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OpenStreetMap and INSPIRE: Can the twain meet ? Just van den Broecke FOSS4G www.justobjects.nl Denver (CO), USA just@justobjects.nl Sept 14, 2011

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, Oh, East is East, and West is West, “ and never the twain shall meet” and never the twain shall meet” Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, 1889 Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, 1889

“Never the twain shall meet” Two things which are so different as to have no opportunity to unite. Twain derives from the Old English twegen , meaning two . The phrase “never the twain shall meet” was used by Rudyard Kipling , in The Ballad of East and West (1889): "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." There, Kipling is supposedly lamenting the misunderstandings between the British and the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent. http://feastoflanguages.com/?p=586

Collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world “The Wikipedia of Maps” www.openstreetmap.org

EU legislation to create a pan- European Union SDI ● sharing spatial information among EU public sector organisations ● public access to spatial information across Europe “The Euro for Geodata and Maps” http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu

try to create, maintain and provide maps and data

SDI SDI

Common Objectives ● Vendor (Google/Yahoo/MS/..) neutral ● Free from proprietary mapping monopolies ● Adopt common set of standards/APIs ● Seamless, cross-border maps & data ● Not just maps, also raw data

Maps & data for any purpose ● Maps: base, topo, thematic ● Routing ● Name search ● Disaster management ● ...

Diffs – Process formal informal top-down bottom-up legislation spontaneous hierarchy network waterfall agile paid volunteered

Diffs – Standards implementation 1st standards 1st community committee lightweight (tags) heavyweight (GML) living frozen

Diffs – License Services/data Services/data multiple-options open/reusable free-->closed ODBL unclear Tools Tools up to NMCAs mainly FOSS FOSS/proprietary some proprietary

Diffs – End-users public admins anyone anyone ?

PoC NMCA-to-OSM-to-INSPIRE “OpenStreetMap as Esperanto”

http://inspire-foss.org ● FOSS for INSPIRE ● Google Code Project ● Mailing List

deegree INSPIRE Node

inspire-foss.org – ETL GDAL/OGR XSLT NMCA INSPIRE specific GML data

Multiple ETLs . .

inspire-foss.org – osm2inspire GDAL/OGR XSLT OSM INSPIRE Planet GML Data

OSM Esperanto OSM OSM2 Import INSPIRE OSM INSPIRE Data GML . .

Quoting Kipling Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_East_and_West