African Coastal Marine Atlas Experience with Smart Atlas

African Coastal & Marine Atlas Experience with Smart Atlas Yassine Lassoued y. lassoued@ucc. ie

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ODINAFRICA Ocean Data and Information Network for Africa – 1989: Making coastal data and information available to a wide range of users 16 June 2013 ICAN Workshop 6, Victoria, Canada 3

ACMA – Data and Know How • Goals • Process – Improve access to data – Increase capacity to use data 16 June 2013 • National workshops to identify data and products • Input from regional programmes • Composition of editorial teams • Several trainings • Creating and processing data • A series of workshops to build the atlas ICAN Workshop 6, Victoria, Canada 4

ICAN Supports ODINAFRICA is member of ICAN Access to the network of expertise Training Handbooks and guidelines Technology 16 June 2013 ICAN Workshop 6, Victoria, Canada 5

The Marine Irish Digital Atlas 16 June 2013 ICAN Workshop 6, Victoria, Canada 6

Collaboration under ICAN • CMRC licensed the “MIDA engine” to the ODINAFRICA partners – Free licence – Required training on how to deploy and populate the atlas was provided by CMRC as part of IODE workshops – IODE and ODINAFRICA successfully deployed ACMA using the MIDA engine 16 June 2013 ICAN Workshop 6, Victoria, Canada 7

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Smart Atlas • Four-month project (spring 2012) • Funded by IODE, under ODINAFRICA • Implemented by CMRC 16 June 2013 ICAN Workshop 6, Victoria, Canada 9

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From MIDA to Smart Atlas AJAX Geo. Ext & Ext. JS Client (GUI) PHP [Mapscript] PHP Server Side Metadata 16 June 2013 [Mapscript] Postgre. SQL CSW [Geo. Network] ICAN Workshop 6, Victoria, Canada 11

Features • Full screen map • Integration with catalogue services (OGC CSW), e. g. , Geo. Network • A variety of base layers • Layer categories • Reusable and customisable • Available for download for free: – http: //smartatlas. ucc. ie/downloads 16 June 2013 ICAN Workshop 6, Victoria, Canada 12

Iterative Development Process Development NO User Testing and Feedback Satisfied? YES Done Several workshops organised by IODE 16 June 2013 ICAN Workshop 6, Victoria, Canada 13

Conclusion • Use latest stable technologies • Commercial solutions are excellent, reliable, robust… but may be costly… • Several Open Source solutions and APIs are available • Comply with standards • Engage with users as early as possible in the development life cycle 16 June 2013 ICAN Workshop 6, Victoria, Canada 14

Thanks Yassine Lassoued y. lassoued@ucc. ie