1. Map publishing with or without programming skills
FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
Timo Aarnio
National Land Survey of Finland

2. Overview About the presenter Oskari in a nutshell
Map publishing with Oskari (w/ demo)
Utilising RPC with published maps (w/ demo)

3. Presenter GIS Expert Product owner in the Oskari project
Main interests
Analyses
Thematic mapping
Data visualization

4. Oskari in a nutshell Open source project started in NLSFI around 2011
Nowadays developed in a network of some 30 organizations (public & private sector)
See “How to build a successful co-operation around your FOSS software – case Oskari” in Session 8-1 by Jani Kylmäaho

5. Oskari in a nutshell Platform to access and re-use data from a SDI
Based on the idea of a distributed SDI
Data producers set up OGC Web Services
No need for downloading datasets and taking them into use
”Always” up-to-date data
Possibility to define roles and restrict access to different services

6. Oskari in a nutshell Backend and frontend components
Backend does all the heavy lifting
WFS queries (also WMS if needed)
Analyses, using WPS
Search channels (configurable)
Frontend makes it all nice and easy for the end-user

7. Oskari examples

8. Oskari examples

9. Oskari examples

10. Map publishing Easy-to-use tool for creating embedded maps
What you see is what you get
Lots of tools at your disposal
Layout and style configurable

11. DEMO

12. Using RPC Sometimes you want more than an embedded map
RPC can be used for communication between the map application and the parent web site
Uses Messaging API’s postMessage via JSChannel.js
Documentation available
No point in trying to have everything
Which is not always the best way to convey information
Charts, graphs etc.

13. DEMO

14. www.oskari.org Timo Aarnio timo.aarnio@nls.fi
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