Open Standards Open Source Open Data Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Lisasoft/Terrapages GITA 2007 Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference

Overview Benefits of Standards Business of Open Source Software Open Data availability and licences

Benefits of Standards Interoperability between agencies and devices. Future proof Reduced cost

Standards: Return on Investment 26% overall saving. Low Maintenance and Operation costs outweigh higher implementation costs. Lower transition costs for sharing data. Half the risk. – Geospatial Interoperability Return on Investment Study, NASA Geospatial Interoperability Office, April 2005

What is Open Source? Free applications. Free access to source code. Free to extend source code. Examples: – Linux (displacing Solaris unix) – Apache (used by 70% of worlds web servers) – MySQL, Postgres databases

8 August 2007 Open Source Geospatial Foundation Open Source Geospatial Software Free Geospatial Data Education

Proprietary vs Open Source ComponentProprietaryOpen Source Metadata CatalogCubeWerx WRSGeoNetwork Dedicated ViewerArcReadergvSig, qGIS, Udig CartographyArcMap/ArcGISGRASS, OSSIM AnalysisArcINFO/ArcGRIDGRASS, OSSIM HandheldArcPadgvSig (coming) Web ViewerArcIMS Openlayers, Mapbuilder, Mapbender WMS, WFSArcIMS Mapserv, Geoserver, Mapguide OS Spatial DatabaseOracle Spatial, ArcSDEPostGIS

OSGeo Projects Lines of Code Person Years Contributors Last Year Contributors Project LifeStart Date Mapbender208, MapBuilder253, MapGuide Open Source301, MapServer107, * OpenLayers30, Web Mapping

OSGeo Projects Geospatial Libraries Lines of Code Person Years Contributors Last Year Contributors Project LifeStart Date FDO648, mos* GDAL/OGR558, GeoTools1,237, *

OSGeo Projects Desktop Applications Lines of Code Person Years Contributors Last Year Contributors Project LifeStart Date GRASS536, * OSSIM557, Quantum GIS104,

OSGeo Projects Project Totals Lines of CodePerson Years Contributors Last Year Contributors Project Life Total4,728,0681,

Price comparison Open Source costs reduces over time

Extending Open Source Open design process – Align with other developments Contribute improvements back – Features are supported and extended Engage Open Source developers – Reduce cost and risk

Support & Partners OSGeo Developer register: – 80 Organisations for hire – Lisasoft/Terrapages in Australia – Services/Support.html Services/Support.html Autodesk DM Solutions

License misconceptions “Using open source means you have to release the source code for your application, and anything else that touches it.” 40+ different open source licenses – GPL – restrictive – LGPL - open – BSD – anything goes

Australian Data Australian Spatial Data Directory – 750 National Datasets – Open license – 1.5 Million downloads last year Google Maps – Free for non-commercial Common Datasets from PSMA – Proprietary Open Street Map – Community building street maps

Open Data Licenses Move toward Creative Commons – Attribution – Noncommercial – No Derivative Works – Share Alike Australia using combination of licenses based on Contract Law. Qld GILF adding options to Creative Commons to cover extra 15% of data requiring royalties.