Open Interoperability From Concepts to Practical Reality

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Open InteroperabilityFrom Concepts to Practical
Reality

• Bart Hoogenraad
• Global Marketing Director
• Intergraph Mapping Geospatial Solutions

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Topics

• The State of our Industry today
• The Importance of Industry Standards
• Getting Started
• GML relay

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• The State of Our Industry Today

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The State of the Industry Today

• Geospatial Data is a true treasure chest for
  organizations
• It is still a largely unutilized resource

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The Reality

• Many formats, different data models
• Several databases, tiles, files
• Distributed!

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An Organizations Effectiveness Greatly Depends
on Its Ability to Share Information!
Customers
Policy
Planning
GIS Specialists
Operations
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A Major Challenge to the Industry

• Data Availability
• The right information
• At the right time
• In the right form

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The Vision

• Web Services and OPEN exchange formats like GML
  are the key to information sharing because of the
  distributed nature of the data.

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Industry Standardsare Key

• Geospatial Technology and IT must converge
• Remove proprietary barriers
• Migrate stovepipe solutions
• Industry must make an investment in standards
• Spatial Data Infrastructure
• Metadata
• Data access and interoperability
• Data warehousing
• Data management and storage
• Data distribution
• Application interoperability

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Setting Industry Standards

• Is the joint responsibility of
• SOFTWARE VENDORS, because they can create the
  required technology
• USERS, because they can ask for industry standard
  based solutions
• DATA PROVIDERS, because they can publish their
  data in open interoperability standards

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Getting Started

• Think Big
• Start Small
• Get Feedback
• Scale Quickly
• Deliver Value

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Thinking Big

• As the only software vendor that is an OGC
  Strategic member we participate in more than half
  of the OGC initiatives including
• Open Web Services OWS 1.2
• Open Location Services
• Critical Infrastructure CIPI-1
• GISD-ICP pilot South Africa
• Conformance Testing - CITE

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• Starting Small

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GeoMedia Technology

• Adding functionality
• GML read-only data server (validated for GML from
  know data providers)
• GML export command
• WMS adaptor
• WFS adaptor (available on request)

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Intergraph Open Interoperability Grant

• Announced during the GSDI 6 conference
• 5.5 million pledged to Advance Open
  Interoperability
• Harnessing OGC industry standards
• Enabling development of Open Web Services
• Making geospatial information available through
  GML
• Enterprise-wide Benefits
• Expanded interoperability
• Improved information and communication
• Everybody can apply
• www.intergraph.com/gis/ogc/interop.asp

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wmsviewer.com
Public site for anyones use, built by
Intergraph Providing a viewer to OGC-defined WMS
standard interfaces Signifying our commitment to
open standards and OGC Putting a face and use to
data interoperability Demonstrating the power of
open access through the web Everybody can
join.. http//www.wmsviewer.com/
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• Deliver Value

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What value?

• Better data Better decisions Better business
• Open More Choices, Better Choices
• Solutions Productivity
• Enterprise Return on Investment
• Sharing data 1 Sharing costs and investments
• Sharing data 2 Making information available

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Lets stop thinking GIS product - centric!
Geospatial Sphere of Influence
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GML Relay

• The purpose of the event is to show that
  interoperability based on the exchange of GML
  documents works.
  Van Oosterom
• Lets get started