REGIS: a “geoservice-oriented”infrastructure for many users and needs

Date : 15 Ottobre 2009 Where: ESRI European User Conference - Vilnius

Authors: Marco PanebiancoPaolo MilaniWalter Fontana

REGIS: a “geoservice-oriented”infrastructure for many users and needs

REGIS: a “geoservice-oriented”infrastructure for many users and needs

SummarySummary

Introduction

The Lombardy regional SDI

REGIS: overview of services

REGIS evolution

Future trends

Where is Region Lombardy?Where is Region Lombardy?

Lombardy in numbers…

12 Provinces

1546 Municipalities

30 Mountain Communities

About 9 millions inhabitants

About 21% of the whole

Italian GNP

Lots of Industry, Agriculture

and Service activities

Lombardy Regional SDI: from theory…Lombardy Regional SDI: from theory…

• Need to improve the acquisition, management, storage, access and use of GI through the co-operation and collaboration among Public and Private subjects in Lombardy

Public Administrations and Privates

Policies & Standards

Technologies

Lombardy Regional SDI

Metadata

GeoPortal

GeoUsers

GeographicData & Services

…to practice…to practice

Citizens

Other Public Administrations (Municipalities, Provinces,…)

Private Companies & Professionals

Health careSafety & Security

Land and UrbanPlanning

EnvironmentalPrevention & Protection

Consumer oriented servicesCivil Protection

Tax collection &control

Funding Planning

GeoMarketing

Sharing government data among many users,

facing with many needs!

HW-SW Infrastructure

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SDI actual scenarioSDI actual scenario

Private companies & professionals

Citizens Public administrations Third party Applications & Services

IIT

REGISRegional Enterprise platform for Geographic Information Services

Vertical Applications and Services Common Applications and Services

+ 80 Application

s & Services

150 Map Services

GeoDataRepository

+ 600 Geographic

Layers

+ 30000Accesses to

common applications

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Introduction: What’s REGIS?Introduction: What’s REGIS?

• REGIS is :

An High Availability

Geographic Platform

Developed by Lombardia Informatica

For Region Lombardy

To provide Geographic Applications and Services.

To Support more and more Region Lombardy Processes and Policies.

Why the need for such a platform?Why the need for such a platform?

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20052005

2009

Increasing Expectations

Increasing number of ApplicationsIncreasing number of Applications

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2005 - 37 Web Applications

2006 - 50 Web Applications

Today: More Than 80 Applications and Services

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WMS

Plurality of ServicesPlurality of Services

ISO 19115 and ISO 19139

Increasing offer of Geo-data inside Geographic DBIncreasing offer of Geo-data inside Geographic DB

• 2005 - 120 GB

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• 2009 - 400 GB- 108 Schema

Which is the answer to such a great challenge?Which is the answer to such a great challenge?

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• Evolve solutions from applications to services• Definition of common

services;• Use services as reusable

components;• Unique point of access: the

Lombardy GeoPortal

• The same SW platform for all developments;

• Scalable HW platform;

From Application-Based to GeoServiceFrom Application-Based to GeoService

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S.O.A.

From an Application-based to a GeoService-Oriented infrastructure, fully integrated with the overall Regional

Information System.

Definition of Common ServicesDefinition of Common Services

• Parametric geographic Viewer and Multistandard (IMS and WMS)

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• Download Service based on ESRI DDEG e o c o d i n g a n d

N o r m a l i z a t i o n W S G e o P r o x i m i t y W S

A u t h e n t i c a t i o n W S ( … )

How to use services as reusable componentsHow to use services as reusable components

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Geocoding and Normalization WS

GeoProximity WS

Unique point of access: the Lombardy GeoPortalUnique point of access: the Lombardy GeoPortal

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http://www.cartografia.regione.lombardia.it

The same platform to develop Web ApplicationsThe same platform to develop Web Applications

REGIS

REST & SOAP

APIJavaScript

APIFlex

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Which Software?Which Software?

Type SoftwareWeb GIS ArcIMS 4.01-9.1-9.2

Web GIS ArcGISServer 9.2-9.3.1

Download Service ArcIMS DDE 9.1

Manage GIS Database ArcSDE 9.2

Database Oracle 10g

A scalable HW InfrastructureA scalable HW Infrastructure

• 2005:

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• 2009…

1 ArcIMS1 SDE

In summaryIn summary

• Service Architecture;

• Common platform to develope WebApplications;

• Hardware and Software scalable;

• They are very important

BUT….

But remember…But remember…

But remember…But remember…

The power is nothingwithoutcontrol

Then?

From SOA to UOAFrom SOA to UOA

From SOA to UOAFrom SOA to UOA

User Oriented Applications• Design tools and services for end users

• Share geodata and maps among GIS and non-GIS users

• Encourage user Community based on common needs

Future trends in the UOA perspectiveFuture trends in the UOA perspective

• More Web 2.0 Applications:• Fast and Easy to use• User driven

• New Services:• 3D applications• Location Intelligence• Mobile GIS• User Generated Content

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FINEFINE

Thank you for

your attention

marco.panebianco@lispa.itpaolo.milani@lispa.it

walter.fontana@lispa.it