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## PDF output using pandoc
import os
### Export this notebook as markdown
commandLineSyntax = 'ipython nbconvert --to markdown 20190306_Global_Address_Characteristics_Presentation.ipynb'
print (commandLineSyntax)
os.system(commandLineSyntax)
### Export this notebook and the document header as PDF using Pandoc
commandLineSyntax = 'pandoc -f markdown -t latex -N -V geometry:margin=1in DocumentHeader.md 20190306_Global_Address_Characteristics_Presentation.md --filter pandoc-citeproc --latex-engine=xelatex --toc -o interim.pdf '
os.system(commandLineSyntax)
### Remove cruft from the pdf
commandLineSyntax = 'pdftk interim.pdf cat 1-5 22-end output 20190306_Global_Address_Characteristics_Presentation.pdf'
os.system(commandLineSyntax)
### Remove the interim pdf
commandLineSyntax = 'rm interim.pdf'
os.system(commandLineSyntax)
To convert and run this as a static presentation run the following command:
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# Notes don't show in a python3 environment
!jupyter nbconvert UseMe_BasedOn2015Presentation.ipynb --to slides --post serve
To close this instances press control 'c' in the ipython notebook terminal console
Static presentations allow the presenter to see speakers notes (use the 's' key)
If running dynamically run the scripts below
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#Future proof python 2
from __future__ import print_function #For python3 print syntax
from __future__ import division
# def
import IPython.core.display
# A function to collect user input - ipynb_input(varname='username', prompt='What is your username')
def ipynb_input(varname, prompt=''):
"""Prompt user for input and assign string val to given variable name."""
js_code = ("""
var value = prompt("{prompt}","");
var py_code = "{varname} = '" + value + "'";
IPython.notebook.kernel.execute(py_code);
""").format(prompt=prompt, varname=varname)
return IPython.core.display.Javascript(js_code)
# inline
%pylab inline
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Dr. Anthony Beck (GeoLytics Ltd.)
6th March 2019
18:30 - 19:45 What characteristics are required for Global Address applications in the 21st century?
Speaker: Dr Ant Beck
Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
[BCS link](http://www.edinburgh.bcs.org/events/index.htm)
[GIT link](https://github.com/AntArch/Presentations_Github/tree/master/20190306_BCS_Scotland_Presentation)Ant is as an interdisciplinarian working at the interfaces of geo-science, heritage, smart-cities, remote sensing, plant and soil science, computing and knowledge engineering. He has undertaken research in a number of contrasting fields (humanities, social science and science) and is committed to approaches that maximize academic, industry, policy and public impact. Project work include:
He is a passionate advocate of Open Science and sees this as a way to increase the impact of science in society. Since 2015 Ant has provided GIScience, Knowledge Engineering and Data Analytics consultancy services. He is currently undertaking a conceptual redesign of Scotland's Land Register. Ant is still research active: he was the lead author on an urban energy modelling paper published in 2018 and is a co-author on a recently submitted subsurface utility detection paper. He is a father. He juggles.
An address is much more than a representation of a property: when included as part of a nation’s infrastructure, an address helps to provide social and legal identity. By providing a fundamental knowledge base to inform decision making and action, addresses help to develop, implement and support other critical national policies such as:
Addressing the world: an address for everyone co-ordinated by the Universal Postal Union documents in detail the problems that poor address infrastructure and address interoperability pose. As part of the solution this white paper neatly summarises the state of the art in addressing and advocates approaches to improve addressing aimed at nation states. Key to this is the assumption that an address requires a road network, a street name and a house number. This national address infrastructure can be a significant barrier to implementation and can starkly highlight the division between urban and rural communities. However, technology is disrupting this status-quo and the 21st Century will see significant change in address infrastructure.
This presentation examines the assumption that credible addresses require an underlying address infrastructure. By removing the need for address infrastucture (and conflation of national address systems) it is possible to define the characteristics of a global address framework. Inevitably any global address framework will take advantage of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning (such as GPS). However, the characteristics of how this is implemented will have significant implications in their re-use scenarios. We will discuss the key characteristics of a global address framework in terms of impact.
Poor’ & Nations Development Programme’, 2008. Making the law work for everyone: Vol 1 - report of the commission on legal empowerment of the poor, Available at: http://www.unrol.org/doc.aspx?n=Making_the_Law_Work_for_Everyone.pdf [Accessed January 12, 2015].
UPU, 2012. Addressing the world: an address for everyone, Universal Postal Union. Available at: http://www.upu.int/en/activities/addressing/addressing-the-world-initiative.html [Accessed November 5, 2014].
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The World Bank has taken a street addressing view-point (@_addressing_2012, p.57). This requires up-to-date mapping and bureacracy (to deliver a street gazetteer and to provide the street infrastructure (furniture)). However, (@_addressing_2012, p.44) demonstrates that this is a cumbersome process with a number of issues, not the least:
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It is almost impossible for individuals to be part of society without a legal identity.
4 billion people are excluded from the rule of law because they do not have a legal identity, and that establishing such an identity often depends on having an official address.
Addresses appear to be a key element in aiding the delivery of policies at national and international levels ....
@_addressing_2012 p. 6
... particularly with regard to:
@_addressing_2012 p. 6
This century is witnessing a fundamental change in our way of life; for the first time in history, half of the world’s population lives in towns and cities.
Urban areas are growing faster in developing countries, mostly through informal settlements.
The lack of an address, particularly in informal settlements, can also mean the lack of legal identity, equal opportunities for employment and social integration.
@_addressing_2012 p. 6
Addresses are becoming a basic human right.
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The situation is best summarised by the open access Danish addressing commons [@_addressing_2012 p. 54]:
The re-use statistics are staggering:
There is no such thing as an unmatched address.
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Is there a universal approach which allows all avenues to be satisfied?
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