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UCL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS. GENeSIS. Browsing the Geospatial Web: Making Thematic Maps and Exploiting Free Sources of Data Richard Milton, CASA. Visualising Bike Share Oliver O’Brien, CASA. Wednesday, 1 st December 2010 - 1700. The MapTube Architecture. Web Server.
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UCL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS GENeSIS Browsing the Geospatial Web: Making Thematic Maps and Exploiting Free Sources of Data Richard Milton, CASA Visualising Bike Share Oliver O’Brien, CASA Wednesday, 1st December 2010 - 1700
The MapTube Architecture Web Server Virtualisation Server MapTube VM: MapTubeD DataDrop VM: Database Server VM: TOTeM SurveyMapper VM: Twitter x 4 VM: Simulacra 8GB Dual Quad Core 300GB MapTube has 9,548 users and 614 maps 32GB Dual Hex Core (HT) 1.8TB
Current Projects The Mayor’s Office Safer Parks Survey, 28th September 2010 Drinking Water Quality Regulator for Scotland British Library Tweetometer The BBC Living Longer Series, November 2010
DataStores A bibliography with API access and some SPARQL endpoints (Education and Transport) Direct access to CSV data, API access to Trackernet Twitter and RSS for new datasets
The “WebMapCreator”crowd-sourcing maps on the web Web Server MapTube DataDrop “Some Data” Virtualisation Server VM: MapTubeD VM: Database Server DEMO
MapTubeDTile Rendering for Web-Based Maps Geometry Database Geometry Stream Data Stream Join Custom Geometry Point Geometry Choropleth Point Heatmap Weather Tile Renderers
Applications Population Environment Transport Retail Property
World Shipping: VOS and AIS 13th to 30th April 2010 (6H, 12H, 18H) – 49,208 clickable points http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/amp/mmop/JCOMM/OPA/SOT/vos.html http://www.vesseltracker.com
Weather [MOVIE]
Aircraft: ADS-B and ACARSwhy’s that star moving? 413,360 points from 22nd November 2010 http://www.flightradar24.com [MOVIE]
House Prices Houseprices.co.uk, nethouseprices.com, and more...
Retail GPS Files, Points of Interest and web scraping [Movie]
Trains, Tube Strikes, Twitter and APIs Twitter 29 Nov 2010 13Z (24,575 points)
And Finallysorting and searching 614 maps (nodes) 32875 edges Searching Data-Mining
Any Questions? Browsing the Geospatial Web: Making Thematic Maps and Exploiting Free Sources of Data Richard Milton, CASA