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

The State of the Industry Today Geospatial Data is a true treasure chest for organizations It is still a largely unutilized resource

 Many formats, different data models  Several databases, tiles, files  Distributed! The Reality

An Organization’s Effectiveness Greatly Depends on Its Ability to Share Information! Polic y Planning Operations Customers GIS Specialists

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 Standards are 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

Starting Small…

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

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..

DEPHA data from Nairobi Relief and roads from USA Tanzania Districts from USA Tanzania Land Cover from Dar es Salaam

Deliver Value…

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

Let’s stop thinking GIS product - centric! Geospatial Sphere of Influence Where we began: - GIS centric What we should achieve: - Information centric

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…