Alex Wrottesley
Alex leads Idox Geospatial (a division that brings together Emapsite, ThinkWhere, Exegesis and Landhawk). A respected voice in the industry, Alex joined Idox from Landmark and previously spearheaded the Geovation initiative for Ordnance Survey and HM Land Registry, helping hundreds of location data start-ups.
Sessions
OME has been developed by Idox Geospatial for EuroGeographics. We'll share their journey from licenced to open data, using our open-source back end tech stack, the MapCloud and share our approach to styling and publication of data using OGC standards to massively increase data use.
Exploring how Idox uses QGIS and other FOSS tools and technologies to build its Local Plans dataset (and other MapCloud data). We'll present our processes, share how we build robust data assets, show key use cases and demonstrate how we maintain and commercialise this key data at scale.
Over the past 10 years open source geospatial software and platforms have matured beyond recognition, and become almost ubiquitous across markets and disciplines. In this talk, we'll take a commercial perspective on what this means for the industry and explore where the next decade might take us.