OpenStreetMap and INSPIRE:

Can the twain meet ?

Just van den Broeckewww.justobjects.nljust@justobjects.nl

FOSS4GDenver (CO), USASept 14, 2011

““Oh, East is East, and West is West, Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”and never the twain shall meet”

Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, 1889Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, 1889

“Never the twain shall meet”

Two things which are so different as to have no opportunity to unite.

Twain derives from the Old English twegen, meaning two. The phrase “never the twain shall meet” was used by Rudyard Kipling, in The Ballad of East and West (1889):

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."

There, Kipling is supposedly lamenting the misunderstandings between the British and the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent.

http://feastoflanguages.com/?p=586

Collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world

“The Wikipedia of Maps”

www.openstreetmap.org

EU legislation to create a pan-European Union SDI

● sharing spatial information among EU public sector organisations ● public access to spatial information across Europe

http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu

“The Euro for Geodata and Maps”

try to create, maintain and provide maps and data

SDISDI

Common Objectives

● Vendor (Google/Yahoo/MS/..) neutral● Free from proprietary mapping monopolies● Adopt common set of standards/APIs● Seamless, cross-border maps & data● Not just maps, also raw data

Maps & data for any purpose

● Maps: base, topo, thematic● Routing● Name search● Disaster management● ...

Diffs – Process

formaltop-downlegislationhierarchywaterfallpaid

informalbottom-upspontaneousnetworkagilevolunteered

Diffs – Standards

standards 1st

committee

heavyweight (GML)

frozen

implementation 1st

community

lightweight (tags)

living

Diffs – License

Services/data multiple-options free-->closed unclearTools up to NMCAs FOSS/proprietary

Services/data open/reusable ODBL Tools mainly FOSS some proprietary

Diffs – End-users

public adminsanyone ?

anyone

NMCA-to-OSM-to-INSPIRE

“OpenStreetMap as Esperanto”

PoC

http://inspire-foss.org

●FOSS for INSPIRE●Google Code Project●Mailing List

deegree INSPIRE Node

inspire-foss.org – ETL

GDAL/OGRXSLT

NMCAspecific

data

INSPIREGML

Multiple ETLs

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inspire-foss.org – osm2inspire

GDAL/OGRXSLT

OSMPlanetData

INSPIREGML

OSM Esperanto

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OSMImport

OSMData

INSPIREGML

OSM2INSPIRE

Quoting Kipling

Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,

Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;

But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,

When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_East_and_West