1. GENeSIS Browsing the Geospatial Web: Making Thematic Maps and Exploiting Free Sources of Data Richard Milton, CASA UCL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS Wednesday, 1 st December 2010 - 1700 Visualising Bike Share Oliver O’Brien, CASA

2. The MapTube Architecture MapTube SurveyMapper Web Server DataDrop Virtualisation Server VM: MapTubeD VM: Database Server VM: TOTeM VM: Twitter x 4 VM: Simulacra 8GB Dual Quad Core 300GB 32GB Dual Hex Core (HT) 1.8TB MapTube has 9,548 users and 614 maps

3. Current Projects The Mayor’s Office Safer Parks Survey, 28 th September 2010 The BBC Living Longer Series, November 2010 Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland British Library Tweetometer

4. DataStores A bibliography with API access and some SPARQL endpoints (Education and Transport) Direct access to CSV data, API access to Trackernet Twitter and RSS for new datasets

5. The “WebMapCreator” crowd-sourcing maps on the web MapTube Web Server DataDrop Virtualisation Server VM: MapTubeD VM: Database Server DEMO “Some Data”

6. MapTubeD Tile Rendering for Web-Based Maps Data Stream Choropleth JoinPoint Geometry Heatmap Custom Geometry Weather Geometry Database Geometry Stream Point Tile Renderers

7. WMS Layers

8. Applications Transport Property Retail Population Environment

9. World Shipping: VOS and AIS 13th to 30th April 2010 (6H, 12H, 18H) – 49,208 clickable points http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/amp/mmop/JCOMM/OPA/SOT/vos.html http://www.vesseltracker.com

10. Weather [MOVIE]

11. Aircraft: ADS-B and ACARS why’s that star moving? 413,360 points from 22 nd November 2010 http://www.flightradar24.com [MOVIE]

12. House Prices Houseprices.co.uk, nethouseprices.com, and more...

13. Retail GPS Files, Points of Interest and web scraping [Movie]

14. Trains, Tube Strikes, Twitter and APIs Twitter 29 Nov 2010 13Z (24,575 points)

15. And Finally sorting and searching 614 maps (nodes) 32875 edges Searching Data-Mining

16. Any Questions? Browsing the Geospatial Web: Making Thematic Maps and Exploiting Free Sources of Data Richard Milton, CASA