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Addy PopeGeo-servicesEmail: [email protected]: @go_geohttp://www.gogeo.ac.uk

EDINA website: http://edina.ac.uk

What is EDINA?

Open Data & Open Source Software at EDINA

is a National Data Centre

Based at

Supported by http://pafciu17.dev.openstreetmap.org/?module=map&center=-3.18,55.935&zoom=17&width=400&height=400type=cycle

What do we do?


http://www.flickr.com/photos/steverhode/3183290111/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Ensure continuous access to resourcesPreservation initiatives to ensure long term access to scholarly contentRepository services for open access and other licensed material

What?

EDINA runs services primarily for the UK education sector. However, it is increasingly trying to make

its services open and available to everyone.

In this Presentation we will look at some of the services that EDINA run that you can access and

what you might do with them and some other “Open” geo-tools.

GeoTagger http://tagger.edina.ac.uk/

A demo web client enabling users to upload media, metadata parsing and geo-tagging/geo-coding

An Open Metadata collection of geo-tagged/geo-coded enriched media with a search interface (this has been seeded with 250,000 images from Geograph

A basic web service API for geo-tagging/geo-coding image, audio and video media

GeoTagger http://tagger.edina.ac.uk/

Your Picture

Upload

Existing Exif Metadata

Use map to locate where picture was taken

Export image

Cartogrammar

car·to·gram/ kärtə gramˈ ˌ /

A map on which statistical information is shown in diagrammatic form.

A small diagram on the face of a map, showing quantitative information.

An abstracted and simplified map the base of which is not true to scale.

http://www.viewsoftheworld.net

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Cartogrammar http://cartogrammar.edina.ac.uk

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GoGeo


Discover GIS resourcesFind DataCreate standards compliant metadataLearn about metadata standards

Unlock

Unlock Text – feed in a body of text and Unlock will associate places from it. It uses fuzzy logic to disambiguate places with the same name

Web API that provides geographic reference to place names.

ShareGeo

Find and share open spatial data ……

ShareGeo

Create maps or perform spatial analysis

Openstream

Stream map to a GIS or Google Earth or embed the map in your website using the API.

Web Mapping Service (WMS) of OS OpenData

Other great resources

Geo-Events/Groups

EEO-AGI(S) and Hutton Club seminar series are held most Fridays at 1600 in the Geography Dept. They are School of Geoscience. They are free to attend.

The Royal Scottish Geographical Society run regular seminars around Scotland. Topics are broad and varied. (http://www.rsgs.org/)

The Association of Geographic Information has a Scottish section. It runs GIS events and Technical special interest groups.

Addy PopeEmail: [email protected]: @go_geohttp://www.gogeo.ac.uk

EDINA website: http://edina.ac.uk

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