[OSGeo-UK] OSM-GB Workshop - 5th Sep 2012

[Suchith Anand]

Open Street Map for Great Britain (OSM-GB)  Workshop

5th September 2012

Workshop leaders: Amir Pourabdollah, Jeremy Morley (NGI)

Initiated at Nottingham Geospatial Institute (NGI) at the University of Nottingham , the OSM-GB project is a collaborative research programme with 1Spatial and KnowWhere.  The project aims to  apply 1Spatial's rules based geodata quality tools to a GB extract of OSM. The resulting "improved" and structured data will be projected into British National Grid and served as an OGC Web Map Service and Web Feature Service.

There are two main strands of research:

# Applying rules based quality improvement processes to OSM to identify possible errors and after some experiment and refining of the rules potentially to automatically correct some geometric and attribute errors. The "improved" dataset will be available for download from the OSM-GB web site and could be offered back to the main OSM database (probably as a basis for further inspection prior to incorporation).

# By making the "improved" data available via standards based web services, it is hoped that public sector users in both central and local government will be encouraged to experiment with OSM and identify potential use cases for OSM that are not met by the geodata currently available through the PSMA. A number of organisations have already confirmed interest in accessing OSM-GB.

For more details of the project visit http://www.osmgb.org.uk/

This workshop will cover the following topics

*             Basic introduction to OSM-GB

*             How you can access various Web Services for OSM-GB data.

o             Tile Service: Serving map tiles in PNG format.
o             WMS: The maps are available as a multi-layered WMS (Web Map Service).
o             WMS-C: This service provides WMS through a cached tile repository (Web Map Services - Cached).
o             WMS for Bugs: This is a another WMS set up for quality detection/improvement.
o             WFS: This service provides the raw vector data through OGC's WFS, encoded in a number of standards.

*             How you can be involved with OSM-GB Community

Full details and workshop schedule at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx

We look forward to see you at OSGIS 2012.


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