© 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc. GSDI-6 Developing SDI’s Session: Global Perspectives Advancing GSDI and the Objectives of Sustainable Development September 2002 Mark Reichardt Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.2 What is the OGC? The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) –Not-for-profit, international consortium –220+ industry, government, NGO and university members Specification Development Program -similar to other Industry consortia (W3C, OMG, etc.). Interoperability Program (IP) - a global, innovative, hands-on engineering and testing program designed to accelerate interface development and bring interoperability to the market. Outreach and Community Adoption Program – education and training, encourage take up of OGC interfaces, business development, OGC Vision A world in which everyone benefits from geographic information and services made available across any network, application, or platform. OGC Mission Our core mission is to deliver spatial interface specifications that are openly available for global use.

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.3 Advancing Spatial Data Infrastructure Via Interoperable Web Services Clearinghouse Geoparser Vendor Data Local Government National Government Other Collections Clearinghouse Whoville Cedar Lake Whoville Cedar Lake Buildings Roads Images Targets Boundaries... Catalog View Common interfaces enable interoperability Queries extract info from diverse sources Integrated View Gazetteer Coordinate Transform Web Mapping Server, Web Feature Server, Web Coverage Server Catalog Services Other Services Metadata Data Metadata Data Metadata Data Metadata Internet Geoparser Geocoder

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.4 A breakthrough – A New Interface Development and Specifications Process Initially.. OGC and its membership applied a traditional approach for development of standardized interface specifications. Today.. Rapid industry prototyping is accelerating specification development and implementation of open systems to meet user requirements Prototypes result in:  candidate specifications  product implementations  demonstrated capability

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.5 FGDC Demo Web Mapping Testbed WMT Demo USL Pilot Kickoff WMT 2 Kickoff Geospatial Fusion Testbed Military Pilot Project GFS Pilot Kickoff © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc. 5 NRW Pilot Approved and Candidate Specifications 0 OGC’s Progress: Initiatives Producing Interfaces / Specifications OGC Network OGC Web Services 1.1 Open Location Services OWS 1.2 CIPI GISD-ICP

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.6 Where to Find OGC Specifications

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.7 Software Implementing / Conforming to OGC Specifications Click on “Implementing Products” at and ask yourwww.opengis.org Providers!

© 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc. Examples of OpenGIS ® in Operation

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.9 Other Implementations Using OpenGIS ®

© 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc. GISD Initial Capability Pilot (GISD-ICP) Sam Bacharach Open GIS Consortium, Inc.

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.11 Sponsors and OGC Partners Sponsors –US Department of State –US Agency for International Development –US Federal Geographic Data Committee –Natural Resources Canada Partners –Advanced Technology Solutions (USA) –CubeWerx, Inc. (Canada) –ESRI (USA) –Federal Graphic Data Committee (USA) –Intergraph (USA) –Ionic Software (Belgium) –Laser Scan, Inc. (USA)

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.12Goals Further the value of GI to SD by building / improving an interoperable infrastructure framework on the African continent –Form a public and private partnership to focus both sectors on the issues –Create a working, expandable system based on Standards Based Commercial Off the Shelf Software (SCOTS)

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.13Method Engage the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC), to rally its 230 members of the industry around the cause –OGC is not-for-profit industry trade association Build a framework of existing data resources and enable the real-time sharing and use of those data –Uses “interfaces” designed by OGC –Uses “software” from industry, government, shareware, open source worlds

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.14 Before OGC Interfaces Vendor D (Fine elevation) Vendor B (Inland Water) Vendor C (Coarse elevation with ocean) Vendor A (Coastlines)

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.15 With OGC Interfaces Seconds to Minutes, instead of days Up to date data Get exactly what you want, not an entire continent Vendor neutral Format neutral

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.16 The Challenges How do I find and learn to trust geospatial data from other sources? How do I minimize the cost of using those data?

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.17 Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Catalog

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.18 Full Information about each Data Set

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.19

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.20 Our Phase One African Partners: More to come in the future

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.21 Our Phase One Foundation Partners:

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.22 Image Mosaic from Belgium Boundaries from Mali Tanzania data from USA

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.23 DEPHA data from Nairobi Relief and roads from USA Tanzania Districts from USA Tanzania Land Cover from Dar es Salaam

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.24 Tanzania Districts from USA Tanzania Land Cover from Dar es Salaam Cassava Cultivation from Cali, Colombia NASA Mosaic from USA Backdrop from this local computer

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.25 DEPHA data from Nairobi Boundary data From USA Tanzania Data from USA

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.26 CEOS Landsat Mosaic from USA Roads from USA Boundaries from USA SADC Landcover from Pretoria

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.27 Shaded relief from Canada Cassava data from Colombia Tanzania Data from Dar es Salaam

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.28 Implications and Next Steps GISD-Initial Capability Pilot has helped to encourage: –Improved interoperability for existing infrastructure –Improved readiness of African partners in SDI –Reinforcement GSDI best practices –Improved ability to discover, access and integrate geospatial data for sustainable development and other issues Visiting GISD-ICP Partners, June OGC Meetings, London

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.29 Implications and Next Steps Focus on communicating the results and capabilities of this initiative to the broader community –Operationally available –Portal accessible via by early Septemberwww.opengis.org/gisd What GSDI (we) can do: –Work to build out of GISD-ICP –Encourage build out in other geographic areas, other domains –Continue dialog on interoperability issues and needs in the OGC process

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2002, Open GIS Consortium, Inc.30 Points of Contact Sam Bacharach Program Manager Mark Reichardt Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption Louis Hecht Chair, OGC Europe Visit Us At: