Open InteroperabilityFrom Concepts to Practical Reality
Bart Hoogenraad
Global Marketing Director
Intergraph Mapping & Geospatial Solutions
Topics
The State of our Industry today
The Importance of Industry Standards
Getting Started
GML relay
The State of Our Industry Today
The State of the Industry Today
Geospatial Data is a true treasure chest for organizations
It is still a largely unutilized resource
Many formats, different data models Several databases, tiles, files Distributed!
The Reality
An Organization’s Effectiveness Greatly Depends on Its Ability to Share Information!
Policy
PlanningPlanning
OperationsOperations
CustomersCustomers
GIS SpecialistsGIS Specialists
A Major Challenge to the Industry
Data AvailabilityThe right information
At the right time
In the right form
The Vision
Web Services and OPEN exchange formats like GML are the key to information sharing
because of the distributed nature of the data.
Industry Standardsare Key
Geospatial Technology and IT must converge Remove proprietary barriers Migrate stovepipe solutions
Industry must make an investment in standards Spatial Data Infrastructure Metadata Data access and interoperability Data warehousing Data management and storage Data distribution Application interoperability
Setting Industry Standards
Is the joint responsibility of:
SOFTWARE VENDORS, because they can create the required technology
USERS, because they can ask for industry standard based solutions
DATA PROVIDERS, because they can publish their data in open interoperability standards
Getting Started
Think Big
Start Small
Get Feedback
Scale Quickly
Deliver Value
Thinking Big
As the only software vendor that is an OGC Strategic member we participate in more than half of the OGC initiatives including:
Open Web Services OWS 1.2 Open Location Services Critical Infrastructure CIPI-1 GISD-ICP pilot South Africa Conformance Testing - CITE
Starting Small…
GeoMedia Technology
Adding functionality:
GML read-only data server (validated for GML from know data providers)
GML export command WMS adaptor WFS adaptor (available on request)
Intergraph Open Interoperability Grant
Announced during the GSDI 6 conference
$5.5 million pledged to Advance Open Interoperability
Harnessing OGC industry standards
Enabling development of Open Web Services
Making geospatial information available through GML
Enterprise-wide Benefits:
Expanded interoperability Improved information and communication
Everybody can apply
www.intergraph.com/gis/ogc/interop.asp
wmsviewer.com
Public site for anyone’s use, built by Intergraph
Providing a viewer to OGC-defined WMS standard interfaces
Signifying our commitment to open standards and OGC
Putting a face and use to data interoperability
Demonstrating the power of open access through the web
Everybody can join..
http://www.wmsviewer.com/
DEPHA datafrom Nairobi
Relief and roadsfrom USA
Tanzania Districtsfrom USA
Tanzania Land Coverfrom Dar es Salaam
Deliver Value…
What value?
Better data = Better decisions = Better business
Open = More Choices, Better Choices
Solutions = Productivity
Enterprise = Return on Investment
Sharing data 1 = Sharing costs and investments
Sharing data 2 = Making information available
Let’s stop thinking GIS product - centric!
Geospatial Sphere of Influence
Where we began:- GIS centric
What we should achieve:- Information centric
GML Relay
“The purpose of the event is to show that interoperability based
on the exchange of GML documents works.“
Van Oosterom
Let’s get started…