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November 7^th, 2013
13h - 14h | UTC

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Opengeoscience: meeting the UK’s geospatial data requirements in geosciences

The Webinar

The ICA-OSGeo Lab Network and MundoGEO are now pleased to inform the second webinar of ”Open Geospatial Science & Applications” webinar series, on November 7th.

Open and free to all on first come register basis, the webinar will be on "Opengeoscience: meeting the UK’s geospatial data requirements in geosciences", by Patrick Bell and Gerry Wildman (British Geological Survey).

In December 2009, the British Geological Survey released OpenGeoscience, a free open access web portal that provides the public with a wealth of geological information which they can combine with other environmental information to help understand the world around them.

OpenGeoscience is made available under the Open Government Licence. Key resources include:
• Attributed detailed geological maps at 1:50,000 scale for the whole of Great Britain
• Over 50,000 high resolution geological photographs, many of which are spatially enabled
• Nearly 1 million borehole records providing details of the geology beneath our feet.

A quarter of a million people visited OpenGeoscience on the day it was released and over 150,000 people walk round everyday with its iGeology smartphone app in their pocket. Four years since its release, we will look at the impact of OpenGeoscience and consider:
• How it has increased access to geoscience information
• How it has raised awareness of what data BGS hold
• How it has driven users to other information on the BGS web site
• How users have combined OpenGeoscience information with their own data and that from other data providers to create exciting new mashup applications, finding innovative uses for our information that we might never have imagined
• How increased accessibility to key national datasets via the web can help grow the UK economy
• How OpenGeoscience sits alongside our commercial knowledge exchange services in a balanced freemium business model approach to information delivery