2024-06-02T12:00/12:30 (30 min.) @ Ball room, Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel
Open Seminar on National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) for BANGLADESH – Envisioning Smart Bangladesh through NSDI-BD –
Cooperation Agency (JICA) Lead, UN Smart Maps Group, UN Open GIS Initiative Smart Maps for the prosperity in the future 2024-06-02T12:00/12:30 (30 min.) @ Ball room, Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel Open Seminar on National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) for BANGLADESH – Envisioning Smart Bangladesh through NSDI-BD –
of Japan. • 2004: Maintained the Digital Japan Web System • 2014: Directed the launch of GSI Maps • 2017-2019: UN mission GIS support – currently UN Maps • 2020: Established the UN Smart Maps Group • 2024: JICA Senior Advisor for Geospatial Information “All maps should be on the web technology, because the web technology is ubiquitous.” 1
We are on the right track. • NSDI Platform has been established. What is next? • My suggestion: work towards Open Ecosystem that ultimately accelerate prosperity, create jobs, and increase productivity. 3
Information Library for Geospatial – Smart Maps Bazaar project – Source Cooperative collaboration • [Technology] New Technology Labs – Smart Maps Assistant, application of Large Language Models – Smart Maps Portable, Raspberry Pi for technical capacity building • [Practice] Operation Support – UN Street Map support for UNGSC with UN Vector Tile Toolkit. – Vector tile experiment by Geospatial Information Authority JP. 7
hosting of geospatial data at a personal level. 1. InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) for peer-to-peer file sharing. 2. Raspberry Pi ($100 single board PC) → Good for (1) low-bandwidth environments, (2) geospatial ICT capacity development.
in geospatial applications. 12 For example, we recently tested Gemini 1.5 Pro on how it interprets maps: User: Describe the changes before and after as much as detail. Model: Comparing the UNMISS deployment maps for June 2023 and January 2024 reveals minimal changes in the overall deployment of peacekeeping forces. Both maps show a consistent presence of troops from various countries across different sectors in South Sudan. Here’s a breakdown of the few noticeable differences: - Sector Unity (Bentiu): - June 2023: Shows the presence of troops from Mongolia. - January 2024: No longer indicates the presence of Mongolian troops in this sector. ← ? - … Overall: The changes between the two maps are minor and suggest a possible rotation or withdrawal of a small contingent of troops from Mongolia and Cambodia. The core deployment of UNMISS forces remains largely unchanged. experiment by Yuiseki
to provide their cloud-native base map vector tiles. We provided 1m-resolution cloud-native DEM from a GSI DEM product. We prototyped fit-for-purpose applications based on these geospatial infrastructure. 17 1m resolution
“adopt” open geospatial data from governments, and turn them more cloud-native to add more values. from Open Nagasaki by Nagasaki Prefecture from Project PLATEAU by MLIT
NSDI Platform. 2. The key is to share data, technology, and practice where possible, so that the nation create values from NSDI. 3. Library, Labs, and Operation are activity areas of the UN Smart Maps Group. 4. Let’s combine efforts for the prosperity in the future, achieving Sustainable Development Goals. 22