SOTM 2011 What is Open in OSGeo, OGC and OSM? Arnulf Christl Download slide sets:

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl2 / 34 Content ● What is Openness Today? ● Introduction to ● Open Standards ● Open Source ● Open Data ● Future development ● Open Linked Data ● Transparency

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl3 / 34 Arnulf Christl, Spatial Systems Architect. ● OGC Architecture Board Member OGC Architecture Board Member ● Current President of OSGeo Current President of OSGeo ● OpenStreetMap advocate OpenStreetMap My alter ego Seven is an Ex-BorgSeven is an Ex-Borg

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl4 / 34 What? Consulting and Implementation of - Spatial Data Infrastructures - Resourceful Meta and Data Why? To leverage your Spatial Data How: - Open Source Software - Open Standards - Open Data - Agile management

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl5 / 34 Openness – Opinions

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl6 / 34 Translating Openness ● openness ● Freimut {m} ● Offenheit {f} ● Offenherzigkeit {f} ● Aufgeschlossenheit {f} [Empfänglichkeit] ● openness of mind ● Aufgeschlossenheit {f} [nicht engstirnig] ● openness to risk ● Risikobereitschaft {f} ● sense of openness ● Gefühl {n} der Offenheit ● openness and accountability ● Transparenz {f} [fig.]

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl7 / 34...and translating back... ● Freimut ● Frankness ● Aufgeschlossenheit ● candidness ● candor ● directness ● forthrightness ● frankness ● ingenuousness ● plainness ● Transparenz ● accountability ● transparency ● Risikobereitschaft ● readiness to assume risk ● Empfänglichkeit ● predisposition ● receptiveness ● receptivity ● susceptibility

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl8 / 34 Technical Susceptibility Störempfindlichkeit / stören ● annoy ● baffle ● bother ● break up ● bug ● derange ● disrupt ● disturb ● faze ● incommode ● interfere ● interrupt ● jam ● perturb ● trouble ● violate

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl9 / 34 More takes on Openness ● Free Software ( ● INSPIRE & Public Sector Information (EU) ● Data Liberation Front (Google internal initiative) ● Linked Open Data (W3C definition) ● US-Open ( ● Freedom of Information Act (USA gov)USA gov ● Maps for OSM (Imports, Microsoft Bing Maps,...) ● WikiLeaks (Global Transparancy, mirror)Global Transparancymirror

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl10 / 34 ● DNS (Domain Name System) ● Internet Protocol Suite ● TCP/IP, TLS ● HTTP ● URI ●... ● Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) How Open is the Internet?

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl11 / 34 Open Definition

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl12 / 34 Definitions in the Geospatial-Domain ● Open (Standards) ● Open (Source) Software ● Open (Free) Data

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl13 / 34 OGC's Word Cloud Courtsey by Paul Ramsey

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl14 / 34 Vision: Realization of the full societal, economic and scientific benefits of integrating electronic location resources into commercial and institutional processes worldwide. Mission: To serve as a global forum for the collaboration of developers and users of spatial data products and services, and to advance the development of international standards for geospatial interoperability.

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl15 / 34 Open in OGC ● All (with the appropriate financial background) can participate. ● All standards can be used royalty free (without cost) by anybody. ● All can comment on the standards during the public (open) discussion period. ● All can propose change requests

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl16 / 34 OGC Change Requests

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl17 / 34 Software...(and data and service and so on) End-User License Agreement License Agreement

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl18 / 34 Courtsey by Paul Ramsey

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl19 / 34 Open in OSGeo ● All can participate ● All software must be Open Source / Free Software licensed. ● All processes of the organization are open to public scrutiny.

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl20 / 34 Free Software ● Free Software is a license model! ● Not like "Free beer" but as in Fre Speech ● Free to: ● use anywhere and for any purpose ● understand and improve ● pass on to anybody else ● provide services and grow a business around...today and tomorrow! Free Software!

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl21 / 34 Open Source Open Source is a way of developing things collaboratively: ● Only source code can be modified ● End users typially use the machine readbale (binary) version (the executable) ● Dvelopers prefer open soce code because it makes reuse of algorithms and extending functionality much easier.

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl22 / 34 Market analysis Software development team Goal: Goal: Solve problem new version is released Participators propose new features & find bugs Improved code is published on the Web Development team develops software Goal: Sell licenses Goal: Sell licenses Product launch beta version release for beta tester beta tester reports errors to development team development team reproduces the error development team solves problem after OK from pm Proprietary motivation: Make Money Problem is identified development team reports to the product management Internet as communication pool and distribution media Open Source motivation: Solve Problem Proprietary vs Open Source

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl23 / 34 Free and Open Source Software Proven, accepted, commercially used: ● Solid Free Software Licenses ● Proven Open Source development models Together they make up FOSS. In geospatial: ● FOSS4G ● FOSSGIS ● gfoss.it …

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SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl25 / 34 Do-ocracy A do-ocracy [...] is an organizational structure in which individuals choose roles and tasks for themselves and execute them. Responsibilities attach to people who do the work, rather than elected or selected officials. ( )

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl26 / 34 Do-ocracy in OSGeo Page statistics ( ) Content pages: 2,277 All Pages: 5,410 Uploaded files: 1,032 Edit statistics Page edits since OSGeo Wiki was set up: 54,488 Average edits per page: View statistics Views total 10,270,014 Views per edit User statistics Registered users 7,562users ( )

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl27 / 34 But: Your software is worthless … …without data! Schuyler Erle

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl28 / 34 Courtsey by Paul Ramsey

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl29 / 34 OpenStreetMap

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl30 / 34 OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl31 / 34 OpenStreetMap ● Free and Open Data (what) ● Crowd Sourced Data (how) Other terms can be used to describe parts of the phenomenon, for example: "Volunteered Geographic Information" (Goodchild, 2007) … but it lacks the all important aspect of free reusability of the data.

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl32 / 34 OpenStreetMap Open in OpenStreetMap ● All can participate ● All can create maps ● All can use and get the maps

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl33 / 34 The Five Stars for Linked Open Data From an idea by Tim Berners Lee: Slide set: Online example:

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl34 / 34 Geo Data

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl35 / 34 Map Images Swisstopo – the national map agency of Switzerland makes tiles available through a cloud infrastructure for it's citizens. The underlying Data is not available freely (yet).

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl36 / 34 Ordnance Survey Open Data

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl37 / 34 Spain

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl38 / 34 Denmark

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl39 / 34 The Five Stars for Linked Open Data From an idea by Tim Berners Lee: Slide set: Online example:

SOTM 2011, Denver, COArnulf Christl40 / 34 Many Thanks for your attention! Dieser Foliensatz darf zu jedem Zweck kopiert, verändert und weitergegeben werden. Siehe auch: Copystraight.Copystraight Copyright: Arnulf Christl 2011Arnulf Christl Download slide sets: Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von: 12 to 16 September 2011 FOSS4G:FOSS4G: The annual Conference on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Denver, Colorado, USA

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