Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 8 juillet 2013, Bruxelles Brussels UrbIS High quality geodata and services for free Eric Auquière
What's UrbIS? UrbIS Data Applications = Urban Information System Services 2
Special thanks to... Data Claude HANNECART Liliane D'ARRAS Sébastien DEFRANCE Michel DE SWAENE Henri JARDEZ Arthur SCHRYERS Thierry VON WASSERMAN Applications and Services Georges CHARLOT Jean-Paul DZISIAK Karl DETERME Vincent STREIGNARD Fabien KRZEWINSKI Nicolas GILLARD 3
The begnning of UrbIS : 7 years of hard w Paper maps digitalisation and documents coding from various sources (cadastre, public works) at various scales (1:500 to 1:3000) 1985 1992 First distribution in October 1992 4
First distribution of UrbIS 1 in 1992 CONTENT Municipal boundaries Building blocks Statistical and Monitoring Districts Postal ZIP Address Police Number and Address Points Street area, street names Crossroads Cadastral maps (without buildings) and registry 5 distributions between 1992 and 1996 5
UrbIS 2 : airborne data acquisition PROBLEMS Lack of accuracy No buildings, no street boundaries PROJECT Large scale topograhic map Partnership between Brussels Region and Utility Sector Data acquisition via aerial surveys UrbIS 2 2002 6
UrbIS 2 : 6 products UrbIS-Fot UrbIS-Adm UrbIS-Ortho UrbIS-P&B UrbIS-Topo UrbIS-Map 7
Users 8
A decade of important changes KEY EVENTS 2000 2002 2007 2007 : : : : GPS signal liberalisation Memorandum of understanding on INSPIRE Google Maps Belgium I Phone commercialisation CIRB 2001 : in charge of all the missions dedicated to UrbIS 2006 : sole owner of UrbIS (departure of utility sector) 9
New means - New strategy PROBLEMS Long delays between releases terrain changes and data updates Surveys Terrain change (data acquisition) Reduce time Production Diffusion between (data updates) (through web) terrain change and Distribution data access (of files) 10
Strategy Implementation MAIN PROJECTS Data acquisition Implementation of production chain Data file distribution Licences Implementation of a Spatial Data Infrastructure Crowd sourcing 11
What's UrbIS? UrbIS Data Applications = Urban Information System Services 12
Massive data acquisition through... AERIAL SURVEYS 1996 2012 2001 Vertical photos (7.5 cm) 2004 Oblique photos 2009 LIDAR data (32 pts/m²) 2012 3D data 13
Massive data acquisition through... TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS Since 2007 14
Implementation of a new production chain UrbIS aas UrbIS aas 15
Implementation of a new production chain MAIN RESULTS Production database is updated daily Distribution and diffusion databases are updated weekly Web services (diffusion) are updated weekly Distribution files are updated every quarter 16
Data files distribution UrbIS aas UrbIS aas 17
Data files distribution 1992 2007 : CD, e-mails 2007 2013 : data distribution through IRISbox (with eid) 2013 : Irisbox without eid UrbIS download 18
Licence policy Until 2009 : Middle Age Fees Restrictive licence 2009 : Renaissance Free for all New licence - no commercial re-use 2013 : Contemporary Period Free for all Open data licence 19
Open data licence HISTORY Project introduced by Minister Brigitte Grouwels Work group between CIRB and Bruxelles Mobilité The ETALAB licence chosen as reference and adapted to belgian laws Minister agreement in December 2012 Adoption for UrbIS data the 1st of April 2013 CHARACTERISTICS Data free of charge (this is not new) Re-usability even for commercial purpose Legal protection for the producer and the user Compatibility with other open data licences Paternity mention mandatory 20
First success : integration of UrbIS into OS UrbIS Map Service Open Street Map 21
What's UrbIS? UrbIS Data Applications = Urban Information System Services 22
Implementation of a Spatial Data Infrastru UrbIS aas UrbIS aas 23
Spatial Data Infrastructure Hardware Software Data Web services 17/11/2011 24
Hardware & software 17/11/2011 25
Web services Map services : WMS/WFS/WMTS Web services : Geocoding and reverse geocoding Drill through Advantages Data are synchronised with the production database every weeks 17/11/2011 26
Is it performant? Election week-end Oct. 2012 1 millions hits in 48 hours 100.000 hits in 1 hour 17/11/2011 27
What's UrbIS? UrbIS Data Applications = Urban Information System Services 28
Crowd sourcing through UrbIS aas UrbIS aas UrbIS aas 17/11/2011 29
Crowd sourcing through UrbIS aas UrbIS aas UrbIS as a Service wishes to fill this gap in the provision of geospatial services by offering a low-cost, effective, easily implementable solution that can be customized to each specific client s need UrbIS as a Service addresses a key need for the communes and administrative bodies for the Brussels Region in terms of providing collaborative solutions for geospatial inventory and analysis 17/11/2011 30
Crowd sourcing through UrbIS aas Realized since February 2012 Trees inventory Street signs inventory (2) Floods inventory Research institutions inventory Public works Street furnitures inventory Image storage and geocoding Sports associations and infrastructures inventory 17/11/2011 31
Floods inventory 17/11/2011 32
Next... CIRB PROJECTS New airborne surveys Data historisation 3D data (topo, DTM, buildings) distribution and diffusion Oblique image visualisation tool selection Open data platform consolidation Open services and open APIs REGIONAL PROJECTS Brussels geoportal (INSPIRE) Regional data inventory (metadata catalogue) Map services mash up Open data 17/11/2011 33
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