GSDI – From Concepts to Practical Reality

Preetha Pulusani

President

Intergraph Mapping & GIS Solutions

Topics

The State of Our Community today

The Importance of Industry Standards

GSDI - A Practical Reality

Getting Down to the Business of Implementing GSDI…one step at a time

The Technology Perspective The Importance of Getting Started Now

The State of Our Community Today

The State of Our Community Today

Geospatial Data – Still a Greatly Undervalued Asset

The potential to be a true treasure chest for the organization

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

The Reality of Geospatial Data Today

An Organization and its Data

Policy

PlanningPlanning

OperationsOperations

CustomersCustomers

GIS SpecialistsGIS Specialists

A Major Challenge to the Industry

Data AvailabilityThe right information

At the right time

In the right form

Common Data Model

Policy

Planning

Operations

Customers

GIS Specialists

Custom View of Data

The Vision

EnterpriseEnterprisespatial dataspatial data

EnterpriseEnterpriseNon-spatial dataNon-spatial data

Critical Metadata!

Critical Metadata includes answers to these questions What is contained in the data? Who owns it? Who created it? For what purpose? When?

Metadata describes your geospatial data and…

More importantly, it protects your investments and data assets

Once metadata exists, it needs to be Readily accessible Easy to query, view and share

Thereby, adding great value to the data itself

Interoperability

Data interoperability

Application interoperability

…critical to information sharing and collaboration…

wmsviewer.com

http://www.wmsviewer.com/

Public site for anyone’s 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

DEPHA datafrom Nairobi

Relief and roadsfrom USA

Tanzania Districtsfrom USA

Tanzania Land Coverfrom Dar es Salaam

Interoperability Underpins New Grant

The Intergraph Open Interoperability Grant Program

Announced this week to coincide with GSDI 6

$5.5 million pledged to GSDI development

Harnessing OGC industry standards

Enabling development of open Web services

Making GI available through GML

Enterprise-wide Benefits:

Expanded interoperability Improved information and communication

www.intergraph.com/gis/ogc/interop.asp

The Importance of Industry Standards

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 - GML Data warehousing Data management and storage Data distribution Application interoperability

What’s the 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

Let’s stop thinking GIS-centric!

GeoSpatial Sphere of Influence

Where we began:- GIS centric

What we should achieve:- Information centric

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the

opposite. - Thomas Sowell

UsersUsers

ViewersViewers

DoersDoers

Complex Thick clients

High seat cost

Simple

ManyUsersComponentware

Thin clients

Use of GeoSpatial Tools in an Enterprise

Centralized

Distributed

Web Services

GSDI : A Practical Reality

Quote from the GSDI Brochure:

Learning from the past, we focus on the future. The GSDI transcends political boundaries by working to attain sustainable development and maximize the use of resources on this planet we share.

Learning from the Past, we Focus on the Future

The Technology Perspective

Technology Elements to Consider

Data Management

Data Collection and Revision

Data Integration

GeoSpatial Tools

Data Distribution

New Information Technology Adoption

Scalability

Interoperability

Getting Started

Think Big

Start Small

Get Feedback

Scale Quickly

Deliver Value

Map Series ExampleGSDI

From Global to Local …

From Concepts to Practical Reality.

Today.