Geography 911: NeoGeography
GIS 2.0 and Software Toolkits
Joshua S. Campbell – 23 February 2010
Biography
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PhD Candidate
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Built the Cyberinfrastructure system at KARS/KBS
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GIS 2.0: Definition, Implications for Humanitarian Information
Management, Disruptive Strategy for Implementation
4th year of the project
Web mapping core, metadata portal, dynamic HTML redesign
Humanitarian Intelligence Analyst
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Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU), U.S. Department of State
NeoGeography
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Does it really exist?
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Began as an expression of Web 2.0 applied to maps
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AJAX, JavaScript APIs, RSS
Craigslist mashup / Chicago Crime Maps *
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Democratization of geographic tools
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Web Developers discovered Geography…
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What about Geographers discovering the Web?
What is Web 2.0?
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“a transformative force that’s compelling companies
across all industries towards a new way of doing business
characterized by harnessing collective intelligence,
openness, and network effects”
--Tim O’Reilly
What is a GIS?
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A digital representation of the earth, structured to
support analysis (Dobson, 2007)
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Automated systems for the collection, storage,
retrieval, analysis, and display of spatial data (Clarke, 1995)
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Should also include dissemination
Composed on software, hardware, and people
GIS 2.0: A Reformulation
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Free and Open Source Software
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Web 2.0 philosophy
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collective intelligence, network effects, openness
Internet as a platform
Open Standards
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Interoperability
GIS 2.0: A Reformulation
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Ubiquitous communication
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Device convergence
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Widespread wired and wireless networks (voice and data)
Mobile devices increasing in power and functionality
Phone, camera, GPS, form-based database input, cellular, wifi
Cloud computing
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SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
Network-driven commoditization of IT
Swift River – Crowdsource the filter
Open Street Map – Haiti Edits Video
http://vimeo.com/9182869
GeoStacks
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Process Driven
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Essentially the same process
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GIS + Web Publishing
Neogeography
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Capture
Produce
Communicate
Aggregate
Consume
GIS
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Collect
Store / Retrieve
Analyze
Visualize
Disseminate
GIS 2.0: Dissemination
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Multiple tiers of users
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Web mapping applications
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GeoCommons Finder!
Geography 911 Project
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Goal: Design and implement a neogeography application that
allows users to access, input, and modify spatially relevant data
on a map of the University of Kansas Lawrence campus.
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Scope:... provides to the community the means to share
geotagged content and geographic data from multiple locations
in multiple formats on the internet.
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Content and data can be uploaded into or embedded on individual
layers then be displayed on a map of the Lawrence campus.
Examples of content may include photos, videos, text comments,
vector-style locations (such as routes and “push-pins”), or user
information
Project Architecture (Input)
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How do people get data into the system?
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Data Collection
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On-screen digitize, SMS, email, forms
How to capture existing authoritative data?
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RSS, geocode
Storage / Retrieval
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Leverage geographic nature of data requires spatial data types
PostGIS::ArcSDE
Project Architecture (Output)
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Once data is in the system, how do people interact with the
information?
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Visualize
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Web Map Server (GeoServer, MapServer::ArcGIS Server)
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Map Window (OpenLayers: :ESRI JavaScript or Flex, Google)
Widgets (GeoExt::ESRI JavaScript (Dojo) or Flex)
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Styling (SLD, MAP files::ArcMap)
(Layers, Queries, Analysis, Draw tools…)
Base Layer Data (Open Street Map::ESRI, Google, Microsoft)
Storage / Retrieval
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SQL statements for user queries
Spatial analysis functions intrinsic to spatial database
Project Architecture (Output)
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Once data is in the system, how do people interact with
the information?
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Disseminate
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Publish data in a several different formats
Web Services (OGC), KML, CSV, text….
RSS, SMS, email updates