Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing GIS Data Models

2012-06-28 Thread Simon Greener

For everyone's interest.

I have worked on the idea of community models for years.

I have even converted a lot of the ESRI (for they are community models NOT 
ESRI models) in to schemas for deployment on Oracle or PostgreSQL.

In addition I have been working with Sparx Systems to enhance their ESRI GeoDatabase 
Extension so that a geoDatabase can be seen as a view of a corporate data 
model. This work is to be executed for release, hopefully, in the next release of 
Enterprise Architect.

Count me in on any project to make (spatially enabled) data models available on 
the web as an open source,
Creative Commons Licensed project.

regards
Simon
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:33:46 +1000, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) 
bob.basq...@ci.stpaul.mn.us wrote:


Landon,

Sounds interesting.  Please keep me in the loop as you move forward.

bobb



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On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:14 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing GIS Data Models

I recently started work on a GIS for a small sewer district at my day job. I'm 
currently using diagrams I created in Inkscape
(http://inkscape.org/) to illustrate the following elements of my GIS data 
model:

1) Simple Feature Attributes
2) Individual Feature Level Metadata

When the data model documentation process is complete I hope to also have 
diagrams for the additional elements of my GIS data model:

1) Topology Data
2) Feature Relationships
3) Feature Editing History

The diagrams will be combined with a short written guide to document the data 
model. I plan on sharing all of the data model, including its design, the SVG 
and PDF files of the diagrams, and the written guide.
I'd like to release all of that under a Creative Commons License. If I can find 
time, I'll tweak the diagrams to create templates that could be easily applied 
to other data models.

Is there any interest among other OSGeo members in these data model documents 
and templates? If there is, I'd love to gather feedback from interested 
parties. If there was enough interest, I'd like to talk about hosting an open 
data model page similar to the one here:

http://support.esri.com/en/downloads/datamodel

I'd could commit to maintaining the data for the sewer data model, and hope to 
add data models for the Public Land Survey System and Flood Control 
Infrastructure before the end of the year. If there isn't interest in doing 
that as part of OSGeo, I'll put up a set of GIS data model pages here:

http://www.ccvgpg.org/

Ultimately my goal is to encourage better documentation and sharing of GIS data 
model design. Inkscape is a really wonderful vector graphics program that makes 
it possible to do this in a beautiful way using common templates.

If there is any interest, I'll share what I've got so far, and will move the 
conversation to the OSGeo standards mailing list.

Thanks.

Landon
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing GIS Data Models

2012-06-21 Thread Rafal Wawer
HI Landon,
Sounds very interesting, especially Public Land Survey model.
Did you think about using an UML editor for the job instead Inkscape?

INSPIRE Directive spatial data models 
http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/datamodels
(I had the pleasure to participate in the development of the models for
biodiversity themes)

are written in UML using a commercial tool, but there are several free tools
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unified_Modeling_Language_tools

The benefits of this UML editor approach is, that using certain tools you can
translate the data model directly into the database structure or even to code.

Best regards:
RAf




On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:14:21 -0700, Landon Blake wrote
 I recently started work on a GIS for a small sewer district at my day
 job. I'm currently using diagrams I created in Inkscape
 (http://inkscape.org/) to illustrate the following elements of my GIS
 data model:
 
 1) Simple Feature Attributes
 2) Individual Feature Level Metadata
 
 When the data model documentation process is complete I hope to also
 have diagrams for the additional elements of my GIS data model:
 
 1) Topology Data
 2) Feature Relationships
 3) Feature Editing History
 
 The diagrams will be combined with a short written guide to document
 the data model. I plan on sharing all of the data model, including 
 its design, the SVG and PDF files of the diagrams, and the written guide.
 I'd like to release all of that under a Creative Commons License. If 
 I can find time, I'll tweak the diagrams to create templates that could
 be easily applied to other data models.
 
 Is there any interest among other OSGeo members in these data model
 documents and templates? If there is, I'd love to gather feedback 
 from interested parties. If there was enough interest, I'd like to talk
 about hosting an open data model page similar to the one here:
 
 http://support.esri.com/en/downloads/datamodel
 
 I'd could commit to maintaining the data for the sewer data model, 
 and hope to add data models for the Public Land Survey System and Flood
 Control Infrastructure before the end of the year. If there isn't
 interest in doing that as part of OSGeo, I'll put up a set of GIS 
 data model pages here:
 
 http://www.ccvgpg.org/
 
 Ultimately my goal is to encourage better documentation and sharing 
 of GIS data model design. Inkscape is a really wonderful vector graphics
 program that makes it possible to do this in a beautiful way using
 common templates.
 
 If there is any interest, I'll share what I've got so far, and will
 move the conversation to the OSGeo standards mailing list.
 
 Thanks.
 
 Landon
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing GIS Data Models

2012-06-21 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
Landon,

Sounds interesting.  Please keep me in the loop as you move forward.

bobb



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From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] 
On Behalf Of Landon Blake
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:14 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing GIS Data Models

I recently started work on a GIS for a small sewer district at my day job. I'm 
currently using diagrams I created in Inkscape
(http://inkscape.org/) to illustrate the following elements of my GIS data 
model:

1) Simple Feature Attributes
2) Individual Feature Level Metadata

When the data model documentation process is complete I hope to also have 
diagrams for the additional elements of my GIS data model:

1) Topology Data
2) Feature Relationships
3) Feature Editing History

The diagrams will be combined with a short written guide to document the data 
model. I plan on sharing all of the data model, including its design, the SVG 
and PDF files of the diagrams, and the written guide.
I'd like to release all of that under a Creative Commons License. If I can find 
time, I'll tweak the diagrams to create templates that could be easily applied 
to other data models.

Is there any interest among other OSGeo members in these data model documents 
and templates? If there is, I'd love to gather feedback from interested 
parties. If there was enough interest, I'd like to talk about hosting an open 
data model page similar to the one here:

http://support.esri.com/en/downloads/datamodel

I'd could commit to maintaining the data for the sewer data model, and hope to 
add data models for the Public Land Survey System and Flood Control 
Infrastructure before the end of the year. If there isn't interest in doing 
that as part of OSGeo, I'll put up a set of GIS data model pages here:

http://www.ccvgpg.org/

Ultimately my goal is to encourage better documentation and sharing of GIS data 
model design. Inkscape is a really wonderful vector graphics program that makes 
it possible to do this in a beautiful way using common templates.

If there is any interest, I'll share what I've got so far, and will move the 
conversation to the OSGeo standards mailing list.

Thanks.

Landon
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Sharing GIS Data Models

2012-06-20 Thread Landon Blake
I recently started work on a GIS for a small sewer district at my day
job. I'm currently using diagrams I created in Inkscape
(http://inkscape.org/) to illustrate the following elements of my GIS
data model:

1) Simple Feature Attributes
2) Individual Feature Level Metadata

When the data model documentation process is complete I hope to also
have diagrams for the additional elements of my GIS data model:

1) Topology Data
2) Feature Relationships
3) Feature Editing History

The diagrams will be combined with a short written guide to document
the data model. I plan on sharing all of the data model, including its
design, the SVG and PDF files of the diagrams, and the written guide.
I'd like to release all of that under a Creative Commons License. If I
can find time, I'll tweak the diagrams to create templates that could
be easily applied to other data models.

Is there any interest among other OSGeo members in these data model
documents and templates? If there is, I'd love to gather feedback from
interested parties. If there was enough interest, I'd like to talk
about hosting an open data model page similar to the one here:

http://support.esri.com/en/downloads/datamodel

I'd could commit to maintaining the data for the sewer data model, and
hope to add data models for the Public Land Survey System and Flood
Control Infrastructure before the end of the year. If there isn't
interest in doing that as part of OSGeo, I'll put up a set of GIS data
model pages here:

http://www.ccvgpg.org/

Ultimately my goal is to encourage better documentation and sharing of
GIS data model design. Inkscape is a really wonderful vector graphics
program that makes it possible to do this in a beautiful way using
common templates.

If there is any interest, I'll share what I've got so far, and will
move the conversation to the OSGeo standards mailing list.

Thanks.

Landon
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