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• Web mapping - exploiting location based information through eGovernment

By David Hayward

Consulting Principal

Ajilon

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• What is location information?

• What is web mapping?

• Typical web mapping technology

• What problems can you solve?

• Where is web mapping used?

• Web Mapping in e-Government:

• • Benefits?

• • Challenges?

• • Case study NSW Government SIX Viewers

Agenda

Aim provide overviewof how web mapping can besuccessfully delivered through e-Government

3. Acknowledgements Thanks to the NSW Department of Lands for giving permission to feature the SIX portal within this presentation 4.

Simple definition:Information about anything that is referenced to the Earth. Also known as spatial information

Location data is comprised of:

• Location (where)

• Attributes (e.g. road name, road type etc)

• Spatial context point, linear, area

Where does location data come from?:

• Maps (usedsince 2300 BC Babylonian clay tablets)

• Aerial photographs & Satellite imagery

• Surveys

• Address information

• Geotagging

What is location information? 5. 2 key types of location data Source: www.innovativegis.com 6.

Delivery of location based information via the internet

• But its more than just a map!

• Fundamental to the development of the Geoweb

Characteristics

• Leverages Web 2.0 concepts / philosophy location can be considered as a key element for making the internet closer to the real world.

• Strong visualisation of information

• Large amounts of information stored/delivered

• Potentially rich with functionality

• Interactive

• Distributed & dynamic

• Bandwidth intensive

Examples:

• Commercial Google maps/Earth, Whereis.com.au

• Government SIX portal, WA SLIP portal, GA Sentinel & GA Map Connect

What is web mapping? 7.

AJAX (group of technology: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)

Server side technology (thin client)

Rich Internet Application

Spatial Web services that follow theOpen GIS Consortium(OGC) eg WMS, WFS

Web services e.g. SOAP

Mash ups (content derived from third parties)

Typical web mapping technology 8. How does it work? 9.

What questions can be?

• Location: what is at, where am I, how do I get to?

• Temporal: what has changed since?

• Proximity: what assets are located withinxkm of?

• Query: where is something found?

• Modeling: what if.?

What business questions can you answer? Source:www.lagunasalada.biz 10.

Google Maps & Google Earth, Whereis, livemaps, Multimap

Mobile phone (location based services)

Government portals- e.g.:

Where is web mapping used?

• Demonstration of SIX Viewer portal..

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Nielsen report that Google maps had 71.5 million unique hits during October 2007, & GE 22.7 million users .

Microsoft have purchased the UK Multimap web mapping site

Nokia purchased Navteq for > USD $8 Billion

Location information is worth $1.37 billion to the Australian economy & adds up to $12.6 billion to the GDP(source SEGS08 conference)

How big is the web mapping market? 12. Why use web mapping in e-Government? . . . And Making It All Accessible Managing Complexity . . . Location answering the where is? accessibility Use Source: www.esri.com adapted by NSW Department of Lands 13. How does Government use web mapping? Source: Adapted from www.esri.com Planning quickest routes, asset management Emergency departments Identifying areas of risk from e.g. fire, flood Environment agencies Health impact assessments Health Manage land titles State government Exploration license location, ore movement Mining Managing pipe networks Utilities Monitoring routes Transport To link clusters of disease to sources Epidemiology Crime mapping to target resources Police Inventory and management of resources Forestry Use of location information Industry 14. Benefits of web mapping in e-Government?

Massive demand for timely, relevant information picture says a 1000 words

Support decision making

• Provide users with all the information required to make an informed decision (Simplecomplex)

• Ability to integrate vast amounts of data within one environment (direct links to source of truth Govt DBs)

• Exploit visualisation techniques to present information according to user preference (Raster, vector, 3D, tabular etc)

• Visualise /identify patterns/trends etc

• Personalisation

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Identify clear business purpose (who are you targeting?)

• What information & functionality to provide?

Information

• Up to date, accurate, supported with metadata

• How to deliver 1000s of datasets?

• Volume of data (storage) pressure on bandwidth

Usability

• Balance needs of Business users & Mums & Dads

Technology

• What to use?

• Information architecture?

• Storage

• Client bandwidth

Data access

• Governance

• Security, Privacy, Policy & copyright

Challenges to web mapping in e-Government 16.

• Case Study NSW SIX Portal

How can these issues be addressed? 17.

The Spatial Information eXchange is a cross government initiative to spatially enable NSW

Spatial Information eXchange (SIX) has 3 main functions:

• Search and discoverspatial (location based) information. This includes options to search and display data using specialised viewers or through direct access via web service channels )

• Real time accessto up-to-date government information. Key base data include: addresses, cadastre, topography and high resolution imagery

• It is asecure gatewayto spatial information, government registers and land and property related searches

NSW SIX Portal 18. NSW SIX Portal six.nsw.gov.au 19.

Display up to date Govt data tailored to users specific needs

Find and display areas of interest

Integration of imagery, geographic theme and textual information with supporting metadata

Query Govt databases to display descriptive information on geographic themes

Personalisation for different business users

Empower users to diagnose system issues

Mash up

• Consume other Govt web services eg BOM weather info

• Empower users to mark up areas of interest and share with others

SIX Viewer(s) key functions 20. Government information INFRASTRUCTURE Electricity Sub-stations Gas Water Hydrants Sewerage Stormwater Telecoms LOCATIONAL Police Fire Ambulance SES Schools Hospitals Aged care Community Centres Icons Key buildings People @risk ECONOMIC & RISK Demography Employment Valuations Public transport schedules Pedestrians Floor plans Hazard models FUNDAMENTAL Cadastre Roads Imagery Topography Census Admin. Bdys. Source: NSW Department of Lands 21. SIX Viewer Business Channels Demonstration of SIX Viewer channels 22.

Federated data

• Ideally data remains with source agency

• Delivery enabled between agencies by fast bandwidth

• Opportunity to leverage secure Govt extranet

Federated authentication

• Trusted clients

SIX Information architecture 23. SIX Viewer Target whole of Govt AccessChannels Programs Data Agency Agency Business channel Business Channel Agency Lands Lands Agency People-first channel 24. SIX Viewer solution architecture Source: NSW Department of Lands 25.

Choice of technology was driven by:

• Information architecture

• Leverage existing Govt architecture

• Need to scale

• Need to provide direct access to Govt source of truth systems

• Functionality to display and query Govt databases

• Leverage Web 2.0 concepts

Technology needs to be fit for purpose

SIX Technology 26.

Need to balance needs of Mums and Dads users with professional users

Develop a lite version of the site.

SIX Lite design approach

• Independent review by usability expert

• Balance user convention with innovation

• Ideally minimisebuttons without reducing functionality

• Empower users to mash up and extend interface themselves

• Provide framework for interface to scale with user experience

SIX Lite target Mums & Dads users Source: http://bayramannakov.wordpress.com/2007/06/ 27. SIX Usability SIX Lite interface Demonstration of SIX Lite 28. NSW Government policy & SIX

Linkages with NSW State Plan

• Maintain and invest in infrastructure

• A higher productivity economy

• Housing affordability

• Building harmonious communities

• Simplifying Government processes e.g. tailoring electronic services

Linkages with GCIO People First Plan

• Integrated with Channels and Access

• Government Shared Service

• Consolidates spatial information and property holdings

• Provides equitable (fairness) access to core information stores

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Ongoing review of usability

SIX Lite toolbox empower users to enrich user experience by adding additional tools to interface

Increased integration (mash up) of information.

• Enhance mash up tools (empower agencies/users to add more of their own data)

• Expose / consume more web services

More channels support for whole business sectors

Increased visualisation 3D

SIX API:

• Demand from Govt to provide a configurable API to embed in Business applications

SIX Viewer - Future plans 30.

Increased exploitation ofvisualisationtechnologies

• 3D e.g. Google streetview

• Video display rather than static imagery

• Indoor visualisation

Future trends in web mapping 31.

Location based services proliferation -

Increased availability of web services (push/pull)

New technology to empower users to extend their user experience e.g. new cameras with geotag capacity

Greaterempowermentof users to add & integrate location information means that the future direction of web mapping is in their hands

Future trends in web mapping Source: www.edparsons.com 32. More information some key search words

Web 2.0

Geoweb

Neogeography

AJAX

Vector data

Raster data

Mash up

OGC

WMS, WFS, WCS

Web services

NSW State plan

NSW People First

NSW Government

NSW Lands

SIX Viewer

SIX Lite

Web mapping related:

NSW Government specific:

33. Any questions?

David Hayward

• Consulting Principal (Spatial Solutions National Lead)

• Ajilon

• [email_address]