GeoNode Intro & Demo

Cristiano Giovando - Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, World Bank
Paolo Corti - Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University

Dynamic Mapping of Secondary Cities Symposium

Center of Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, June 14-15, 2016
Innovation Lab A Global Perspective
Developing Risk Information to Inform Decisions
Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI)
What is GeoNode?
History
Initially founded by GFDRR and World Bank, and developed by Open Plans

11/2010: GeoNode 1.0

02/2012: GeoNode 1.1
10/2012: GeoNode 1.2
04/2014: GeoNode 2.0
11/2015: GeoNode 2.4
Central America
Probabilistic Risk
Assessment
(CAPRA)
Similar frameworks
ArcGIS Server / Online
CartoDB
Mapbox
GeoNetwork
Geomajas
GeoMoose
MapBender
Who is using it?
World Bank
United Nations
European Commission
U.S. Department of State
Several universities (including CGA at Harvard for
WorldMap!)
Many local government offices and agencies
Who is it for?
Easily Share Geodata
Create and Style Maps
Create and Edit Geodata
Manage and Publish Metadata
Access Control by Users and Groups
Catalog Service for the Web (CSW) endpoint
WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS, WPS, and more
Social Features
Easily Customizable
Community
100+ contributors
300+ open tickets, 1000+ closed
1000+ pull requests
Almost 400 mailing list subscribers
Yearly GeoNode code sprints
2015 November in New Orleans (US) at Boundless and Turin (IT) at
ITHACA
2015 February in Venice (IT) at ISMAR
2014 April in Rome (IT) at UN WFP
2012 February in Cambridge (US) at CGA in Harvard University!
2011 May in Washington (US) at World Bank
Roadmap
Improvement by other GeoNode developers:

2.5+ GeoNode API improvements

2.5+ Support for additional web map engines (QGIS Server,
MapServer, Mapnik)
Roadmap: from WorldMap to GeoNode
Some features will be ported from WorldMap GeoNode to
mainstream GeoNode (version 2.5):

2.5 Classify by attribute styler

2.5 Map Notes
2.5 Map snapshots/revisions
2.5 Create layer capability
2.5 Gazetteer from layers
Roadmap: from WorldMap to GeoNode
Some features will be ported from WorldMap GeoNode to mainstream
GeoNode:

Datatables (table joins, lat/lon csv file upload)

2.5+ Map service registry to support search and discovery across
distributed GeoNode systems and across any system which contains OGC
or Esri services (HHypermap)
2.5+ Feature Search
2.5+ a big data, real time geo visualization system

Make sure to follow the talk about WorldMap by Ben Lewis from CGA later
today!
GeoNode Stack
Python, Django
GeoServer
PostgreSQL/PostGIS
Pycsw or GeoNetwork
GeoExplorer or MapLoom
Optional: GeoGig, Solr or Elastic Search

All open source!

GeoNode Stack: Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and
clean, pragmatic design. Built by experienced developers, it takes care of much of the
hassle of Web development, so you can focus on writing your app without needing to
reinvent the wheel. Its free and open source.
GeoNode Stack: GeoServer
An open source web mapping engine
Implements a number of OGC standards
WMS
WFS/WFS-T
WCS
WMTS (with GeoWebCache)
WPS
Exposes a REST API
GeoNode Stack: PostgreSQL/PostGIS
PostGIS is a spatial database extender for
PostgreSQL object-relational database

SELECT city.name
FROM city, country
WHERE ST_Contains(city.geom, country.
geom)
AND country.name = 'United States';
GeoNode Stack: pycsw
A metadata publishing and discovery engine written in
Python
OGC CSW reference implementation
It is possible to use GeoNetwork as an alternative
GeoNode Stack: GeoExplorer
It is the default mapping client in GeoNode
Based on ExtJS, GeoExt and OpenLayers 2
It enables feature such as data editing, style editor, map query, map print
GeoNode Stack: MapLoom (optional)
Can be used in place of GeoExplorer
Based on OpenLayers 3, Angular and Bootstrap
Enables GeoGig integration for feature versioning
GeoNode Stack: GeoGig (optional)
Tracks change to data
History of features
Revert a feature to its old version
Integrated in GeoNode with the MapLoom client
Already used in many GeoNode instance created for natural
disasters (ex response to Typhoon Yolanda in Philippines)
GeoNode Stack: Search Engine (optional)
It is possible to improve the search features of GeoNode with
a dedicated search engine
Two alternatives, both based on Lucene
Apache Solr (used in WorldMap)
Elasticsearch
GeoNode Stack: underlying libraries
GDAL
OGR
GEOS
PROJ.4
GeoTools
Demo
Create a new layer from a shapefile
Create a map adding the layer and some remote datasets
Style the layer using GeoExplorer
Edit the layer with GeoExplorer and WFS-T
Define permissions on the layer
Update metadata
Load a layer in desktop GIS
Useful links
Web site: http://geonode.org/
GitHub: https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode
Issue tracker: https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/issues
Documentation: http://docs.geonode.org/
Demo site: http://demo.geonode.org/