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Background

Who we are and what are our challenges

Sharing authoritative and reliable geospatial information has been an important issue for decades or nearly a century inside and outside the United Nations. United Nations Geospatial has been collaborating with country-led projects like International Map of the World (IMW) project and Global Mapping (GM) project in spite of technological challenges regarding possible political concerns involved.

Vector Tile (VT) technology is a key technology for Smart Maps that enables full data ownership and control by data providers with reasonable cost-sharing arrangements, which is a technological solution reducing possible political concerns. United Nations Vector Tile Toolkit (UNVT) was established in 2018 as a successor of the GM project with an unchanging ideal of sharing authoritative and reliable geospatial information for Sustainable Development, and with a new important objective to meet the requirements of UN operations.

DWG7 is a UN Open GIS Initiative Domain Working Group built on top of the UNVT project and is going beyond. Participated by partners from not only Member State governments and International Organizations but also the private sector and academia, Domain Working Group (DWG) 7 is building a global community of engineers and operators who are keeping web maps open and diverse. DWG7 is contributing to informed decision making by providing fast and smart maps based on modern web technologies.

UN Open GIS Strategy Manifesto

This part is an excerpt from the UN Open GIS Initiative document.

The UN Open GIS Initiative is to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirement of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners (Member States, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGO's, and the private sector).

The strategic approach shall be developed with best and shared principles, standards, and ownership, in a prioritized manner that addresses capability gaps and needs without duplicating the efforts of other Member States or entities. The UN Open GIS Initiative strategy shall collaboratively and cooperatively develop, validate, assess, migrate, and implement sound technical capabilities with all the appropriate documentation and training that in the end provides a united effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing Open Source GIS around the world.

UN Open GIS Membership

This part is an excerpt from the UN Open GIS Initiative ToR (updated 29 June 2018).

Contributor
any Member State or organization who agrees with the strategy manifesto of the UN Open GIS Initiative and actively contributes to the UN Open GIS Initiative in terms of financial, materials, solutions, technologies, and/or human resources. The contributor membership shall be decided by the Strategic Board.
Observer
any Member State or organization who agrees with the strategy manifesto of the UN Open GIS Initiative and participates in the UN Open GIS Initiative actively. The observer membership shall be granted by the Strategic Board.

DWG7 Structure

Mission

Build a global community of engineers and operators who are keeping web maps open and diverse.

DWG Leads

Objective owners

Reporting

DWG7 shall be reporting to the Co-Chairs and the Strategic Board of the UN Open GIS Initiative. In practice, DWG7 is reporting to the UN Open GIS Initiative through monthly meetings.

How we operate

We consider DWG7 as a community and take a federated approach; participants bring their high-level objectives with clearly defined owners and success criteria to get all the DWG members on the same page. Participants will get opportunities to share their progress within DWG and also to the UN Open GIS Initiative through its monthly meetings.

Community promise

  1. We treat people as equals. Everyone is welcome.
  2. We prefer open collaboration.
  3. Contributions are esteemed by their merit.
  4. We respect data producers.
  5. We move by empathy and trust, not by requests.
  6. We criticize ideas, not people.
  7. We believe in fail forward to learn and improve.

Community value statement

We support participants:

  1. to design, produce, style, host, and optimize vector tiles.
  2. to cope with resource-limited environments.
  3. to learn about use cases.
  4. to have fun.
  5. to introduce new ideas.
  6. to help each other.
  7. to handle images, raster data (terrain tiles), point clouds, and 3D city models, too.

Objectives

Objective 1: UN operation

short description
Operationalize vector tiles in the UN
overview
We introduce an effective and efficient geospatial data dissemination mechanism for the UN field missions and the UN Secretariat. It will be cost-saving for the Organization.
key initiatives
key performance indicators
  1. Regular update of the vector tiles
    current
    daily for mission areas, twice a week for other areas
    target
    keep regular updates
owner
Taro
participants

Objective 2: GSI operation

short description
Operationalize GSI vector tiles in distributed hosting environments
overview
We scale out map applications by promoting vector tile hosting by different parties including private enterprises.
key initiatives
key performance indicators
  1. Number of tiles monthly sent from GSI server [tiles/month]
    current
    6 billion tiles/month
    target
    0% increase from 6 billion tiles/month in 2023-10
  2. Number of operators hosting GSI topographic vector tiles
    target
    +3 in 2023-10
owner
Hidenori
participants

Objective 6: Sensor data integration

short description
Integrate sensor data
overview
TBD
key initiatives
TBD
key performance indicators
TBD
owner
Hidenori
participants
TBD

Objective n: TODO TEMPLATE

short description
overview
key initiatives
key performance indicators
owner
participants

References

ChangeLog

Project Document

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