for informed decision. 5. Vision: keep web maps open for a better world. 6. Mission: test new technologies for future geospatial operations. 6 

Hidenori @hfu • Director, Research Planning, Geography and Crustal Dynamics Research Center, Geospatial Information Authority of Japan • GSI Maps https://maps.gsi.go.jp/ • Address data development and standardization • Mission: Promote partnership through geospatial information. • Vision: Create a world where map engineers prosper. • Have been participating in open-source software with “for own use” model. 7 

History • 2016: UN Open GIS Initiative Ø Started a base web map toolkit project as a contribution from a mapping agency. Ø Thanks to my chief Mr. Eom Kyoung-Soo of UN Geospatial Information Section. • 2018: UN Vector Tile Toolkit (under DWG4) Ø An open-source toolkit to produce, host, style and optimize base map vector tiles. Ø Thanks to our DWG chair Prof. Li Ki-Joune. • 2022: UN Smart Maps Group (as DWG7) Ø Participants bring their objectives: base maps, 3D, LLMs, documentation, etc. 8 

The problem I was facing • I wanted to keep web maps open. • Because our clients deserves the best, within our limited resources. • Because no single map can meet all requirements. Many maps should be available on the Web. • Because custom requirements, such as security, cost recovery arrangements, should be met. • I’ve got friends to help. 9 

@yuiseki • Prototyping application of Large Language Models (LLMs) for human-map-interface: Smart Maps Agent. • Testing open source LLMs for future use. 10 

@smellman • Leading Core tool collection maintenance. • Capacity building with participants to JICA knowledge co-creation programs. 11 

@albertkun • Leading Communication and Community strategy • https://unopengis.github.io/smartmaps 12 

Communications and Community strategy • Smart Maps Group website https://unopengis.github.io/smartmaps • Monthly meetings – for Pacific time zones. • Weekly meetings – 30 minutes every Tuesday. 13 Open License ↓ Open Practice ↓ Open Community 

@mapconcierge & @ShogoHirasawa UNVT Portable: Web maps on Raspberry Pi for capacity building and portable use. 14 

@miya0001, @JinIgarashi, and friends Charites: YAML syntax for style.json of MapLibre, letting style.json ‘buildable’. 15 

@ubukawa A great developer / learner / tutor. Blog entries both in English and Japanese. 16 

@office-shirado Quickly combined open cloud-native data in a simple web map. 2 ministries, 1 agency, 1 authority. Land and House Investigator. 17 

UN Smart Maps Bazaar • My contribution to UN Smart Maps Group. • Mission: Unlimited import, portable anywhere. • Host cloud-native geospatial data data on InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) 18 

Classic web 19 server client 

Classic web 20 server client 

Classic web – scaling 21 server client 

Minimum IPFS with a gateway 22 node client gateway 

Clients accessing a gateway 23 node client gateway 

Nodes connected to a gateway 24 node client gateway 

Geographically distributed nodes 25 node client gateway 

A new gateway for new clients 26 node client gateway 

Portable Web Maps (PWM) 27 node client gateway 

PWM with clients in local network 28 node client gateway 

Scaling by adding nodes 29 node client gateway 

Adding Contents Delivery Network (CDN) 30 node client gateway 

Bring your data with your node 31 node client gateway 

Implementation 32 node client gateway 

Implementation 33 

Smart Maps Bazaar repositories https://github.com/unopengis/smb: concept and documentation https://github.com/unopengis/smbc: configurations and commands 34 A Cairo Bazaar by Adrien Dauzats, 1839 

“Nagasaki Point Cloud visualization” Open LAS data released by Nagasaki prefecture. 400GB of 3D Tiles, produced using py3dtiles, hosted on Smart Maps Bazaar. 35 

“Platoon” 3D Tiles from Project PLATEAU. Hosted on UN Smart Maps Bazaar. Digital Twin can be personal, yet to be optimized. 36 

“c2” Topographic map of whole Japan in PMTiles and on IPFS, thus in a microSD 37 

Adopt Geodata 38 adopt open geospatial data into cloud-native. 222 repositories as of 2023-11-25. 

Open Community helping Secured Data 39 We test new open-source technologies with open data. Secured Data Open Community Open Data We transfer technology and respect secured data. 

How to join UN Smart Maps • Commit on GitHub. • The best way known to work. • Anyone can join. • Community Sprints • Meetups 40 https://github.com/unopengis/7/issues 

Start by saying hello 41 

Potential new areas 1. Smarter UI 2. Digital Twin 3. Metaverse 4. Multilingualization with open source LLMs 5. CNN-based feature extraction with TensorFlow 6. Sensor integration 42 

Conclusion UN Smart Maps Group • combine efforts for the United Nations and for ourselves simultaneously. • collaborate openly. We welcome contribution from anyone. • test new technologies for the future. We all are already combining efforts by promoting Open Source Software. Let’s keep web maps open. Appreciate openness. Let’s combine efforts. 43 

Thank you! 44