There’s lots of people watching.
About me
name=Glenn Plasoperator=free willwomen=3children=2twins=1occupation=build solid solutionshobbies=aikido;reading;programming openstreetmaps;snowboardemployer=mecompany:name=BitLess ; CoolDevOps.comcontact:twitter=glenn_plascontact:[email protected]
Over 554(*) Gigabyte (GB) = 594 852 970 500 Bytes
How much gold exactly?
* Growing every second
“The sum of the personal interest of all”
API• OverPass• Nominatim• Routing engines
Buildings blocks• Tile servers ( renderd, tirex, tileman, mapnik )• Foreign API's ( Open / Private , webservices )• Libraries ( LeafLet , OpenLayers )
Unfold the right tool to leverage
PowertoolsGis software (QGIS)•Editors ( JOSM )•PosgreSQL / spatial enabled DB's•
“When you open up the data, there’s no limit to what people can do. It engages the imagination of
citizens in building the city.”
-David Miller, Mayor of Toronto.Toronto 2.0: Data Sharing SourceThe Globe and Mail, 09-01-31
Consume ( build stuff )• Commercial (for Startups, as alternative, supporting role )• Academic ( research, statistics, educational )• Government ( improving GIS services, promote OD use )
Care (give a stuff)• Promote use :
Government
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Try / Use it!
Contribute (donate stuff)• Map / Validate•
People
Businesses
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• Allow & Suggest, encourage usage
Garden• Invest ( resources, money, time )
Dare to experiment (mock it up!)•
• Legislative • Cultural
• Too much data • Real time vs historic • Definitions / references
• Limited skills and over specialisation
Some challenges ahead
• Privacy
Open Systems Make Failure Free.* paraphrasing Clay Shirky.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/1308955915/
Attribution / Sources / Credits / Inspiration / thanks / ©
Jeff Lawson, Twilio - http://www.slideshare.net/twilio/we-are-software-people-jeff-lawson-api-strategy-conference
Traffic layer live concept map - http://m.bitless.be/
Timemap BIN incidents (delayed) - http://m.bitless.be/time.html
ArcelorMittal – providing site layout data
Openstreetmap - ODbL - © OpenStreetMap contributors.
FlightGear - http://www.flightgear.org/
Flight radar - http://www.flightradar24.com/RYR753Q/590daea
Andrew Stott - UK Transparency Board and first Director of data.gov.uk
Prof. Peter Fisk – [email protected] @GeniusWorks
Census data - http://global.census.okfn.org/
Frank Weyns - Director Sales Engineering EMEA at Mirantis
Jennifer Bell – Benefits of open government data - http://www.slideshare.net/jenniferbell/benefits-of-open-government-data