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AWS Government, Education, and Nonprofit Symposium

Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015


Washington, DC I June 25-26, 2015©2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Open GIS Data

Jed Sundwall

Open Data, AWS



Agenda

• Open data on AWS

• Jaques Tardie, Snapsat

• Ian Dees, OpenAddresses & OpenStreetmap

• Chris Rasmussen, NGA



What is open data?Open data is data that can be used by anyone for any purpose for free.

Many of our customers, such as Esri, the Weather Company, and the

Climate Corporation, rely on quality open data as much as they rely on our

computing, storage, and other web services.



Open data on AWSMaking data open on AWS enables more innovation by making data

available for rapid access to our flexible and low-cost computing

resources.

Amazon S3Bucket

AmazonEMR

AmazonEC2

AWSLambda

AmazonRedshift

AmazonDynamoDB



Landsat – big open dataThe Landsat program is a joint effort of

the U.S. Geological Survey and

NASA. It is the longest running

program to gather Earth imagery from

space and is considered the gold

standard for natural resources satellite

imagery.

It can be time-consuming and

expensive to acquire, store, and

analyze Landsat data.



Landsat on AWSAWS has committed to make up to 1

petabyte of Landsat imagery available

through the AWS Public Data Set

program.

Over 170,000 Landsat 8 scenes are

available now, and about 700 are

added every day.

Now anyone can analyze Landsat

data at web scale with no up-front

investment of time or capital expense.



Landsat on AWSSince March 19 launch:

• 270 million hits from 147 countries

• >3 million hits per day on average

• 19TB of data transferred per day

• 2 brand new applications: Snapsat and

Astro Digital browser

• Fueling new product development from

Mapbox, Esri, CartoDB, MathWorks,

and Development Seed





Snapsat: Making Landsat imagery accessible

Jacques Tardie

Co-founder, Snapsat



The cost of working with geospatial data has

plummeted, thanks to:

• Technological innovation

• Open source culture

• Open data



Brilliant. this is the greatest leap in

facilitating the use of satellite data I’ve ever

seen. In 1990, it was a US$50K SGI

workstation (three colours!), a separate

US$20 K machine to run the tapes +

US$20K of software. Oh, and each image

cost US$625.



It’s getting better, but…



The learning curve remains steep



The old process required:

• Understanding the command line.

• Knowing which tools to install

• Knowing how to configure them

• Time

• Bandwidth



The new process requires:

• A browser

• A mouse

• A few clicks



We flattened the curve



Why now, and why us?



What does the future look like?



Special thanks to:

• Amazon Web Services

• Jed Sundwall

• Code Fellows

• Cris Ewing



Email us

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]





Collecting the World’s

Open Address DataIan Dees / @iandees

OpenAddresses & OpenStreetmap



Problems we’re trying to solve

• Addresses are the human interface to geographic data

• A map isn’t usable by humans until they can locate themselves

• Street address is where everyone starts

• Geocoders are the software that translates from an address to a point on the map



Problems we’re trying to solve

• Make it easier to build geocoders

• Improve and promote access to open data

• Share data improvements



Existing projects

• OpenStreetMap

– 51M addresses, 30K monthly active users

• OpenAddresses.org

• OpenAddressesUK



Our project

• http://openaddresses.io

• Crowd-sourced list of ~1000 open data sources

• Contributions are made through Github

• Software stack to download and transform

• 127M points, 64 contributors

http://openaddresses.io



Our project

• Output is bare minimum right now:lat, lon, house #, street, city, state, postcode

• We keep source data, so new outputs are

trivial



Where to next?

• Crowd-sourcing points isn’t sustainable,

we need more authoritative datasets

• Convince entities to release data to the

public

• Lots to do internationally, but still plenty to

do in the US



Where to next?

• Feedback mechanism

• Licensing

• Organization



Thank You.This presentation will be loaded to SlideShare the week following the Symposium.

http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices



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