Richard cantwell part1

Open GeoData:What’s out there?

Richard CantwellSenior GIS Consultant /Technical Manager

www.gamma.ie

richard.cantwell@gamma.ie

Cartography.. Spatial Data.. GIS.. all changing.

www.axismaps.com/typographic.php

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.”

www.opendefinition.org

What is Open?

http://flic.kr/p/7Aqgs5

Vs

www.creativecommons.org

•. A Legal

Minefield?

discovery.ac.uk/files/pdf/Licensing_Open_Data_A_Practical_Guide.pdf

Large Community: 600,000 Users. Rapid Growth: 75% in 2011

bikes.oobrien.com

Data vs API

Vs

Data vs API

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Do Both!

www.npws.ie/mapsanddata

gis.epa.ie/betazone/envision/

airomaps.nuim.ie/census2011

Free (government) data isn't necessarily the answer

www.slideshare.net/pmbatty/geodata-creationpast-present-and-future

maps.osi.ie/publicviewer

openstreetmap.org

tools.geofabrik.de/mc

SRTM

srtm.csi.cgiar.org

SRTM

www.opencyclemap.org

GeoNames

www.geonames.org