1. Don McGregor Research Associate MOVES Institute
Commercial Maps in M&S
Don McGregor
Research Associate
MOVES Institute
Understanding global peace and conflict means understanding of human communities in the midst of and in response to change. US Joint Forces Command noted that “changes in the strategic landscape… new technologies, and the adaptation and creativity of our adversaries will alter….operations a great deal. Here too, the past can suggest much about the future – the nature of change, its impacts on human societies….”
This presentation provides an overview of the project and research methodology, progress to date and planned go-forward efforts.
2008. The Joint Operating Environment, United States Joint Forces Command Center for Joint Futures (J59).

2. Maps
The US Government does a lot of mapping via various organizations such as National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
There are various sources such as Common Map Background, M&S Terrain Database Library, DTED, etc
But the free(ish) sources provide some interesting capabilities

3. Maps
Maps are regarded as a strategic business by companies like Google and Apple and Bing. The ability to direct customers to a brick and mortar business is a big lure for advertisers
They devote a lot of resources to maps as a result, at least in the developed countries

4. Google Maps
Not free. You can use Google Maps for low volume and experimental uses with a developer’s API key. Commercial use requires a payment
Has a number of interesting capabilities, including route finding, elevation data, images, street view
Most commonly used with a Javascript API
You can buy a Google Earth server to bring it inside the security enclave
Multiple platforms: mobile, web, web services
Content is often based on government sources that have been post-processed by Google

5. Google Maps Elevation API
Roads API (correlate GPS breadcrumbs to roads)
Geolocation (find location based on cell towers, WiFi)
Geocoding (convert address to lat/lon)
Reverse geocoding (lat/lon to address)
Directions (can be used as low-rent AI for entity movement)
Places (Information about commercial businesses in an area)

6. Simple Maps in Web Page See DIS_Map, googleMaps.html
Script tag to import google maps JS api
Browser geolocation code (W3C standard)
MapOptions, Map, and div for “map-canvas”

7. Google Maps

8. Open Source Maps
Assorted groups are working on open source implementations of maps and related technologies
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (osgeo.org) does a lot of work here
Open Street Map implements a map server and database of locations.
Open Layers is a Javascript API for working with map-based data

9. Open Street Map

10. Open Layers
You can layer multiple image or data representations on top of maps

11. Open Layers

12. Osmbuildings.org

13. Maps with Data

14. Maps
Open Maps is fed by a “tile server” to retrieve content at various resolutions. It’s possible to feed your own maps into OSM
// Empty vector, used in the icon layer
var vectorSource = new ol.source.Vector({ });
// Monterey icon
var iconFeature = new ol.Feature({
geometry: new
ol.geom.Point(ol.proj.transform(montereyLonLat, 'EPSG:4326', 'EPSG:3857')),
name: 'Monterey Icon',
eid:JSON.stringify(espdu.entityID),
lastHeardFrom:new Date()
});
// add it to the vectorSource that will be used in the icon layer
vectorSource.addFeature(iconFeature);

15. Maps: Projections
'EPSG:4326’ and the like refer to the ‘projection’, the technique for portraying a round(ish) sphere on a flat surface.

16. Projections

17. Google Maps Directions API

18. Directions Request
Object literal request object. Most of these are optional. {
origin: "Chicago, IL",
destination: "Los Angeles, CA",
waypoints: [
location:"Joplin, MO",
stopover:false
},{
location:"Oklahoma City, OK",
stopover:true
}],
provideRouteAlternatives: false,
travelMode: google.maps.TravelMode.DRIVING,
drivingOptions: {
departureTime: new Date(/* now, or future date */),
trafficModel: google.maps.TrafficModel.PESSIMISTIC }
unitSystem: UnitSystem.IMPERIAL

19. Directions (approximate)
var dirService = new DirectionsService()
dirService.route(dirObject, callBackFunction); …
function callBackFunction(response, status) {
if(status == google.maps.DirectionStatus.OK)
var waypoints = response.geocoded_waypoints;
for(int idx = 0 idx < waypoints.length; idx++
var aWaypoint = waypoints[idx];
var legs = aWaypoint.legs;
// an array of DirectionLegs, with a startLocation
// and endLocation, and a path, and array of latlngs }

20. API

21. StreetView
See
Interesting because it can give a low-rent rehearsal ability for very limited circumstances

22. Elevation Useful for line of sight calculations

23. Speed Limits Somewhat realistic speed data for roads
Pay only

24. D3 http://d3js.org/ Data visualization, charts, etc in Javascript
Basically, we have access to all the data on the web. The implications of combining this with simulation data is in its infancy.
Maybe a simulation control panel with summary statistics for PDU types, regions, entity types, forces, health, etc.