CeBIT Spatial@gov 2012 - Maurits van der Vlugt, Spatial Information Strategist, Mercury Project Solutions

CANTERBURY PLUGFEST:

Geospatial Interoperability Works!

Maurits van der Vlugt

Mercury Project Solutions

Richard Murcott | Geospatial Standards Leader

New Zealand Geospatial Office

Overview

� Background

� Data Sharing Challenges

� Solution: a Plugfest!

� Should you consider hosting one yourself?

Kyle Dow, Senior Data Analyst, Corporate Data Team, CCC

2010-11 Christchurch Earthquakes

�4 Sept. 20107.1 magnitude

�22 February 20116.3 magnitude

- 185 dead

- NZ’s costliest disaster

Post Feb 2011 – Recovery Period

� Council Systems Intact!

� Data Sharing

� Council

� EM Agencies

� Civil Defence

� Utilities

� Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

� Environment Canterbury (ECAN)

� Etc5

� Initially: Sneakernet5

Kyle Dow, Senior Data Analyst, Corporate Data Team, CCC

Next step: Interoperable Supply

Wait: Death by Acronym!

WFS:

Web Feature Service

Kyle Dow, Senior Data Analyst, Corporate Data Team, CCC

Next step: Interoperable Supply

Kyle Dow, Senior Data Analyst, Corporate Data Team, CCC

WFS for Data Supply Works

Kyle Dow, Senior Data Analyst, Corporate Data Team, CCC

Next step: Receiving Data?

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Same Issues, but/

� Christchurch City holds

Authoritative Data, e.g5

� WasteWater

� Building Status

� Construction partners manually

submit data in variety of formats

� Time & Money wasted on data

loading & management

� WFS has no capability to receive

updates through interoperable web

services

Transactional Web Service: WFS-T

� WFS: Geometry & Attributes - “Read Only”

� WFS-T: As WFS + “Create, Update, Delete”

� CCC + Partners struggled to successfully

enable WFS-T

� OGC compliance of their Software?

� Schema harmonisation?

� “Too hard” basket?

What they needed:

� Transactional Interoperability between

recovery partners:

� CERA, CCC, SCIRT

� ESRI, Integraph

� OGC Standards (NZGO SDI Cookbook)

� Practical, short-term solution (can’t wait)

� Focus on issues with existing (OGC)

standards interfaces, notably WFS-T

� Immediate results that will accelerate

recovery & reconstruction efforts

Solution: WFS-T Plugfest

� Short Duration

� Collaborative

� Hands-on

� Independent Facilitation & WFS-T Architect

� “Just Make it Work”

� Two Use-Case

scenarios

� Set-up Data and

Services

� Implement end-to-

end Interoperability

� Live Demo

� All in 3 days!

Technology Agnostic

Organisation Technologies

CCC Intergraph GeoMedia Pro

Intergraph GeoMedia WebMap

SCIRT ESRI ArcGIS Server

ESRI ArcGIS Desktop

Safe Software – FME

WFS ‘Pump script’

CERA Benoli Silverfish

ESRI GeoDatabase

WFS ‘Pump script’

InsureCorp* Pitney Bowes Software MapInfo

Professional

* fictitious name to protect any commercial interests

Before and After

Lessons Learned

� Interoperability works!

� WFS: Mature

� COTS WFS-T Servers: Mature

� COTS WFS-T Clients: Maturing

�WFS/WFS-T Schema Sensitive

� Good Community Schema is important

�Submitting to WFS-T requires scripting

or Client plug-ins

Conclusions

� Plugfest model is highly

effective to achieve hands-on

practical interoperability

� Demonstrated viable solution

architecture with immediate

business benefits

� Achieved in 3-day Plugfest,

what would have taken weeks

(effort) or months (elapsed)

otherwise

THANK YOU

More Information:http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/christchurch-plugfest-2012-report

Maurits van der Vlugt

[email protected]

Twitter: @mvandervlugt

Richard Murcott

[email protected]