What is PublicaMundi?

A Geospatial Data Infrastructure, handling the entire lifecycle of geospatial data sharing, discovery, use, and reuse

  • Simple to use for everyone
  • Automates data handling and service provision
  • Big Data-ready
  • Cloud-based, scalable, and cost effective (PaaS/SaaS)
  • Versatile, multi-purpose, and future proof
  • Open in its heart (open source, open standards, open services)

 

 What is your need?

  • Need to publish open data? PublicaMundi is based on CKAN, the leading open data catalogue
  • Already publish open data? Install the PublicaMundi extension and get advanced geospatial capabilities
  • Need a Spatial Data Infrastructure? PublicaMundi offers full INSPIRE, ISO and OGC compliance
  • Already have a Spatial Data Infrastructure? PublicaMundi can repurpose its data and services, multiplying the value of your investment
  • Need to provide Web Maps? Beautiful, scalable and automated Web Maps for the Web and mobile
  • Want to offer value added services? Powerful JavaScript  Data and Mapping APIs for building Web and Mobile apps

 

For the Public Sector

PublicaMundi provides de facto compliance with INSPIRE, OGC, and Open Data policies. It is extremely versatile and can handle multiple roles for your organization. You can always start small and grow later according to your needs. Roles supported (all available out of the box)

  • Open Data Catalogue (CKAN-based)
  • Geospatial Data Catalogue (pycsw & CKAN)
  • Spatial Data Infrastructure (GeoServer, ZOO-Project, PostGIS, rasdaman)
  • Web GIS (OpenLayers, Leaflet)
  • Data Analytics
  • Data as a Service (APIs for citizens, private and public sector)

 

 For the Private Sector

PublicaMundi enables you to harness powerful tools developed for open data publishing and apply them for your own needs.

  • Publish your open data; compliant with EC and worldwide data publishing standards
  • Offer commercial value added services from open and/or your proprietary data; Monetize services based on your expertise and data
  • Intra-organizational data sharing and collaboration; De facto data sharing between people and systems
  • Low-cost and interoperable Geospatial infrastructure; Geospatial Database (vector and raster), full Web GIS, catalogue server, Desktop GIS compatible, raster data analytics

 

Data Publishing

Easily publish any kind of geospatial data

  • No need to transform or change the CRS
  • Provide as little or as much metadata you want
  • Data automatically available in maps and services
  • On demand transform and download for users
  • Manage the life-cycle of your data
  • Harvest existing GIS, SDIs or catalogues

Metadata

Robust and future-proof metadata management

  • Integrated metadata editor and validator
  • Full support for geospatial metadata standards (and non-geospatial)
  • Easy programmatic support for new standards
  • On demand transformation in other standards

Automation

Your data ingested in PostGIS (vector) or rasdaman (raster) and automatically available

  • OGC services (WFS, WMS, …)
  • JavaScript Data and Mapping APIs
  • Interactive Maps
  • On demand (subset, format, CRS)

Web Maps

Beautiful, fast, and versatile interactive web maps

  • Layers added automatically; just upload a data set
  • Simple administrative panel
  • Demand-aware and automatically scalable
  • Multiple ready to use tools
  • Embeddable interactive maps
  • OpenLayers or Leaflet (you choose)

Open APIs

Value added services from your open data

  • Simple yet powerful open JavaScript APIs
  • Lower the entry barrier for open geospatial data reuse
  • Query data with the Data API 
  • Visualize data with the Mapping API
  • Expose complex WPS analysis workloads
  • Suitable for web and mobile apps

Analytics

Go beyond visitor statistics

  • Learn how your data and services are explored and used
  • Statistics collected across all service endpoints and components
  • Integrated Google Analytics
  • Insights automatically applied for adapting the system to traffic

Multi-linguality

Your data and services with no borders

  • Just select languages to be supported
  • Simple and collaborative translation tools
  • Translate at your own pace
  • Catalogue automatically available in 80+ languages
  • Assisted translation for Metadata and Vector data
  • Robust provenance and curation for translations

Deployment

Pick what suits you and grow later

  • Ansible scripts for automatic installation and initialization
  • Native deployment on single or multiple servers
  • Deploy on Virtual Machines
  • Deploy on your own or commercial cloud
  • Re-purpose existing software
  • Low administrative effort

 

And more

  • Interlink your data; increase value and quality
  • Start small and grow only if you want to
  • No experts needed; invest in training only if you want to
  • Open source; no licenses and fees