OSi Geographic Information Research & Development Initiatives Launch Ordnance Survey Ireland GI R&D Initiatives Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 13:00 to 20:30 (GMT) , Maynooth University

1. GI Management Transformation:
from geometry to databased relationships
Ordnance Survey Ireland GI R&D Initiatives
Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 13:00 to 20:30 (GMT) , Maynooth University
Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University & Programmable City, Maynooth University

2. How is the city translated into software and data?
Programmable City Project
Translation:
City into Code/Data
Transduction:
Code/Data Reshape City
THE CITYSOFTWARE/DATA
Discourses, Practices, Knowledge, Models
Mediation, Augmentation, Facilitation, Regulation
How do software and data reshape the city?

3. Socio-technological data assemblage
Material Platform
(infrastructure – hardware)
Code Platform
(operating system)
Code/algorithms
(software)
Data(base)
Interface
Reception/Operation
(user/usage)
Systems of thought
Forms of knowledge
Finance
Political economies
Governmentalities & legalities
Organisations and institutions
Subjectivities and communities
Marketplace
System/process
performs a task
Context
frames the system/task
Digital socio-technical assemblage
HCI, remediation studies
Critical code studies
Software studies
Critical data studies
New media studies
game studies
Critical Social Science
Science Technology Studies
Platform studies
Places
Practices
Flowline/Lifecycle
The Data Revolution, Rob Kitchin, 2014.

4. Prime 2 Models and Concepts
Skin of the earth ‘real world’ object modelling
5 skin of the earth objects
 Ways
 Water
 Vegetation
 Artificial
 Exposed
 Z-Layer
 Superimposed Objects
 Segmentation &
Connectivity
 GDF1 GDF2 centrelines
 Sites & Locals
 Boundaries
 Links objects using
persistent ID’s
 Form & Function
object classification
 3D data storage
(CityGML LOD2)
 Grouped

5. Seamless, topologically consistent blanket of polygons tha
cover the entire surface of Ireland w/no holes or gaps

6. Cassini, 6”, 1st ed. Circa?
Heuston station across time
Cassini 6”, 1943-44
Cassini 25”, 1st ed, Circa?
Cassini25”, 1936
Heuston Station, Prime2 MapGenie
Heuston Station, Prime2 SOE

7. Evolution
 Institutionally
 Colonial surveyor
 Military Mapping
Organization
 Civil Service National
Mapping Organization
(NMO)
 State Body NMO
 Will become a NMO
w/in Tailte Éireann
 Technologically
 Data collection
 Techniques
 Scale
 Geometry
 Skill
 Technologies
 Dissemination
 Scope
 Colonial mapping
 National mapping
 Post Colonial mapping
 OSi/OSNI/OSGB
 EU / Inspire / NSDI
 Global

8. Socio-technological transformation

9. Etymology

10. Relationality

11. Genealogy of a model

12. Genealogy of a data model

13. Models are also actors
 Models shape
 how the world is viewed
 the world of work
 tools & techniques
 the structure of an organization
 how organizations interconnect with others
 Models augment space
 Models are socially constructed
by people

14. Ontologizing the City - From Old School National
Cartographic Based Classification toward a Rules Based
Real-World Object Oriented National Database
Object of Study
 Data assemblage of OSi PRIME2
 Examine how ‘real’ things are understood in
the new object oriented data model
 Assess if these change how space is
modelled and then acted upon
Time frame
 Jan. 2015-2018
Data Management and Ethics
 ERC
 Maynooth University
 SSHRC Tri-Council
Case Study Outputs
 Case study report
 Data assemblage
 Tracing the production of space
 Genealogy from class to object
 Academic publications
Funding
 Programmable City Project
 P.I. Prof. Rob Kitchin
 NIRSA, Maynooth University
 European Research Council Advanced
Investigator Award
 ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY

15. Data Collection
Attend OSi & 1Spatial Road shows and public speaking events
 One day coordinated field trip & group interviews at OSi Sligo
(survey data capture unit)
 Examine the Prime & Prime2 flow lines
 Real-time survey and data update of a building
 1.5 months as an embedded researcher, OSi in Phoenix Park
 One-on-one interviews with key actors (Transcribed audio recordings):
 Group interview
 Document Collection
 Collection of objects across time for Dublin

16. Acknowledgements
The research for this paper was funded by a
European Research Council Advanced Investigator
award (ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY.
I would like to express my gratitude to all at
Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) for generously sharing
their knowledge and time.