Clemens Portele

The gap between SDIs and the GeoWeb

Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) are currently being developed globally with the intent to improve access to and interoperability of geospatial data. Examples includes INSPIRE in Europe, NSDI in the U.S., UNSDI in the U.N., and many more. So far, however, the impact of SDIs on the integration of spatial data as a ubiquitous component of the web seems fairly low and there does not seem to be evidence that SDIs have increased the market volume of governmental spatial data by a significant amount. This presentation looks at some potential strategic and technological reasons

Aaron Cope

The Undiscovered Country

By examining Flickr’s user-derived (and user-corrected) places and shapefiles, notions of what it means to reverse-geocode a latitude and longitude, conceptual devices like the idea of “nearbyness” and the ease of generating custom cartographies this talk aims to highlight and encourage not simply a model of community participation in the field of (so called, neo and paleo) geographies but also a more nuanced understanding of place that reads, and travels, like a contour map of meaning.

Jans Aasman

Moving Objects: Look in the Past, Manage the Present and Predict the Future

We see an increased interest from telecom providers, the transportation industry and defense integrators in tracking hundreds of thousands to millions of objects in real time. Consider fleets of trucks, swarms of airplanes, track data for soldiers on the urban battle field, track data for endangered animals, or location based services like Loopt.

Ludvig Emgard

World’s most realistic 3D city models

Swedish C3 Technologies fully automatically creates huge 3D city models from images only. Using a highly efficient algorithm from the Swedish defence industry C3 can compute a textured elevation model from thousands of images in a few hours time. The technology has been noticed by slashdot and the models are released online through Swedish and Norwegian yellow pages by media said to beat Google Earth. See C3 demonstate the stunning photorealism in C3 city models.

H. Martin Kyle, CSSLP GISP

Exploiting Geospatial Systems - The Attackers Perspective

The abstract methods for attacking geospatial systems are the same as attacking other information systems. However, the  specific attack vectors can vary and attack payloads may also vary depending on the intended impact. This presentation highlights the process by which attackers compromise the integrity of geospatial information, weaken the technologies that ensure its availability, or destroy its confidentiality, heinous actions that, in a geospatial context, can affect a physical reality often critical to achieving operational objectives.

John Sharrard

Future directions in 3D Modeling and Visualization in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Progress is being made in 3D data acquisition, 3D models, 3D data management, and 3D spatial analysis tools that will yield a substantially richer, immersive, 3D experience for the geospatial technology user. This presentation will review and discuss many of the technology trends and tools that are emerging now or will be seen in the future.

Sean Gorman

Bringing the GeoWeb to the Enterprise

The vast capabilities made available by the emerging GeoWeb (crowdsourcing, geo-annotations, analytics, virtual globes, and location aware services) offer a new world of opportunity for the Enterprise. However, while this opportunity does exists, numerous barriers to entry persist. This presentation will discuss how specific enabling technologies are successfully bringing the GeoWeb to the enterprise, and provide a case study of how FortiusOne’s GeoCommons platform has adapted GeoWeb principles for both government and commercial enterprise deployments.

Bill Timmins & Jaymes Pardue

Access to GIS Data for Emergency Resources and Response

The GPS and mobile data technology available to emergency responders, operational managers, and support personnel offers solutions that can be combined with GIS data. This can then be published and distributed in a standard format eliminating technology boundaries associated with understanding GIS or databases. Objectives of agencies can be interwoven with these interactive technology solutions for those in the field and those who determine the solutions to potential events, developing events and post event response.

Jans Aasman

GeoTemporal Reasoning in Diverse Data Sources

A new pillar of the web is RDF, a W3C supported technology to represent structured and unstructured metadata and to link very diverse datasets into a bigger whole. The geospatial community is starting to incorporate the same technology to model geospatial objects and annotate objects with metadata, the USGS National Map project being a great example.

Mike Springer

Building a Virtual World: 3D Buildings in Google Earth

The process to generate an accurate, expansive world model continues to evolve and expand in new and dynamic ways. Google Earth serves as the platform of choice for generating and visualizing these models, and continues to expand through the acquisition of data via user contributed models, partnerships and generated data. This session serves to help illustrate the uses of this data, how to get involved in the process of creating this environment, and new developments.

Andrew Turner

GeoWeb Standards: How far they’ve come, How far they need to go

The GeoWeb is growing up rapidly. There are now tens of thousands of KML files, and popular sites like Blogger outputting GeoRSS.

But we’re still in the infancy of being able to truly share and track geo data on the web. In this talk, we’ll examine the current standards and discuss how they could work better with each other and with the rest of the web - covering topics like syndication, collaboration, searchability, and unification.

Pascal Albericci

Mapping any part of the world at scale 1:50,000 within one single day for rescue purpose : a big challenge

Basic cartographic information is one of the first needs in case of crisis/disaster management, to provide a common representation of the area to the whole community involved in rescue operations. Spot Image SA and Infoterra France have recently developed a web service to provide mapping information at scale 1:50,000 and smaller, to address this need. The web service is designed to provide operational maps with a very high level of geometric accuracy within a dramatically short delivery time.

Dennis Chao

Implementation of a Web-GIS Application for the Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project in ArcGIS Server 9.2

By integrating the latest Web-GIS and other web applications such as ArcGIS Server, chart creation and three-dimensional viewer, the Turtle Mountain Web-GIS application provides a better understanding to the public of the geological hazard in the area, its impact to communities in the vicinity, and efforts to monitor future rockslide activities. Government officials and landuse planners can utilize the GIS functions - spatial analysis and modeling, and charting capabilities - sensor reading charts for planning and other purposes.

Mark Korver

Adding A Truly Open-Source 3D Globe To The Stack: Open, Community Driven, & Browser-Based

Thanks to the Internet giants, the 3D world is now the expected reality, but the battle over 3D geo-search has just started. While the big players battle over market share, alternatives have developed slowly. Content providers and developers need a FOSS choice to fill the void at the client presentation level, in order not to be constrained by the complex and changing EULAs that the vendor based products are encumbered with. The recently open-sourced, Ptolemy3D, hopes to satisfy this role as a 3D viewer targeting AJAX-style development and backed by tools to create and stream 3D content.

Bernard Szukalski

Delivering GIS to everyone using ArcGIS Explorer and ArcGIS Online

ArcGIS Explorer 900 is a lightweight geobrowser for GIS that offers an easy-to-use way to view geographic information and deliver broad access to GIS data and capabilities. ArcGIS Explorer is free, and includes basemaps and additional GIS layers. It supports ArcIMS, WMS, and other Web services and can be used to integrate local content with these services including shapefiles, geodatabases, KML, and more. ArcGIS Explorer also includes support for layer packages and ArcGIS sharing environments.

Benoit Fredericque

Key elements to consider when building 3D City GIS for sustaining infrastructure

Given that worldwide urbanization is accelerating, we can say that the battleground for Sustaining Infrastructure will be at the city level. We provide an overview of our vision of challenges related to sustainability of city infrastructures and a description of the potential role of 3D City GIS. A 3D City GIS is a collection of functionality allowing the management of data, users and processes related to city’s infrastructures. We provide several guidelines underlining key elements to consider when building a 3D City GIS.

Serge Boucher

Geographical Data on the Semantic Web and the Long Tail of Geographic Information

The Semantic Web or Web 3.0 is becoming a reality. Not long ago, the Semantic Web was little more than a vision shared by a small group of academics; now, it is a collection of tools and techniques that revolutionise the practice of publishing and consuming information. This talk will present the technologies, discuss current and future applications, and explain why these techniques are crucial to the GIS community.

Hans Schoebach

Event Driven Geospatial Data Synchronization for Collaborative SDI using SOA technology, Google Earth, and OGC Web Services

The synchronizing of geospatial data is critical for collaborative applications, such as Crisis Information Management, Situational Awareness, and Common Operation Picture. This presentation will describe a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) solution that uses SOA technology and the Google Maps API. This is used in conjunction with open standards and OGC Web services for interoperability, data propagation, and communication.

Paul Cote

Simple Relational Model for Temporally Diverse City Models

A relational schema design is presented that provides a simple infrastructure for managing city models that grow and are updated over time. The Schema retrieves model views representing different temporal scenarios, and unbuilt design schemes expressed as simple SQL statements. The schema lends itself well to city models that are managed as an overlay on typical municipal GIS infrastructure. Consideration is made for integration with data models for building interior spaces. The model also provides a platform for delivery of city model views in web-based service architectures.

Gordon Plunkett

Integrating Canadian Base Data for use on the GeoWeb

Government agencies today are producing digital and traditional paper cartographic products. Users are demanding higher quality on-line digital Web Basemap products and services. Digital web maps need to be high performance, spatially accurate, consistent quality, visually appealing, and contain up-to-date data. This presentation will outline technical and business issues related to creating and maintaining Web Basemaps in Canada, including the technology behind them and issues such as scale, presentation, and “look and feel”.

Martijn Meijers

Progressive transmission of variable scale vector data over the web

Current state-of-the art clients for visualizing geographic data over the Internet make use of “slippy-map” techniques based on raster tiles. We follow another path by using topologically-structured vector data to display maps at variable scales. To test our approach, we implemented a protoype that uses the topological structures via a web service. In the presentation, we will highlight important components of our architecture and give a demonstration of the client developed.

Jasna Pleho

Fuzzy model for evaluation of the urban quality in Sarajevo

Urban environment quality evaluation is an important part of environmental planning and management. Traditional theory does not give as good evaluation as the fuzzy set theory, which provides the basis for urban planning.

Most information related to environmental evaluation has a spatial component, which is why GIS is widely used in the evaluation of the environment. Integration of the GIS and fuzzy set theory has been used lately in evaluation of urban environment quality because of the ability of fuzzy set theory to manage imprecise, insecure and ambiguous data, and utilise continuing classification.

Boris Gutkin

Address Management: The Secret Ingredient for Geospatial Success

Defining your Geospatial strategy is not an easy task - identifying, understanding, and implementing the right ingredients for success is even more difficult. Join this session to learn how a Master Address Management solution can be the key ingredient to ensure your geospatial program is a success. Attendees of this session will learn:

• Best practices for address database management
• Leading methodologies for validating nation-wide address records
• Industry standards and processes for ongoing address maintenance

Satish Sankaran

Geospatial Registries, Catalogs and Search - Are we there yet?

In the world of geospatial search, finding data/services continues to be difficult and current SDI implementations have been unable to encourage and/or enforce appropriate patterns to improve the “search” experience. Standardized metadata principles and structured search methodologies battle hard against simple description tags and web 2.0 type search technologies. This presentation will explore the impact of various standards and the current contributions of open source and commercial technologies towards shrinking the imaginary differences between the Geoweb and SDI communities.

Christopher Helm

In My Backyard (IMBY): Renewable Energy for Everyone

IMBY is a web-based tool developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to assist homeowners and smallbusiness owners in determining whether solar PV or small wind systems may be right for them. IMBY is designed to be a light weight and easy-to-use tool designed to help promote the use of solar and wind technologies. For more information see: http://www.nrel.gov/eis/imby/

Ben Allan

GIS and CAD - the Unified Spatial Environment

As organisations across Europe prepare for the implementation of the INSPIRE directive, expectations of the power of spatial data have never been higher. Behind the scenes, data managers face complex challenges such as how best to integrate the traditionally separate disciplines of CAD and GIS. An emerging model, the Unified Spatial Environment (USE), offers a way forward. This can embrace all datasets - including GIS, CAD and raster data - as well as software applications.

Carsten Roensdorf

How good is your information architecture?

While geographic data on the Web is typically available in a relative unstructured way, data produced by data providers in a Spatial Data Infrastructure is often highly structured. The integration of these two approaches will be discussed.

An example for a sound Information Architecture will be given to highlight methodology, technical components, and resulting business benefits. Multi-representational databases will be examined alongside information model and data transformations required by the European INSPIRE Initiative.

Stephen Rixon

Changing our perspective from ‘collection’ to ‘utilisation’:

With increased demand from in-car/personal navigation, virtual-globes (such as Google and Virtual Earth) and advances in modern production methods, the availability of 3D city models has increased significantly in just two years. The technical challenges faced in the volume of data required for 3D cities have been drastically reduced. This workshop highlights the need for a shift in the primary focus away from data-capture methods to the down-stream processes of ‘data management’ and ‘data application’

John Hedstrom

MultiSpeak Version 3 Web Services Data Transfer

A developers perspective to designing a data transfer process utilizing the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) initiative MultiSpeak 3 will be discussed along with what considerations a potential user must evaluate before making a decision for their industry. MultiSpeak 3 utilizes web services to seamlessly transfer data between systems with the use of XML (Extensible Markup Language). The NRECA initiative’s Multispeak 3 is a defined format for transferring data for the electrical industry.

James Fee

Enableing the GeoWeb with Small Organizations

The GeoWeb is not just for large organizations and governments. Small organizations can also take advantage of the promise of the GeoWeb. It doesn’t take wholesale changes to work flow processes or large investments in hardware and software, just a willingness to share and consume data across the Internet.

Xavier Lopez

Advances in Virtual City Data Management

This talk highlights recent advances in data management technology driving the uptake in a new class of enterprise-class 3D solutions. The paper addresses advances in standards and related 3D software tools driving the uptake in 3D geospatial solutions. Recent advances in data management, standards, and software tools are addressed.

Peter Batty

Building a new location-aware infrastructure for calendaring and scheduling

This presentation will discuss experience gained in building a new location-aware infrastructure for calendaring and scheduling applications. The presentation will look at mechanisms for automatically inferring a person’s future location by looking at their email and other online information, and will discuss cost and environmental benefits that can be realized by implementing this type of system in the enterprise in order to optimize business travel.

Ian Painter

OWS6 AIM - A standards based architecture for Aeronautical Information Exchange

The Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) is designed to enable the management and distribution of Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) data in digital format. This talk will discuss the server side architecture implemented in OGC Open Web Services (OWS6) AIM testbed, focusing specifically on the use of the Web Feature Service and the Sensor Event Service for a flight planning and monitoring scenario using the AIXM5 GML application schema developed by EUROCONTROL and FAA

Stephen Bohus

GIS and CAD enables community led city planning: the Mississauga Lakeview waterfront experience

GIS and CAD enabled residents of Lakeview, Mississauga, to create their own vision for a plan to redevelop and revitalize derelict industrial lands on the waterfront.

The development of their 3D model started first with rough extruded forms on aerial photos, and gradually evolved to utilizing 3D GIS terrain information, building footprints, extrusions, massing and vegetation. For density information, the software utilized a real time spreadsheet linking building footprint and massing to area calculations.

Dale Lutz

Integrating GIS, CAD, Raster, 3D and BIM Data-

Until recently, most maps offered spatial insight into the exterior world. With the introduction of 3D and BIM data to the geospatial world, the value of maps and spatial analysis can now be brought into the interior world. This convergence is leading to a world that is connected visually and spatially in ways that have never before been possible. This presentation will demonstrate how spatial ETL can be used to integrate GIS, CAD, 3D and BIM formats.

Anthony Beck

The VISTA project: integrating UK utility data

Poor underground asset information produces time, cost, and process inefficiencies for utility companies, highways authorities, and other third party organisations that rely on asset data. The VISTA project has ‘proved the concept’ that the underlying syntactic (format), schematic (structure), and semantic (descriptive) differences can be resolved for the UK utility domain. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the VISTA project, the integration architecture, the visualisation system, and our pilot projects.

Michael Ashbridge

Google Earth 5.0 KML Extensions

Google Earth 5.0 allows you to dive under the sea, see historical imagery, and record immersive 3D tours. Come see how we used the extension mechanisms available in the OGC KML standard to enable the sharing of these new features. No PowerPoint slides were harmed in the making of this presentation.

Jason Birch

Providing a Higher Level of Service through Web Architecture: City of Nanaimo and the MapGuide REST Extension

Using the MapGuide REST Extension developed by Haris Kurtagic at SL-King, the City of Nanaimo is publishing its geospatial data as web resources. The primary benefit of this strategy is allowing residents to use their standard internet search tools to gain access to our mapping data. This presentation will provide a high level overview of this project, drill down into implementation details and benefits, and discuss the results in the context of our web statistics.

Mark Alexander

Hybrid Geospatial Solutions (Canceled) - Replacement workshop listed directly below (David Dodds)

This presentation will explore new opportunities for geospatial visualization and analysis driven by recent changes in the industry. Specifically, it will examine the impact that consumer map services, including Microsoft Virtual EarthT and Google MapsT, have had on the demand for advances in geospatial visualization and analysis; concepts and technologies including tile-based mapping, AJAX, REST APIs, WMS and other web-based mapping services; and the data and service integration opportunities between them.

David Dodds

XML Technology Tools in the Cityscape and BIM Domains

This presentation discusses how XML technologies (including open source) may be used in the Cityscape and BIM Domains. Examples are presented showing XML data structures (including tables), gbXML, XML schemas, Schematron schemas, XSLT, MathML, and E4X. Logic processing, using OWL and Description Logic, allows data to be input and processed based on meaning rather than just syntax. Visual mapping of free form BIM data can be done augmented by ontologies. Automation of input processing shown.

Perry Petersen

Grand Challenge of On-Demand Geospatial Integration - Solved!

This is an opportunity to hear details about an exciting breakthrough in geospatial data encoding vital to next generation Geospatial-Intelligence and promised capabilities of the GeoWeb. The Digital Earth Reference Model solves the Grand Challenge of rapid multi-source universal geospatial integration independent of size, scale, type, format, datum, projection or time. The solution meets expectations from data creators and end users for seamless, real-time and cost effective publication  and access to geospatial relevant information.

Don Murray

Using Spatial ETL for Web Services-Based Data Sharing

One key obstacle organizations face in web services-based data sharing involves providing data in a structure that meets the specifications of the web services they want to use. This presentation will discuss common GIS, CAD and BIM formats and key web services formats (i.e. GeoRSS, GeoJSON, GML and KML). Demonstrations will illustrate how spatial ETL technology can dynamically convert data into the precise format and schema specifications of web services, including OGC WFS and WMS.

Rulon Simmons

On-line Delivery of Natural Gas Pipeline Leak Survey Results from Differential Absorption Lidar

Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) is employed by ITT’s ANGEL Services to detect natural gas leaks. An Internet delivery service is being developed to facilitate rapid customer access to the results from anywhere in the world. The customer interface will allow map navigation, distance measurements to aid in the results examination, and a hyperlink to connect leak indications with their accompanying JPEG images. The interface and associated data are compatible with ArcGIS 9.3.

Stuart Rich

Leveraging Complimentary Models for Geospatial Representations of Buildings

This talk will present the key to choosing the right technology for managing data related to buildings. The discussion will cover major building modeling technologies currently in use, focusing on suitability for visualization, analysis, and integration with other enterprise systems. The presenter will demonstrate various techniques for visualizing building interiors and exteriors at many different geographic scales and provide regional representations of 3D buildings being used for public safety, space management, environmental monitoring and security.

Eesmyal Santos-Brault

Collaborative Mapping in the Green Building Industry

The criteria of environmental sustainability demand that building technologies and materials be appropriate to their geographic site, yet geo-specific indexing of green building information is rare. Provisions to update, supplement and discuss it are even rarer. The Green Building Brain (www.greenbuildingbrain.org) is a project recently initiated by an interdisciplinary design team in Vancouver, Canada that aims to produce a worldwide, community-generated and community-moderated, geographical database of green buildings, made publicly accessible through an intuitive and interactive web-based interface.

Gary Zhang

A Web-based Enterprise Vector GIS Editing System

This presentation will describe a web-based GIS editing system which uses Oracle Locator to manage spatial data, Scalable Vector Graphics and Microsoft Silverlight to display vector maps, and a client-side JAVA editor to perform vector map editing. The implemented system offers major capabilities such as off-line editing, advanced snapping including line following, COGO support, advanced map cleaning, digital map submittal, revision history tracking for each transaction, data locking, and integrity rule enforcement.

Jinah Kim

High-resolution Coastal Mapping and Geospatial Analysis for Hazard Map

The accuracy of inundation prediction and hazard mapping depends on how accurate the model results are and is determined by (among many other elements) the resolution and accuracy of topographic and bathymetric input information. We have done LiDAR and multibeam bathymetric surveying and have constructed a DEM for coastal mapping that is generated by more than 7 processes based on GIS, such as preprocessing of acquisition data, georeferencing, integration, Terrain/TIN construction, interpolation, and geospatial analysis of topographic change (erosion or deposition).

Chad Swenka

Mashing Distribution Network Status Maps at Entergy

When Entergy decided to publish real-time status of their distribution network online, a new approach to data collection and publication was required. “Mashing” data from the OMS, GIS, and Virtual Earth required a large and varied set of data to be scalable for users during a hurricane/severe weather event. This presentation will explore the various data modeling, architectural, and usability considerations that allowed for this unprecedented level of transparency into outage information.

Haris Kurtagic

Open Access to Geospatial Data Using Open RESTful Web Services

Web 2.0 enables all of us to participate in building content. A critical challenge to participation is interoperability, integrating islands of technology. A particularly simple approach to web services-based distributed computing is Representational State Transfer (REST). In this session, we will present how to expose geospatial/GIS data services over the Web using a RESTful implementation, and provide a hand-on introduction to developing a web site using RESTful web services. Participants are encouraged to bring laptops.

Steve Haflich

Efficient Encoding of 2-D and 3-D Geospatial RDF Data with Near-Linear Search Time

The geospatial community needs RDF databases to reason over ontologies and annotations for geospatial classes and instances. It would be ideal if these RDF databases also could handle basic geospatial operators as fast, or faster, than traditional relational databases with geospatial extensions. We will discuss a new indexing technique that actually achieves this goal.