Open Source Geographic Information System at Orange, OW2online, June 2020
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The document outlines Orange France's four-year journey in GIS, focusing on managing legacy data and enhancing map usage across applications with a large team serving 3,500 daily users. It discusses the platform's open-source strategy, partnerships for skill improvement, and community involvement, which have led to performance enhancements and contributions to the QGIS community. Key challenges include complex data management and compliance with standards.
Open Source Geographic Information System at Orange, OW2online, June 2020
- 1. Our 4 years GIS Journey at Orange France Vincent Flipo / Orange Bertrand Parpoil / Oslandia
- 2. 2 Orange 2020 – External Communication § Goals: • Manage Orange network legacy Data • Spread map usage across Orange applications (mobility…) • Answer to DT-DICT § The team (30 people) : • Project Manager • Functional / Software Architect • Experts • Analysts • Tester • DevOps § Users: • 3500 daily users (potential 25 000) Context
- 3. 3 Orange 2020 – External Communication GIS platform OSS (1/2) API GIS Services WPSWFSWMS TMS Print Business Applications Portal DT/DICT Imports Data Repositories Business Internal Non business External Non Business Cadastral Plan & Open Data Extracts
- 4. 4 Orange 2020 – External Communication GIS Plateforme OSS (2/2) APIBusiness applications GIS Services Data Referentials Infrastructure
- 5. 5 Orange 2020 – External Communication § Independance from Editor roadmap / license model § Editor protocols are sometimes non fully compliant with OGC défined standards like WMS/WFS Orange Open Source vs Editor
- 6. 6 Orange 2020 – External Communication Complexity of data and use cases § Various formats • zoom levels • profile management • Layer overlay § Huge number of displayed objects via the WMS flow § complex geoprocessing (e.g. DT-DICT) § Large volume of Data > 8 Billion Objects § data technical knowledge (geographical formats) GIS Data characteristics
- 7. 7 Orange 2020 – External Communication Orange has chosen community-based tools § Worldwide contributors § Sustainability of components § Modular by Design § Freedom (“free as in speech”) • Customization vs evolution • Orange’s own roadmap § Performances monitoring An open source strategy
- 8. 8 Orange 2020 – External Communication Orange has also built a partnership to : § Take an active part in the open sources communities § Improve internal skills § Externalize development requiring expert skills via a partnership contract An open source strategy
- 9. 9 Orange 2020 – External Communication The partnership allowed Orange to quickly : § Improve rendering performances in QGIS 3 § Fix 8bits mode with transparency § Create Community dockerfiles for QGIS server § Certify WMS 1.3 for QGIS Server with an automated testing platform • Now used by QGIS.org Some contributions
- 10. 10 Orange 2020 – External Communication § Open source communities structure and complexity can be difficult to grasp § Individuals are acknolwedged by the communities, not companies. § Upstream discussions ease new features integration § Issues may be fixed faster in underlying libraries and for greater community benefit Oslandia acts on the behalf of Orange withing the QGIS community. Partnership
- 11. 11 Orange 2020 – External Communication Flexibility and reactivity § Collaborative support platform § Prepaid time credit § Transparency over Time spent § One validation level even for large projects § Reduced paperwork How to make the partnership works
- 12. Thank you Vincent Flipo / Bertrand Parpoil