Open Interoperability From Concepts to Practical Reality
Open Interoperability From 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.
Open Interoperability From Concepts to Practical Reality
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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 the Industry Today • Geospatial Data is a true treasure chest for organizations • It is still a largely unutilized resource
The Reality • Many formats, different data models • Several databases, tiles, files • Distributed!
An Organization’s Effectiveness Greatly Depends on Its Ability to Share Information! Customers Policy Planning GIS Specialists Operations
A Major Challenge to the Industry • Data Availability • The 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
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/
Relief and roads from USA DEPHA data from Nairobi Tanzania Land Cover from Dar es Salaam Tanzania Districts from USA
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
Where we began: - GIS centric What we should achieve: - Information centric Let’s stop thinking GIS product - centric! Geospatial Sphere of Influence
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…