Jessie Eichar
Jody Garnett
Jeff Lounsbury

User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig)1

Refractions Research●Started uDig in 2004●

Spatial Systems Consulting Company– Victoria BC based– 25 employees– In business for 10 years●

Clients– Canada/US/International– Federal/Provincial/Private Sector

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LISAsoft●

Spatial Systems Integration– Open Standards– Open Source– Australia in Sydney,

Melbourne, Adelaide… and Brisbane●

Clients– Federal / State / Private Sector– OGC3Other Organizations●CampToCamp– Switzerlandand France●HydroloGIS– Based in Italy– Hydrology andGeomorphological analyses●Axios– Based in Spain– Advanced Edit Tools

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So why open source?
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We need to get the job done
– We use open source– We use proprietary●●Open source our own tools allows us to share
maintenance costs
Being active allowed me to meet you(good advertising)●Access to experts●

Sharing development risk

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Geospatial Architecture●

Spatial Database– Concurrency– Transactions– Seamlessness●

Internet Publishing●

Data Manipulation– Direct Access– Editing– Cartography– Feature Access– Map Access

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ESRI ArchitectureWeb Pages

ArcGIS Image Server

ArcGIS ServerArcSDE

ArcGIS

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Open Source Geospatial Architecture

Web PagesuDig

PostGIS8

Open Standards

WMS Context

Web Map Server

Web Feature ServerSFSQLOWS Context

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Directly view WMS●

Directly edit WFS●Search Catalogs●

Integrate standard GIS data●

Hide complexity of network access10Missing Link for Open Source Spatial●Standards GIS Functionality●

Directly Edit GIS data●

Connect to PostGIS, MapServer andGeoServer●Create paper cartography●

Integrate with proprietary infrastructures11

User-friendly●Direct hands on experience– Drag and Drop
– Responsive user interface●Sensible defaults– optimize for the 90% use case
– Make use of all the information●Consistency

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Desktop●A normal Desktop Application●

Desktop integration; drag and drop●

Native OS widgets

13Internet●

Web Map Server●

Web Feature Server●

Catalog Service Web●

Open Web Map Context

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GIS
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Working with local data●

Integrate with existing infrastructure●

Paper Cartography

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uDig Software Developers Kit●

the best of the open source stack– Plug-in System – Eclipse RCP– Topology – JTS– Standards Support – GeoTools●

Not limited to just Java
– ImageIO-Ext project bridging GDAL to JAI– OSSIM integration●LGPL means no per seat license

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Successful Projects●DIVA GIS
– Front end to data-warehouse using R for stats●JGRASS– Hydrology Project now in the help menu

●Axios– Advanced Editing Tools●

LISAsoft– SLIP Tile Download Plugin●Refractions– Populations at Risk, Line Matcher, etc...

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DIVA GIS

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JGrass19

JGrass20

JGrass21

JGrass Hydrology

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Axios Spatial Operations

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Axios Spatial Operations - Buffer24

Line Cleaner

25Eurobios Route Optimization Engine

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Eurobios Route Optimization Engine

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52º North●

From the city of Münster Germany●

OGC Web Processing Client●

Chaining of data services within the processrequest●

Manage multiple WPS instances●Log interaction with Ganymede plugin2852º North29

Arbonaut●●

Arbonaut – private company out of Helsinki,
ArboGIS - automation for forest inventory
update– Extract forest stand information from aerialmaps– Attach information from old inventory to newstands●TAAKA30

Arbonaunt - ArboGIS

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Arbonaut - ArboGIS32Arbonaut - TAAKA33

Arbonaut - TAAKA

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Open University of the UK – EcoSensus

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Souwhat.com

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So Many Projects●

Eurobios Routing●

Souwhat.com●Line Cleaner●Jgrass●

KuvioGIS●

52º North●TAAKA●

Axios's Spatial Ops●

DivaGIS●SOC Transformations●

Populations @ Risk●●

EU GeoVistaAll the ones I was notallowed to talkabout...

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Walkthrough 1●

Grab a friend(or make a new one)●

Grab a workbook●

It's time to meet uDig38