11-21, 14:30–14:55 (Pacific/Auckland), WG308 TE IRINGA
Reflections on the development and delivery of a free public national-scale basemap service, built using open standards, open data and FOSS tech.
Five years after launch, the Toitū Te Whenua - Land Information New Zealand Basemaps service continues to grow and find new ways to make NZ's vast collections of open geospatial data simple for users to explore and build upon. This talk will provide a quick demo of the product, then dive into some of the trickier problems the Basemaps team has solved to keep the service dirt cheap, beautiful, and lightning-fast. You should leave with a clear idea of the potential outcomes and benefits of building something similar for your geography.
Jonathan is a product owner, focused on simplifying national-scale geospatial data. He has managed the LINZ data service and led the development of LINZ Basemaps.