Departmental brandThe NationalMap in the

Australian Open Data Network

Tim Neal

Data.gov.au

FIND

NationalMap

FederatedCKAN

DataInfrastructures

Federatedspatial

catalogues

Linked visualisations

NEII

FSDF

AURIN

ARENA

ATLAS of Living

Australia

Locate

QLDGlobe

NSWGlobe

ARENA

LIST

NSW

QLD

CommonwealthWA

SA

NT

Victoria

Tasmania

ACT

Increasing the value

Showing the Value

More data is made available

More feedback and use highlights the value to senior

decision makers and data custodians

Rationale

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System design goals1. Authoritative data services

– Eg Administrative boundaries, place names

2. Direct access from data custodian– Live data service direct from government agency (or delegate)

3. Multi-jurisdiction– Commonwealth, states, local government

4. Multi-custodian– Data from many different agencies - GA, ABS, BoM, ATO, Dept of Comms, state agencies

5. Open data– Direct service from open data repositories (like data.gov.au and similar state ones)– Easy access to actual data sets from NM UI (not just visualisation)

6. Open protocols and data formats– Supports OGC protocols (WMS, WFS), GeoJSON, KML, CSV, etc– All data services can be accessed outside National Map as well as inside it

7. Vendor neutral at back end (government agency)– ESRI’s ArcGIS, Google Maps Engine, open source software (eg Geoserver)

8. Vendor neutral at front end (browser)– Work with any modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE9 and later, iPads, etc)

9. Open source– Open source front-end; back-end data services can use open source

10. Platform for commercial, community and agency innovation– Interfaces to support value-add services (eg analytics, visualisation, sharing, printing)

(government, business, citizen)

avenue of dataexploitation

State and Territory DataServices

Main avenue of d

ata provisio

n

structured Commonwealth spatial data

Other networked open data platforms.(i.e. ABS, NEII, state and territory open data platforms)

• Commonwealth Agencies• State and Territory open

data sites

The National Map Concept

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Map browser code and data

mgmt

Govt open data

directory

Vision: An open national map

Web browser

…

Value-add commercial and community services (analytics, visualisations, mashups)

Map imageryTile map server

Elevation data

Terrain server

C/wealth govt agency authoritative data services

Internet

Tablet

Other data and services

Data.gov.au

ABS data

GA data

BoM data…

State govt authoritative data services

WA data

QLD data

State data

…

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Integration with CKAN (eg data.gov.au)

GovHack Outcomes

• Number of distinct users: 7385• Number of datasets available in the NationalMap: 412• Total number of distinct data sources accessed: 29,951• Number of times the dataset information function was accessed (this is the mechanism for

downloading the dataset or accessing the wms/wfs outside the NationalMap): 2466• Number of non-NationalMap datasets that were added for mash-up: 361• Value added applications produced: 2

Policy Visualisation Sharing

How Do We Create A National Picture?

National datasets provided as services Jurisdictional datasets provided as services

Allows ingestion of datasets in platform of USERS choice

Thanks

Tim NealDirector Data AccessDepartment of Communicationstim.neal@communications.gov.au0439410228

http://nationalmap.nicta.com.au