MapStore at work, supporting customers in Belgium

In this slides, we will be featuring an interesting use case for MapStore. Our Belgian Partner NV.GeoSolutions will describe their experience with GeoServer and MapStore since they created a downstream product based on MapStore which is used by a few public organizations in Belgium, including DMOW, Flanders Mobility Department.

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1. 0 Yanko Godaert Geo-data Engineer & MapStore expert
2. 1 Part of biggest Location BeNeLux group HQ: Edegem Offices in Leuven, Namur, Gent 40M € o 275 Professionals o GIS systems o Mobile WorkForce o Scheduling o Internet of Things & Connectivity o The New Workplace o GEO Strategies Location Intelligence - BE Location Intelligence
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4. 3 GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER Technology independent Location Intelligence Technology brings location to life Geo integrates location into the technology of the client to • Share info • Work together • Smart decisions
5. 4 DATA CLUSTER Location Intelligence Modelling & managing Digital Twin Managing data flows – Engineering From Data to Information - Insights
6. 5 BUSINESS CLUSTER Location Intelligence Business and functional analysis Enterprise and Solution Architecture Project and program management
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8. 7 MapStore@DMOW
9. 8 Department of Mobility and Public Works (DMOW) • Governmental institution • Belgium: 6 governments on 3 levels • > Federal • > Language communities • Flemish (Dutch) • French • German • > Regions • Flanders (Flemish) = ‘Vlaanderen’ • 6,8 million inhabitants • ± 500 inh/km² • Wallonia • Brussels-Capital Department of Mobility and Public Works
10. 9 Department of Mobility and Public Works (DMOW) • Make Flanders move along • 85 000 km roads • 1 000 km waterways • 4 ports >> big challenges in safe, smart and sustainable mobility policy making with adequate infrastructure • Highly-location related domain >> benefit from geo-data enabled decision-making • MapStore • GeoServer • GeoNetwork Department of Mobility and Public Works
11. 10 MapStore@DMOW • 4 y setup open-source web-GIS-infra • GIS-viewer: MapStore downstream project • Webservices: GeoServer • Metadata portal: GeoNetwork • Databases: PostgreSQL • Maps, dashboards & geostories for different use cases • Internal • Public • Maps & geostories • Embedded • Also editing capabilities • Support contract GeoSolutions Group: feature requests, priority bug fixes & configuration support for MapStore, GeoServer, GeoNetwork • Role Geo Solutions (Belgium) • Not involved with initial setup (other projects) • Manage & support MapStore project • E&E data processing Department of Mobility and Public Works
12. 11 DMOW GIS Viewer
13. 12 Case: Shared soft mobility DMOW GIS Viewer • Transport region Antwerp: • Current situation of shared soft mobility (bikes & scooters) ? • Where can we improve? Which areas are underserved? • Processing • harvest all available open GBFS data • aggregate on different levels of administrative boundaries • enrich with number of inhabitants • entire Flanders region • Publish on GeoServer, with multiple styles • Create public MapStore map >> from open data to open data
14. 13 Demo: Shared soft mobility DMOW GIS Viewer
15. 14 Case: Intelligent Traffic Lights DMOW GIS Viewer • Equip existing traffic lights with new smart technology • React smoothly and adaptively to road users at an intersection • Turning green faster or longer based on the actual traffic ahead • Two-way communication (e.g. emergency services) • Current situation • Active: 167 • Under construction: 171 • Scheduled: 52 • MapStore • Manage data & status >> WFS transaction editing capability • Communication to citizens • Simplified public map view • Embedded on website
16. 15 Demo: Intelligent Traffic Lights DMOW GIS Viewer
17. 16 Sidenote: Dutch translations DMOW GIS Viewer • MapStore UI configured in Dutch • On every MapStore update DMOW • Checks & updates Dutch translations • Push to source code
18. 17 Sidenote: Authentication DMOW GIS Viewer • Default internal authentication service • Username & password • Geostore database • User management >> MapStore admin • External authentication service • OpenID Connect • Default providers • Google • Keycloak • Custom ACM/IDM provider • https://authenticatie.vlaanderen.be • Login VO/Itsme • User management not in MapStore but external in ACM/IDM >> generic (experimental) OpenID Connect provider
19. 19 Case: PhotoViewer extension DMOW GIS Viewer • Custom MapStore extension >> developed from extension framework • Functionalities • View a picture on a map, linked to attributes in a dataset • Implement routes • Navigation • Animation • Generic >> lot of use cases • Custom street view • Graphs of FCD travel times • Historical aerial photographs >> demo POC • Activation in application context
20. 20 Demo: PhotoViewer extension DMOW GIS Viewer
21. 21 Case: Geostory bicycle infrastructure DMOW GIS Viewer • Transport region Antwerp • Geostory to integrate a lot of complex location data in different maps into one thematic overview with extra contextual information in a Geostory • Integrated in reports >> publicly shared with citizen
22. 22 THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION. For more information, visit www.geosolutions.be.