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

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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 8 August 2007 Open Source Geospatial Foundation Open Source Geospatial Software Free Geospatial Data Education

7. 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

8. OSGeo Projects Lines of Code Person Years Contributors Last Year Contributors Project LifeStart Date Mapbender208,193539182001 MapBuilder253,5526514232001 MapGuide Open Source301,7887921282005 MapServer107,6242714312000* OpenLayers30,1657562006 Web Mapping

9. OSGeo Projects Geospatial Libraries Lines of Code Person Years Contributors Last Year Contributors Project LifeStart Date FDO648,51017714 12 mos* GDAL/OGR558,02015217 1998 GeoTools1,237,68934131642002*

10. OSGeo Projects Desktop Applications Lines of Code Person Years Contributors Last Year Contributors Project LifeStart Date GRASS536,30714524332000* OSSIM557,1491517201997 Quantum GIS104,5832612202002

11. OSGeo Projects Project Totals Lines of CodePerson Years Contributors Last Year Contributors Project Life Total4,728,0681,269174280

12. Price comparison Open Source costs reduces over time

13. 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

14. Support & Partners OSGeo Developer register: – 80 Organisations for hire – http://www.osgeo.org/spd_help http://www.osgeo.org/spd_help Lisasoft/Terrapages in Australia – http://terrapages.com/TerraPages/ Services/Support.html http://terrapages.com/TerraPages/ Services/Support.html Autodesk DM Solutions

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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.