open data initiatives

Maning Sambale

Disclaimer
My own experience as a data consumer, data producer, tool creator and, tax paying citizen of the Philippines.

Opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my past, present and future employer or anyone else. In addition, my thoughts and opinions change from time to time. This is not anyones fault. Its either the lack of data (at the time I expressed my thoughts) or plainly human nature. ;)

Open Geomatics Data Initiatives
in the Philippines

About Open Data and CultureInitiatives in the Philippines#openDataExcuses

Open data is data that can be
freely used, reused and
redistributed by anyone -
subject only, at most,
to the requirement to
attribute and sharealike.

http://opendatahandbook.org/en/what-is-open-data/

Free Culture Movement

Free GEO Culture
Movement

Free and Open Source Software


Free and Open Formats



Free and Open Content


Free Software MovementRichard Stallman 1983 - GNU Project 1985 - Free Software Foundation

Freedom touse (0), modify (1), redistribute (2), and, redistribute your modifications (3)

(FOSS/FLOSS)Apache LicenseArtistic LicenseBSD LicenseGNU GPLMIT / X11 LicenseMozilla Public Licenseand many more...

Availability of the code is necessary for Open Science "scientific communication relies on evidence that cannot be entirely included in publications", but "anything less than the release of source programs is intolerable for results that depend on computation".

Ince, D.C., et al. (2010). The case for open computer programs. Nature 482, 485488. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7386/full/nature10836.html

Business Models

proprietary software - Pay us money for our last years old code.

open source software - Pay us money and well write new code.

Paul Ramsey - http://www.xyht.com/spatial-itgis/open-source/

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

http://www.osgeo.org/

http://dge.upd.edu.ph/philgeos2014/foss4g-ph-2014/



Free and OpenFormats

Open Geospatial Consortiumhttp://www.opengeospatial.org/

Text - *.txt files

Tables - Comma-separated values *.csv. Never publish tabular data as PDF.

Vector - GeoJSON or KML (small files), Shapefiles (larger files)

Raster - GeoTIFF, larger raster datasets and non-geographical array data, NetCDF




Free and OpenContent

2001Creative Commons

Against DRMCC BYCC BY-SAFree Art LicenseGNU FDLand many more...




How Open is your Data?

0. Published on the web1. Freely licensed (or equivalent)2. Availability of source data3. Use of a free format4. No technical or other restrictions or limitations

Open Data Scorecard

Published on the webhttp://gis.naga.gov.ph/ (old URI)

Freely licensed (or equivalent)Public Domain

Availability of source dataYes

Use of a free formatGML, KML, Shapefile, WMS, WFS

Technical or other restrictions or limitationsNone

Naga City GIS
(under Mayor Robredo)

Published on the webhttp://osm.org http://yolandadata.org

Freely licensed (or equivalent)Open Database License


Use of a free formatYes, virtually any format

Technical or other restrictions or limitationsShare-alike clause of ODbL

OpenStreetMap

Published on the webhttp://noah.dost.gov.ph/

Freely licensed (or equivalent)?

Availability of source dataSome datasets available for raw dowload

Use of a free formatKML, JSON

Technical or other restrictions or limitations?

Project NOAH

Published on the webhttp://data.dswd.gov.ph/

Freely licensed (or equivalent)Public domain (?)


Use of a free formatKML, CSV


DSWD Open Data

Published on the webhttp://data.gov.ph/

Freely licensed (or equivalent)Mixed


Use of a free formatSHP, others through geoportal


data.gov.ph

Published on the webhttp://geoportal.gov.ph/

Freely licensed (or equivalent)?

Availability of source data?

Use of a free format?


Philippine Geoportal

Naga City GIS

OpenStreetMap

Project NOAH

DSWD Open Data

Data.gov.ph

Geoportal.gov.ph

#openDataExcuses

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We all love OPEN DATA, as long as it's not my own data your are asking for. ;)

People will misinterpret the data.

Its too big.
Its too complicated.

Its not very interesting.

Our data is embarrassingly bad.

Its not a priority and were busy.

Some of what you asked for is confidential.

Terrorists might use the data.

People might make money out of our data.

November 11, 2009

dear maning,

we are two totally blind guys who are probably the first users of gps technology here in the philippines.

we already travelled from commonwealth to binondo using our gps
receivers and our talking cellphones and we arrived safely.

that's why we would like to meet with you so we can ask technical info from you to improve our navigating.

...

kindly honor our request because we would like also to be active
contributors to what you are doing in mapping the philippines, well
perhaps to start a new map department for blind travelers.

i typed this letter using a screenreader with speech software, forgive the non capitalization of beginning letters so i can type fast to go with my flow of thought.

god bless you and thank you in advance for your precious time with us.

sincerely,
dick

March 8, 2010

dear manig,

i went back to cabagan, isabela after 15 years and got nostalgic
marking the pois on a motorbike with cousin philip!

i live ecopark and did gps marking too.

quite a good coverage, i think, but need to go back for some that i missed.

hope this will benefit gps users.

thank you.

dick
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Maning Sambale
Maptivist, OSGeo Charter Member, OSM-PH Volunteer, Environmental Science for Social Change
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