Trevor Taylor

Bio: Trevor Taylor, currently responsible for Services for Asia and the Americas, has over twenty-five years of experience in the international Earth Observation community. With a background in Geography (Carleton University, Canada), Mr. Taylor has worked with the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Dipix Technologies, Interra (now InterMap) Technologies and, PCI Geomatics, where his last position was Director, Business Development with a focus on Central and South America.

Mr. Taylor has significant global experience in a wide variety of technical, client services, project, business and strategic planning activities. Mr. Taylor was PCI Geomatics’ business contact to OGC for the past decade, representing PCI and OGC interests at the technical, principal, principal plus and strategic levels, particularly in South America, India, China and Western Europe.

Open Data, Open Standards, and Open and Proprietary Technology; Critical Components for the Evolution of Geospatial Information Management

Geospatial data and information is getting “bigger”, more ubiquitous, and more accurate and now includes many non-traditional sources (e.g. Mobile Devices) and data collectors (e.g. Volunteered Geographic Information). With the ongoing movement to support Open Data policies, the ability of organizations to easily share data is now more important than ever and requires new thinking both from ICT and policy perspectives.

This talk will clarify the relationship between Open Data, Open Standards and Open and Proprietary technology, with a focus on Open Standards as a key enabler to interoperability of data and information. This will include the presentation of the adopted United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management(UN-GGIM) standards document, which provides a spatial data infrastructure maturity/continuum model to help organisation identify existing capacity, plan for future capacity and provide guidance on implementation.

open data, standards, proprietary technology, UN Global Geospatial Information Management, spatial data infrastructure