Drupal and the Geospatial Web

Jeff Miccolis @miccolisDevelopment Seed

Andrew Turner @ajturnerFortiusOne - GeoCommons

Jeff Miccolis@miccolisDevelopment Seed

Andrew Turner@ajturnerFortiusOne - GeoCommons

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Drupal...

@miccolis

Why maps?

Drupal

Gmap module

Google maps

CMS

Module

Display

Data Google‘s mapdata

Drupal

Custom module

Custom php script

Young’s drawing

CMS

Module

Display

Data

Drupal

Custom

Map data somebody had...

CMS

Module

Display

Data

mapnik

mapnik?

• “Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps. “

• http://mapnik.org/

We’ve got problems.

• Language

• History

• Usage

• Privacy

• Look

We’ve got problems.

• Language

• History

• Usage

• Privacy

• Look

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_USA_VA.svg

We’ve got problems.

• Language

• History

• Usage

• Privacy

• Look

We’ve got problems.

• Language

• History

• Usage

• Privacy

• Look

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vonbergendotnet/2496411369/

We’ve got problems.

• Language

• History

• Usage

• Privacy

• Look

Drupal

?

Cloudmade

Open Street Maps

CMS

Module

Display

Data

We’ve got problems.

• Language

• History

• Usage

• Privacy

• Look

We’ve got options.

• CMS

• Modules

• Display

• Data

kidding :)

We’ve got options.

• CMS

• Modules

• Display

• Data

Drupal

Gmap module

Google maps

Google’s mapdata

CMS

Module

Display

Data

Drupal

Mapstraction module

Google maps

Google’s mapdata

CMS

Module

Display

Data

mapstraction?

• “Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible.”

• Support for eleven mapping providers.

• http://www.mapstraction.com/

• http://drupal.org/project/mapstraction

We’ve got options.

• CMS

• Modules

• Display

• Data

Drupal

Mapstraction module

Cloudmade

Open Street Maps

CMS

Module

Display

Data

Drupal

Mapstraction module

Free Earth

Satellite imagery

CMS

Module

Display

Data

Drupal

Mapstraction module

Free Earth

Satellite imagery

CMS

Module

Display

Data

Drupal

Nice map module

NASA

Satellite imagery

CMS

Module

Display

Data

Nice map?

• “Nice Map is a WMS client for Drupal.”

• http://drupal.org/project/nicemap

WMS?

• “An Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service (WMS) produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information.”

• http://www.opengeospatial.org/

We’ve got options.

• CMS

• Modules

• Display

• Data

Drupal

Nice map module

Mapnik

Whatever I can get my hands on!

CMS

Module

Display

Data

We’ve got options.

• CMS

• Modules

• Display

• Data

Was he really kidding about Drupal?

cut to Andrew...

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...and the Geospatial Web

@ajturner

What is this Geospatial Web?

The Web

The Drupal Web http://www.aharef.info

The Geospatial Web

unread POI’s 1000+

Life Digitized

OK - so how is the Geospatial Web different?

http://flickr.com/photos/wolfsoul/1352149315

Formats

Create

Publish

Aggregate

Consume

Exif GeoRSS KML GeocodingGPX

GeoRSS KML Microformats MachineTags

GML KML GeoRSS GeoJSONWFS

!

!

Standards Organizations

NOAA WMS

WMS Request

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/eog/maps/cgi-bin/public/ms/poster?LAYERS=nighttime_lights_f152003&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&EXCEPTIONS=application%2Fvnd.ogc.se_inimage&FORMAT=image%2Fjpeg&SRS=EPSG%3A4326&BBOX=53.81333333,-90.000,170.7208,26.906666&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256

Where’s my vector data?

http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

WFS Request

http://giswebservices.massgis.state.ma.us/geoserver/wfs?request=getfeature&version=1.0.0&service=wfs&propertyname=TOWN,POP2000&typename=massgis:GISDATA.TOWNS_POLYM&filter=%3CFilter+xmlns=%22http://www.opengis.net/ogc%22%3E%3CPropertyIsGreaterThan%3E%3CPropertyName%3EPOP2000%3C/PropertyName%3E%3CLiteral%3E100000%3C/Literal%3E%3C/PropertyIsGreaterThan%3E%3C/Filter%3E

WFS GML Response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><wfs:FeatureCollection xmlns:wfs="http://www.opengis.net/wfs" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" xmlns:massgis="http://massgis.state.ma.us/featuretype" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://massgis.state.ma.us/featuretype http://giswebservices.massgis.state.ma.us/geoserver/wfs/DescribeFeatureType?typeName=massgis:GISDATA.TOWNS_POLYM http://www.opengis.net/wfs http://giswebservices.massgis.state.ma.us/geoserver/schemas/wfs/1.0.0/WFS-basic.xsd"> <gml:boundedBy> <gml:Box srsName="http://www.opengis.net/gml/srs/epsg.xml#26986"> <gml:coordinates xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml" decimal="." cs="," ts=" " >107210.18360951201,868673.000913621 252005.57369636302,935123.120655508</gml:coordinates> </gml:Box> </gml:boundedBy></wfs:FeatureCollection>

Does it really have to be that hard?

http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

GeoRSS http://georss.org

GeoRSS http://georss.org

+

GeoRSS http://georss.org

<georss:point>45.256 -71.92

</georss:point>+

USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/

FriendFeed

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KML

http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlreference.html

GeoJSON

{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [100.0, 0.0] }

Drupal Modules FeedAPI

• FeedAPI

• KML Module

• GeoRSS Module

• NiceMap (WMS)

• Atom

But how do I query data?

http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

OpenSearch

OpenSearch Template

http://example.com/search?keyword={searchTerms}&limit={count?}&page={startPage?}

requiredoptional?

OpenSearch-Geo

http://geo.example.com/search.atom?keyword={searchTerms}&location={geo:locationString?}&lat={geo:lat?}&lon={geo:lon?}&distance={geo:radius?}&bbox={geo:box?}

Where is the GeoREST?

http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/04/100000000-geotagged-photos-plus/

KML + GeoRSS+HTML http://highearthorbit.com/a-proposal-georss-kml

AtomPub-Geo

Create

Publish

Aggregate

Consume

Exif GeoRSS KML GeocodingGPX

GeoRSS KML Microformats MachineTags

GML KML GeoRSS GeoJSONWFS

http://flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/1217587004

Data

Flickr Export

Google Picasa + Panoramio

GeoWeb2.0

What else is there besides blog posts?

Real-Time Data

User-Generated Content http://nowpublic.com/tag/DrupalCon/scan

Local Governments http://data.octo.dc.gov

National Governments http://www.recovery.gov/

Inter-Government http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Global NGO http://ungiwg.org

Registries http://geonetwork.org

Repositories & Aggregators

http://geocommons.com

But I’m already using GoogleMaps.

GoogleMaps http://maps.google.com

Design

Usability

Data Ownership and Access

Data Ownership and Access

Data Coverage and Quality

Data Coverage and Quality

OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

OSM in Flickr

OpenAerialMap http://openaerialmap.org

ODbL Open Database License

http://www.opendatacommons.org/

http://flickr.com/photos/wwworks/1384952210

Community

“Geowankers” yes, you heard me correctly

http://flickr.com/photos/x180/2494170626/

OSGeo http://osgeo.org

OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

Mapping Parties

Mappers Anonymous

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StatsExponential Growth

Geo-Web-Resthttp://groups.google.com/group/geo-web-rest

GeoRSShttp://georss.org

GeoJSONhttp://geojson.org

geowankinghttp://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking

Geo Communities

#osgeo

#mapnik

#osm

#openlayers

#et al.

http://flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/2326448445

And why is thisimportant to me?

Apps for Democracy

A Drupal Example

A Drupal Example

KML

A Drupal Example

KML

GeoRSS

A Drupal Example

KML

GeoRSS

WMS

A Drupal Example

KML

GeoRSS

WMS

A Drupal Example

KML

GeoRSS

WMS

A Drupal Example

KML

GeoRSS

WMS

A GeoWeb Example

A GeoWeb Example

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Drupal and the Geospatial Web

Jeff Miccolis - @miccolisDevelopment Seed

Andrew Turner - @ajturnerFortiusOne - GeoCommons