2. Who is this man & why is he here!
Name:
Simon Miles
Job title: GIS Developer
Current Employer:
Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead
Geogeek:
YES!
Describe your role:
I create maps from data, scripts and code;
and help 80+ other staff to roughly the same thing!
Why are you here:
To sell you free GIS!
4. What is QGIS?
Open-Source GIS solution = Licence Free
<0.5 million downloads as of version 1.8
UK Local Authority uptake growing!
www.qgis.org
RBWM migrated from a proprietary to open source GIS last year
Yr 1 savings of £15,000 in just licence costs
Increased our GIS user base to over 80
5. Why migrate?
?
Spend more
with ESRI
?
?
Go
Open-Source
?
?
Alternative
GIS vendor
?
Image - http://abrampoon.files.wordpress.co/2010/08/at-cross-roads3.jpg
ESRI
(Proprietary GIS vendor)
Costing a fortune
Locked in data
No real means of scaling up GIS
6. Savings?
£15,000
in ESRI
Licence costs
Yr 1
Reduction in
Hardware upgrades,
Memory, cpu’s etc
Server consolidation
More GIS for less
Further savings
in ESRI
Licence costs of
£7000
Yr 2
Image -http://www.q4.com/savings-accounts/
7. What do we do with GIS?
Lots!
Over 700 datasets in our database
Some staff….
Just view data
Create data
Analysis data
8. Data - PostGIS
750 odd GIS datasets
From
Dog bins
to
CCTV camera coverage
9. Data - Rasters
Ordnance Survey supplied data,
Vector Map Local
1:50,000 map etc
We purchase…
Aerial Photography
Historic Maps
Image:http://clayman5.deviantart.com/art/raster-man-reggae-music-296533472
10. Data – Raw GIS formats
• Supplied by contractors
• Created in-house
• Downloads from
data.gov.uk
ONS
Environment Agency
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