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Deborah Hafford, Manager State and Local [email protected]
Jason Cain, Google Earth Sales Engineer
Special guests: Chris Powell and Rod Erickson, NT Concepts
Host your geospatial data with Google Earth Builder
June 15, 2011
Agenda
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Introductions
RFI questions
Demonstration
Q&A
100% Web - a new model for IT
Delivered through browserNo client software, internet as platformScalable, secure, global, sharedLeverage massive shared computing capacitySubscription modelPay for what you use, no hardware or software neededAccess from any deviceInexpensive devices as portals to informationNo upgrades requiredAlways on the latest release
Google Confidential and Proprietary
Google Earth Builder
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Google's mapping platform in the cloud
Host your geospatial data with Google Earth Builder
Google Confidential and Proprietary
● Upload your geospatial data to Google's infrastructure● Publish finished Maps with your data from Google Earth Builder● View usage metrics for published Maps
End users can consume maps from many platforms
Planning your Map
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Define goals for the Maps to be built
● What data would you like visitors to access?○ Which imagery?○ Which vector?○ How often will data be refreshed?○ Importance: Storage needs for Google Earth Builder and data
upload
● Who should be able to the datasets?○ Which data will be publicly available?○ Which data are restricted?○ Importance: Pageview needs for Google Earth Builder
Planning your Map
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○ Team to build and publish the data■ Account Administrator■ Map Authors■ Web developers■ Importance: User account access within Google
Earth Builder
○ How do you want to share data with viewers?■ Google Earth■ Google Earth API■ Maps■ WMS
Setting up your account
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Set up the Google Earth Builder (GEB) account
● Map authors○ Designated team to access the GEB web interface
● Provider information○ Attribution for datasets
● Access Control Lists (ACLs)○ Data within GEB interface○ Published Maps from GEB
Uploading data to Google Earth Builder
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Source data to use within Google Earth Builder must be uploaded to Google infrastructure
Three methods for upload:
1. Google Earth Builder Web Interface2. Ship hard drive3. Remote feed
Creating your Map
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Preparing datasets to share and publish
● Select which source data to upload● Create collections of datasets● Share building blocks with other users● Publish completed Maps for end users● Importance: Data sharing, storage, page views
Publishing your Map
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Publishing Maps for user access
Publishing your Map
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Publishing Maps for user access
GIS Desktop
Earth APIGoogle Earth
Google Earth Builder pricing for Western States
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Google Earth Builder pricing strives for simplicity.
It's the Gmail/Google Apps principal applied to Geo.
● You buy storage, ● You buy page views, ● You can scale in either dimension● You never have to worry about planning for traffic spikes, dealing with failover,
buying more storage or anything else.
Google will create a purchasing vehicle for all members of the Western State alliance.
Data Liberation and Security
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A guiding principle of all Google products is to allow our customers to retrieve their data as easily as possible.
The Data Liberation Front (www.dataliberation.org) is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. This is our mission statement:
Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google's products. Our team's goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.
FISMA for Google Earth Builder
Google is working to attain FISMA accreditation and certification. This is being done as part of an existing contract with a large Federal customer.
Recap: Google Earth Builder
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● Google Earth Builder Google's hosted geospatial platform
● Organizations can upload existing geospatial imagery and vector datasets to Google Earth Builder to distribute with internal and external audiences
● Uploaded data may be shared
● Pricing based on storage and number of page views
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Few Can Benefit More Than Government
State of Colorado
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earth.google.com/builder