tiger/line data and open data in the cloud

TIGER/Line Data in the CloudMaking Open Data Useful

125 gigabytes ofRoads, counties, school districts, census

blocks, congressional districts

12+ hours to download, unzip, uploadinto Amazon’s Cloud

• Boot up a mapping server in a minute• Connect the TIGER data in two minutes

14,000+ Districts + TIGER/line

Federal Education Budget Program

Part of a complete open-source mappingstack

Without restrictive licenses, distributingand reusing map information is acompletely different experience.

Cloud computing means scalability, thematurity of open-source mappingsoftware means grassroots involvement

Mapnik,TileCache,MapServer,OpenGeo,PostGIS

qGIS, OpenLayers,Google Earth,Consumer GPS

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pasma/

Infrastructure

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wili/

OpenStreetMap is creating a worldwideroad map

141,000 new miles of African roads

150gb “Planet.osm”,125gb TIGER/lineVia FTP & DVDs

USGS digital elevation data for floodingconcerns

Population data, land cover data forhealth and famine crises

Mobile East, Mississippi