PublicaMundi

Scalable and Reusable Open Geospatial Data

PublicaMundi Vision

• Open Geospatial Data Catalogue:
  • Geospatial metadata and data as first-class citizens
  • Simplifies publishing, discovery, and reuse
  • Automates provision of interactive maps and value added services (OGC, JS data/mapping APIs) for geospatial data
• Open Data Catalogue:
  • Full support for generic purpose open data publishing
• INSPIRE-compatible SDI:
  • Full OGC compliance

What is PublicaMundi

A Geospatial Data Infrastructure, handling the entire lifecycle of geospatial data sharing, discovery, use, and reuse

• Simple to use for everyone
• Automates data handling and service provision
• Data Economy-ready (OGC, interactive maps, Data/Mapping APIs)
• Data equality and Big Data-ready
• Cloud-based, scalable, and cost effective (PaaS/SaaS)
• Versatile, multi-purpose, and future proof
• Open in its heart (open source, open standards, open data)

Who is it for? (Public Sector)

• De facto compliance with INSPIRE, OGC, and Open Data policies/standards
• Versatile and multi-role; start small and grow according to needs
• Roles supported (all available out of the box)
  • Open Data Catalogue (CKAN-based)
  • Geospatial Data Catalogue (pycsw)
  • Spatial Data Infrastructure (GeoServer, MapServer, rasdaman, ZOO WPS)
  • Web GIS (OpenLayers, Leaflet)
  • Data Analytics
  • Data as a Service (APIs for citizens, private and public sector)

What is your need?

• Need to publish open data? PublicaMundi is based on CKAN, the leading open data catalogue
• Already publish open data? Install the PublicaMundi extension and get advanced geospatial capabilities
• Need a Spatial Data Infrastructure? PublicaMundi offers full INSPIRE, ISO and OGC compliance
• Already have a Spatial Data Infrastructure? PublicaMundi can repurpose its data and services, multiplying the value of your investment
• Need to provide Web Maps? Beautiful, scalable and automated Web Maps for the Web and mobile
• Want to offer value added services? Powerful JavaScript Data and Mapping APIs for building Web and Mobile apps

Who is it for? (Private Sector)

• Publish your open data
  • Compliant with EC and worldwide data publishing standards
• Offer commercial value added services from open and/or your proprietary data
  • Monetize services based on your expertise and data
• Intra-organizational data sharing and collaboration
  • De facto data sharing between people and systems
• Low-cost and interoperable Geospatial infrastructure
  • Geospatial Database (vector and raster), full Web GIS, catalogue server, Desktop GIS compatible, raster data analytics

Data Publishing

• Easily publish any kind of geospatial data
• No need to transform or change the CRS
• Provide as little or as much metadata you want
• Data automatically available in maps and services
• On demand transform and download for users
• Manage the lifecycle of your data
• Harvest existing GIS, SDIs or catalogues

Metadata

• Integrated metadata editor and validator
• Full support for geospatial metadata standards (and non-geospatial)
• Easy programmatic support for new standards
• On demand transformation in other standards

Automation

• Data ingested in PostGIS (vector) or rasdaman (raster)
• Available in OGC services (WFS, WMS, …)
• Available in JavaScript Data and Mapping APIs
• Available in interactive Maps
• Available on demand (subset, format, CRS)

Web Maps

• Beautiful, fast, and versatile interactive web maps
• Layers added automatically; just upload a data set
• Simple administrative panel
• Demand-aware and automatically scalable
• Multiple ready to use tools
• Embeddable interactive maps
• OpenLayers or Leaflet (you choose)
• Analytics on how your data are used

Analytics

• Go beyond visitor statistics
• Learn how your data and services are explored and used
• Statistics collected across all service endpoints and components
• Integrated Google Analytics
• Insights automatically applied for adapting the system to traffic

Multilinguality

• Your data and services with no borders
• Just select languages to be supported
• Simple and collaborative translation tools
• Translate at your own pace
• Catalogue automatically available in 80+ languages
• Assisted translation for Metadata and Vector data
• Robust provenance and curation for translations

Deployment

• Pick what suits you and grow later
• Ansible scripts for automatic installation and initialization
• Native deployment on single or multiple servers
• Deploy on Virtual Machines
• Deploy on your own or commercial cloud
• Re-purpose existing software
• Low administrative effort

And more

• Interlink your data; increase value and quality
• Start small and grow only if you want to
• No experts needed; invest in training only if you want to
• Open source; no licenses and fees

What is PublicaMundi?

• Cloud-based
• Versatile and multi-purpose (SDI, catalogue, fits in every picture)
• Multi-purpose and future-proof
• Simple to use
• Automated
• SDI, catalogue, fits in every picture
• Scalable and cost-effective
• Open and closed data, Open Source, Open Standards, Open Services

Contact us

http://publicamundi.eu