Who am I?

Edd Lewis

BGS Open Standards Lead (& FOSS advocate)

8 years Geologist in MinEx/Mining

5 years in Government (Data Standards & Governance/Capacity Building/Mineral Promotion/Resource Policy)

edlew@bgs.ac.uk Follow @koalageo

BGS

  • National geological survey founded in 1835
  • UK custodian of geoscientific information
  • Independent
  • 600 staff
  • Part of UKRI, a not-for-profit public sector research establishment
  • Funded by Government & external income
  • Offices at Keyworth, Wallingford, Edinburgh & Cardiff

BGS

  • Work with Gov, Academia & Industry
  • Central Government Advice
  • Services to agencies/statutory bodies - Network Rail, Environment Agency
  • Services to local gov - Brownfield development, mineral planning

National Geoscience Data Centre

  • All data funded by NERC
  • Voluntary data deposits - Geotech drilling, Aggregates Production
  • Statutory data deposits - Minerals drilling
  • Geology

Commercial Data Services

  • 10k & 50k Geology
  • Value Added Data Products
  • Geosure
  • Geoclimate
  • Brownfield Site Development Cost Estimation

Some BGS Projects

BGS•Σigma

Groundog Desktop

Sensor Data

OGCAPI

Other

BGS IT Infrastructure

  • Self-hosted virtual machines running on premises
  • Long-standing corporate Oracle database
  • Increasing use of PostgreSQL for microservices and collaborative projects

Generic Digital Workflow

SIGMA > GroundHog

Central Data Store

Mapping

Focus on 50k

Generally undertaken only as part of other commercial projects

Want to make a single Best Available scale map using the 10k, 50k & 250k mapping

Final Outputs

Data!

No longer produce physical maps - can order from shop & are printed on demand

Available as downloads or web services / API's

BGS•Σigma

Integrated tool kit for digital geological data capture

Price: Free!

BGS•Σigma


Wanted a new approach with consistant data: field, maps, 3D models, other data products

Prototyped 2001

First release 2006

Latest release 2015

BGS•Σigma

BGS•Σigma

SIGMAdesktop

SIGMAdesktop

Suite of tools to assist in map compilation and decision making

  • Combining data from all geologists into one database for generating final data compilation for the project. Entry of field observation points along with linked data
  • Cleaning linework
  • Generating polygons
  • Add more data / hide data

BGS•SIGMate

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Under Evaluation

ArcGIS Field Maps


Further Info

Nikki Smith (BD Digital): nasm@bgs.ac.uk https://www.bgs.ac.uk/research/sigma/home.html

Training/Customisation/Development

Groundhog Desktop

GroundHog


Borehole Database Integration

Direct link to BGS & OS Web Services

Collab: BGS, GTK, SGU

Latest release 2020!

Community & Professional Editions

Price: Free! (Community edition)

Boreholes

Cross Sections

Implicit 3D Modelling

Only interpolation engine geared to shallow quaternary deposits

Groundhog Documentation

Moved away from PDF to HTML. Hosted and built on Github Pages using Sphinx

Further Info

LinkedIn / YouTube / BGS Website Ben Wood (Product Manager): groundhog@bgs.ac.uk

Training/Customisation/Development

Further Modelling

Primarily use GoCAD

Models generally shared as files directly with users/3DPDF

Looking to move to glTF or Voxel models

Build visualisation tool / portal using ESRI API

Loop Project

Involved in WP1 & WP2 knowledge extraction work

UKGEOS

A a network of observatories is being established to deliver essential new data from deep underground.

UK Geoenergy Observatories

Research Opportunities

UK Geoenergy Observatories
sensors.bgs.ac.uk

Standards

Value of geospatial is becoming more significant as the public and private sectors further embrace location


Standards play an important role in facilitating interoperability of location information and applications for improved situational awareness, business intelligence and decision making.

Standards Timeline

GIS Data

Recently included GeoPackage in data download options.


GeoPackage

Starting to also receive GeoPackage with data requests

http://switchfromshapefile.org/

GIS Data

Deployment of pygeoapi - OGCAPI-Features

More datasets coming soon - WFS > OGCAPI-Features

https://osgeodev.bgs.ac.uk/pygeoapi/ pygeoapi

OGCAPI-Features

  • Initially our OGL Data Products
  • Supported on ESRI & QGIS
  • Needed to run as infrastructure as code
  • Use our private cloud infrastructure on Kubenetes
  • pygeoapi selected for the task

Architecture

Architecture

BGS Instance

Our pygeoapi server

pygeoapi Summary

  • Easy to setup
  • Lightweight
  • Customisable
  • Supports multiple OGCAPI standards
  • Well supported dev community

Vector Tiles

Testing Production of Vector Tiles

Advantages over WMS in speed & flexibility

Using Tippecanoe, pg_tileserv & ESRI

AGS Borehole Data

Working with AGS data format committee on a AGS data validator - API & GUI


Python Libary repo

Will build generic framework based on FastAPI so can be reskinned for multiple deployents. Support for alternative versions like AGS-Australia on roadmap


Tools

Major issue of symbology tied to ESRI infrastructure


SLYR to the rescue!

SLYR

ESRI to QGIS Compatibility Suite

BGS Data


Errors due to CRS (OSGB36) but styling is correct

Wrap Up


BGS always interested in collaboration


In both Research & Technology


Questions?