Geospatial metadata sharing
Or: How do I cite a place?
Stuart Grieve (@GIStuart)
Univeristy College London
Problem
Topographic data is key to geospatial science
The data is (nearly!) all open
But people work on spatial subsets of the data
Current 'solution'
People cite the source dataset
And never share/publish the subset they use
Barrier to reproducibility
Emailing data
Better Solution
Create some tools to compile relevant metadata into a file:
Technologies
Build upon OGC tools including RasterIO, Fiona, Shapely, GDAL, so could work in most languages.
Python
Javascript?
Metadata
Vision
Given a topographic dataset, press a button and get shareable metadata
Use this data to reconstruct the original topographic dataset from its source
Geospatial metadata sharing
Or: How do I cite a place?
Stuart Grieve (@GIStuart)
Univeristy College London