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CANTERBURY PLUGFEST:
Geospatial Interoperability Works!
Maurits van der Vlugt
Mercury Project Solutions
Richard Murcott | Geospatial Standards Leader
New Zealand Geospatial Office
Overview
� Background
� Data Sharing Challenges
� Solution: a Plugfest!
� Should you consider hosting one yourself?
Kyle Dow, Senior Data Analyst, Corporate Data Team, CCC
2010-11 Christchurch Earthquakes
�4 Sept. 20107.1 magnitude
�22 February 20116.3 magnitude
- 185 dead
- NZ’s costliest disaster
Post Feb 2011 – Recovery Period
� Council Systems Intact!
� Data Sharing
� Council
� EM Agencies
� Civil Defence
� Utilities
� Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
� Environment Canterbury (ECAN)
� Etc5
� Initially: Sneakernet5
Kyle Dow, Senior Data Analyst, Corporate Data Team, CCC
Next step: Interoperable Supply
Wait: Death by Acronym!
WFS:
Web Feature Service
Kyle Dow, Senior Data Analyst, Corporate Data Team, CCC
Next step: Interoperable Supply
Kyle Dow, Senior Data Analyst, Corporate Data Team, CCC
WFS for Data Supply Works
Kyle Dow, Senior Data Analyst, Corporate Data Team, CCC
Next step: Receiving Data?
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Same Issues, but/
� Christchurch City holds
Authoritative Data, e.g5
� WasteWater
� Building Status
� Construction partners manually
submit data in variety of formats
� Time & Money wasted on data
loading & management
� WFS has no capability to receive
updates through interoperable web
services
Transactional Web Service: WFS-T
� WFS: Geometry & Attributes - “Read Only”
� WFS-T: As WFS + “Create, Update, Delete”
� CCC + Partners struggled to successfully
enable WFS-T
� OGC compliance of their Software?
� Schema harmonisation?
� “Too hard” basket?
What they needed:
� Transactional Interoperability between
recovery partners:
� CERA, CCC, SCIRT
� ESRI, Integraph
� OGC Standards (NZGO SDI Cookbook)
� Practical, short-term solution (can’t wait)
� Focus on issues with existing (OGC)
standards interfaces, notably WFS-T
� Immediate results that will accelerate
recovery & reconstruction efforts
Solution: WFS-T Plugfest
� Short Duration
� Collaborative
� Hands-on
� Independent Facilitation & WFS-T Architect
� “Just Make it Work”
� Two Use-Case
scenarios
� Set-up Data and
Services
� Implement end-to-
end Interoperability
� Live Demo
� All in 3 days!
Technology Agnostic
Organisation Technologies
CCC Intergraph GeoMedia Pro
Intergraph GeoMedia WebMap
SCIRT ESRI ArcGIS Server
ESRI ArcGIS Desktop
Safe Software – FME
WFS ‘Pump script’
CERA Benoli Silverfish
ESRI GeoDatabase
WFS ‘Pump script’
InsureCorp* Pitney Bowes Software MapInfo
Professional
* fictitious name to protect any commercial interests
Before and After
Lessons Learned
� Interoperability works!
� WFS: Mature
� COTS WFS-T Servers: Mature
� COTS WFS-T Clients: Maturing
�WFS/WFS-T Schema Sensitive
� Good Community Schema is important
�Submitting to WFS-T requires scripting
or Client plug-ins
Conclusions
� Plugfest model is highly
effective to achieve hands-on
practical interoperability
� Demonstrated viable solution
architecture with immediate
business benefits
� Achieved in 3-day Plugfest,
what would have taken weeks
(effort) or months (elapsed)
otherwise
THANK YOU
More Information:http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/christchurch-plugfest-2012-report
Maurits van der Vlugt
Twitter: @mvandervlugt
Richard Murcott
