Matt Walker mattwalker@astuntechnology.com, x.com/_walkermatt
Improved availability and visibility
- Open data
- OSM founded almost 10 years prior to FOSS4G 2013
- Wide adoption; Humanitarian OSM (hotosm.org)
- OS OpenData released 2010
- More data for OS and other public bodies since
- Meta Data for Good/Daylight Map Distribution
- Google Open Buildings
- Earth Observation data
- Copernicus, Landsat, Sentinel
- OSM founded almost 10 years prior to FOSS4G 2013
- FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)
- Data discovery (Metadata and APIs; GeoNetwork, STAC)
Working with the web
- Cloud optimised formats - Cloud Optimized:
- GeoTIFF
- Point Cloud
- Shapefile 🙃
- Flatgeobuf
- VectorTiles
- Protomaps
- Web Mapping (modern JavaScript and browser tech)
- OpenLayers; Leaflet; Mapbox GL; MapLibre
- Canvas, WebGL, WebGPU...
- OGC APIs
- RESTful, OpenAPI definition, HTTP Status codes etc.
Someone else's computer :-)
- Amazon & Microsoft support PostGIS and related extensions
- Microsoft Planetary Computer
- Amazon Location Service
- Contribution back to projects and community?
Something about classic GIS analysis but more mainstream...
- Python, R, JavaScript
- Pandas, GeoPandas, MovingPandas
- SQLite, DuckDB
I, for One, Welcome Our Robot Overlords...
- Remote sensing - eo-learn (Python framework for machine learning), samgeo (segmenting geospatial data with the Segment Anything Model)
- Machines Reading Maps (text recognition and indexing)
- Querying - OSM GPT (query Overpass Turbo with natural language)
- QA the results!
Market leaders!
- Reliable and feature rich
- Wide adoption
- Continue to improve