Mapping Spatial Data from Multiple Sources

Olivia Gill, Bruce Smith and John Dawson

Explosion of the ‘GeoWeb’

Outdoor navigation

UK TodaySunshine and showers, mainly north. Snowfall over hills. Windy.Frosty start for northern and western areas, rain clearing the southeast. Mixture of sunshine and showers, mainly affecting the north and west, turning heavy, wintry and thundery at times, giving snowfall over hills. Windy, with gales over hills and coasts.

Maps, making data meaningful

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Our maps –

SEWeb – the Challenge

Partners DataMap

services

WMS +REST Services

Useful and accessible?

15+ main partners

Map view• 239 dataset layers• 55 web maps services• Option to toggle the table of contents

- themed maps- choose your data

• Search by postcode, feature, place, NGR• Query features• Dataset layer legend• Non-expert user

LIS – Land information search• SEWeb/FCS• 39 datasets• 9 REST services• Search by postcode, feature, place, NGR• Toggle dataset layers• Functions to draw, save and print• Specific user/tool

Map services – our experiences

• Web Map Service• Standard • Dependencies• When did the URL change?• Functionality / tool constraints

• REST• Improved functionality/query and edit• Non-standard

• WFS?

• What we have + what we are doing: - Data – where do we stop?

- LIS ‘franchise’- WIMA

- Hackathon – apps, maps and collaboration - Data visualisation• What our users want – freedom!• What’s available – our data wishlist or

publically gathered data

Mapping the future

Thank you and any questions?