Lecture given to DIT Spatial Planning Students, March 1st, 2011. The lecture was intended to introduce students to the concept of open geodata and give a flavour of the myriad of projects and datasets available.

1. An Introduction to Open GeoData Richard Cantwell Senior GIS Consultant www.gamma.ie [email_address] Personal Blog: www.geographic.ie Personal Twitter: @GeoGraphicIE http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/

2. Cartography.. Spatial Data.. GIS.. all changing. http://www.axismaps.com/typographic.php

3. Open Knowledge: “ A piece of content or data is open if you are free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike.” http://www.opendefinition.org/ What is Open? http://flic.kr/p/7Aqgs5

4. Publish data in web-standard format (that means XML, not PDF, XLS, DOC...) Standards: INSPIRE, W3C, OGC. Community: Plug into existing, attract new userbase. Build it, Publicise it, Use it and they will come.. All dependent on Open Data & Standards http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

5. New ways of visualising and exploring data http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4982034696/

6. New sources of GeoData http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4672160490

7. New methods of extracting GeoData http://www.cartogrammar.com/blog/flickr-as-a-paintbrush/

8. Social Networks – a rich source www.weeplaces.com

9. New Geographies http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/urbantick/maps/london_ncl_100628.html

10. New Technologies http://prettymaps.stamen.com/

11. Augmented Reality Browser http://www.walkspace.org/namaland/

12. Open Data http://www.oobrien.com/vis/bikes/

13. Open Data http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/15/crime-maps-uk

14. Creative Commons Licenses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses

15. Web Mapping – Current Licenses in use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_map_services *

16. Data vs API

17. Huge changes in the UK http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/

18. Free government data isn't necessarily the answer http://www.slideshare.net/pmbatty/geodata-creationpast-present-and-future

19. Free government data isn't necessarily the answer http://www.slideshare.net/pmbatty/geodata-creationpast-present-and-future

20. Web Mapping

21. Pre rendered tiles AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Open API's Rapid development Key Innovations http://berglondon.com/projects/hat/

22. OSi Data http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/

23. SRTM http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/

24. Geonames http://www.geonames.org/

25. Geonames http://www.geonames.org/

26. Landsat http://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl

27. Local Authorities beginning to embrace Open Data http://data.fingal.ie/

28. Local Authorities beginning to embrace Open Data http://www.dublin.ie/maps/

29. Mashup of Transport and Local Authority Data http://election.hittheroad.ie/

30. Building blocks being put in place http://opendata.ie/

31. http://labs.geofabrik.de/history OpenStreetMap

32. Large Community, Rapid Growth http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats

33. Frequent Updates http://www.itoworld.com/static/osm_mapper.html

34. Services & Capabilities Expanding http://www.osm-wms.de

35. Growing List of Related Projects http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services http://osmtools.de/osmlinks/

36. Vector Data - Cartography http://maps.cloudmade.com/editor

37. Custom POI Maps http://www.lenz-online.de/cgi-bin/osm/osmpoinit.pl

38. OpenIrishMap http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/

39. A Repository for Open GeoData http://maps.openstreetmap.ie/corineimport.html

40. Timeliness http://www.openstreetmap.org

41. Haiti OSM 11 th Jan 2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264767/

42. Haiti OSM 14 th Jan 2010 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264771

43. http://walking-papers.org GPS Mapping – on Paper

46. Open Source Geo Software http://www.osgeo.org/

47. OpenStreetMap Data & Services http://www.geofabrik.de

48. OpenStreetMap Data & Services http://www.cloudmade.com

49. Online Reading opengeodata.org opendata.ie www.vicchi.org povesham.wordpress.com www.spatiallyadjusted.com www.edparsons.com geothought.blogspot.com www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/giscussions oliverobrien.co.uk mike.teczno.com www.geographic.ie http://flic.kr/p/z6hK

50. www.GeoGraphic.ie