Worldwide Terrain and Cloud Infrastructure: an update on Stamen's Knight Grant

1. Worldwide Terrain and Cloud Infrastructure: an update on Stamen’s Knight Grant Seth Fitzsimmons
 Stamen Design
2. [intro]
3. what is the Knight Foundation?
4. Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. We believe that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. “ ” - John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
5. what is Stamen?
7. grant goals
8. cloud-based infrastructure
9. worldwide terrain
10. accessible and open process
11. (hi)
12. [background]
13. previously…
14. dotspotting.org
15. toner
16. watercolor
17. terrain
18. no pressure.
19. meanwhile…
20. 6/2011: launch
21. 3/2012: watercolor
22. 12/2013: 240m tiles
23. 12/2014: 960m tiles
24. Mapbox
25. _aaS
26. modernization
27. Running Your Own Rendering Infrastructure Seth Fitzsimmons Stamen Design http://flic.kr/p/8sJotc
28. updated data
30. style tweaks
32. Cascadenik → CartoCSS
33. TileStache → tessera
34. ModestMaps → Leaflet
35. self-hosted → AWS
36. more accessible (?)
37. [terrain]
38. (continental) US only
39. ∞ terrain maps
40. duplication (unless necessary)
41. “best available open data”
42. raw data
43. DEM
44. hillshades
45. contours
46. aspect?
47. slope?
48. … BoF @ 7:30
49. open (+ documented) process (work-in-progress: please help!)
50. (watching / collaborating with OpenAerialMap) BoF @ 8:30
51. expandable
52. institutional sources (NASA, USGS, …)
53. individual sources (OpenDroneMap)
54. [architecture]
55. cheap, simple, novel
56. (AWS)
57. storage via HTTP (S3)
58. overviews as distinct layers
59. rendered via Mapnik / GDAL
60. horizontal processing w/ GDAL (SQS / SWF)
61. VRTs (virtual raster tables)
62. VSICurl /vsicurl/http://…
63. PostgreSQL / PostGIS
64. PostgreSQL / PostGIS
65. out-db + S3 =
66. (caching gotchas)
67. 100⨉100 px tiles =
68. Mapnik + GDAL + VRTs + FUSE
69. Filesystem in User Space
72. [access]
73. empowering journalists
74. CartoDB
77. help tell stories
78. support pipeline reuse
80. let’s figure this thing out! seth@stamen.com openterrain.tumblr.com