# DWG 7 Updates 2023-03-29 UN Open GIS Monthly --- ## Today's topics 1. Smart Maps Bazaar 2. Smart Maps meetup --- ## Smart Maps Bazaar (SMB) - In Smart Maps, **we connect data and apps**. - Host heavy cloud-optimized data on **IPFS**. - IPFS: InterPlanetary File System - old name: InterPlanetary Operations (IPO) --- ### User story Users share **hundreds of gigabytes** of cloud-optimized open geospatial data, such as imagery, point cloud, vector tiles or city models, **without a server** from anywhere with an Internet connection. --- ### Steps for data providers 1. **Create** cloud-optimized data, in such as COG, COPC, PMTiles or 3D Tiles. 2. **Share** the data from their IPFS node. 3. **Connect** their node with smb.optgeo.org node. 4. Anyone can access the data through `https://smb.optgeo.org/ipfs/${cid}`. --- ### Implementation (1) kubo We use `kubo`, an OS IPFS implementation.  --- ### Implementation (2) SMB architecture  Smart Maps Bazaar is in-kind contribution by **Sakura Internet** through **Code for Japan**. --- ## Smart Maps Bazaar demo: Hosting 'Open Nagasaki' --- Nagasaki Prefecture recently released LiDAR data from https://opennagasaki.nerc.or.jp/  --- ### Demo: click to open [](https://viewer.copc.io?state=bfcf611aa31549395b37af2ce1c9bcf23642828f26542375338760c644a9d94e) Tips: give a large point budget. --- ### Hardware implementation  --- ## Smart Maps meetup 1. Weekly 25-minute meetups online - Successfully held 16 times - In a local language (Japanese) 2. Monthly **international** meetups online? - Each mid-month? - In a UN working language (English) - Time: good for Gujarat and California. --- ### Thank you