About the project
Team Members
Matthias Kraus
Funding Period
In funding since 01/06/2025
What is the project about?
Situation maps are an important tool for emergency services such as fire departments, rescue services, and dispatch centers to prepare and carry out operations. In cross-organizational operations, there has been no efficient way to work on a shared situation map across organizations. The lack of interfaces leads to time-consuming manual exchange of exports or screenshots, costs valuable time during operations, and poses security and data protection risks. OpenGeoMesh combines existing standards for file sharing and geoinformation systems to enable emergency services to collaborate seamlessly on situation maps using their respective specialized map applications.
Which audience does the project address?
The project aims to help aid organizations such as fire departments, rescue services, mountain rescue services, water rescue services, THW (Federal Agency for Technical Relief), control centers, and disaster control agencies that use situation maps for their operations and collaborate with other organizations to maintain an overview.
What is to be achieved?
OpenGeoMesh combines the file sharing standard Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) with the standard OGC API Features, thus providing an implementation of a unified, federated protocol. To make the project as easy to integrate as possible, a proxy is implemented that uses OCM to create and receive map shares and also makes the map layers available to the various users (groups). The implementation of OCM is also published as a separately usable Rust library.
