[Inspire-data] inspire-foss project

[Just van den Broecke]

Dear All/Jo,

We started this project in Bolsena during the OSGeo Code Sprint. See 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vjx06Rlols

Starting point was the INSPIRE work from the Dutch Kadaster. This work 
is described here: http://inspire.kademo.nl/doc/

During the Bolsena Code Sprint last June I worked closely with the
deegree developers to have a cleaner implementation with (upcoming)
deegree3. Within 5 minutes we had a WFS supporting _all_ Annex I themes!
We built a simple demo:
http://inspire.kademo.nl/deegree-inspire-demo

In Bolsena we started http://code.google.com/p/inspire-foss and later on 
a  companion-project with Geodan http://code.google.com/p/geoext-viewer 
which covers the web-client for viewing complex data.

The main goal for the inspire-foss project is to create components for
the entire chain to support INSPIRE Download/View Services (ETL, DB, Web
services via WFS/WMS). The initial setup has worked well within ESDIN
and we have something tangible. The basic idea of the architecture is
simple:

- create (a) PostGIS data model(s) close to Annex I-III data themes
- configure deegree (or GeoServer) to serve INSPIRE-compliant data as
WFS/WMS from this DB
- provide components for ETL such that NMA's can publish their data to
this setup via WFS-T (already working), directly to DB or other means

So we have just begun. Frans is now busy trying to add 
GeoGraphicalNames. We have a dev-mailing list at 
http://groups.google.com/group/inspire-foss-devel, so anyone who likes 
to join is welcome.

Hope this clarifies some. best,

--Just

Just van den Broecke  just at justobjects.nl
The Netherlands       http://www.justobjects.nl


Jo Walsh wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> I bumped into this via ESDIN - is the group here aware of this effort
> http://code.google.com/p/inspire-foss/
> 
> Frans, did you know there's a group within OSGeo looking at common FOSS 
> INSPIRE platform - see also
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE_data_experiments
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> jo