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Building Open Source Projects in Government Esri Ecosystems Lyzi Diamond FOSS4G 2014 | Portland, OR | September 10, 2014 Road designed by Juan Pablo Bravo from the thenounproject.com This talk is about building open source web applications

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Building Open Source Projects in Government Esri Ecosystems

Lyzi Diamond FOSS4G 2014 | Portland, OR | September 10, 2014

Road designed by Juan Pablo Bravo from the thenounproject.com

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This talk is about building open source web applications with government GIS data.

Trail View Hiker designed by Luis Prado from the thenounproject.com

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This is a two-way street.

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Every day at Code for America, we work with local governments to build applications that:

  • use open data from a variety of

sources;

  • are typically constituent-facing

web applications;

  • are manageable by the city;
  • attack government problems with

small, technological solutions;

  • encourage the civic technology

community to stay active; and

  • are designed to stay updated

and sustained.

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Esri is clearly the dominant vendor in enterprise GIS. Civic technologists just need to learn how to play nice with it.

Address designed by Richard Cordero from the thenounproject.com

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So let’s talk about how we can build an open- source web application inside of an Esri technology stack.

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STEP ONE: Understand the ecosystem infrastructure.

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I am neither a backend developer nor a sysadmin. I just like GIS and maps and open source. Take everything I say with a grain of salt.

DISCLAIMER:

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ArcGIS for Server

  • r

ArcGIS Online

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Web applications == web access to data.

  • (Plus: open.)
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The main idea: Use what you have. DO LESS.

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STEP TWO: Identify the data you need for your project.

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NOTE: Is the data you want protected? NOTE: Does the data you want have information that can’t be shared in bulk? NOTE: Who owns the data? NOTE: How is the data stored?

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STEP THREE: Enable access to the data.

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Publish hosted, publicly- accessible layers with Esri tools to enable API access.

http://bit.ly/esri-publish

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Open data portals, too.

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STEP FOUR: Extract, transform, load (celebrate)

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Extract.

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Transform.

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Load.

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Repeat.

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EXAMPLE #1: Citygram and Spyglass

http://seattlegram.herokuapp.com

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Citygram: location-based, opt-in text message and email notifications about city services.

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Spyglass: ETL layer that pulls data from APIs, conforms data for use in Citygram (to GeoJSON), caches data.

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EXAMPLE #2: OpenTrails Data Converter

http://open-trails.herokuapp.com

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http://opentraildata.org OpenTrails: A data standard for enabling parks to undertake quality digital user experience design.

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OpenTrails Converter: A tool for converting trail data (shapefiles) to OpenTrails format.

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EXAMPLE #3: Lexington Geocoder

http://lexington-geocoder.herokuapp.com

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Lexington Geocoder: Uses open parcel data and ElasticSearch to do fuzzy matching on addresses.

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You can see many more projects and examples on Code for America’s GitHub: http://github.com/ codeforamerica

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Other considerations:

  • Hosting applications
  • Changing infrastructure

and data storage

  • Relationship

management

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SHAMELESS PLUGS: Code for America Brigades and Maptime chapters can help!

  • http://codeforamerica.org/brigade

http://maptime.io

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This talk was about building

  • pen source web

applications with government GIS data.

Trail View Hiker designed by Luis Prado from the thenounproject.com

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It is not that difficult, and certainly not impossible.

Trail View Hiker designed by Luis Prado from the thenounproject.com

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Opening government data is a big deal.

  • You are a champion.
  • Keep doing the

hard work.

  • It’s worth it.

Trail View Hiker designed by Luis Prado from the thenounproject.com

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Thanks!

Lyzi Diamond | @lyzidiamond | lyzi@codeforamerica.org Slides: http://bit.ly/lyzi-foss4g

  • Come to the Maptime party tonight!

Road designed by Juan Pablo Bravo from the thenounproject.com