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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Verdana>Hi all<BR>An open question please... I'm
interested in finding out more about what progress has been made getting the NZ
Topo series into OSM and what plans there are for the future - who should I
contact?<BR><BR>Reuben Williams put together the NZ Topo series in </FONT><A
href="http://www.nztopomaps.com"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.nztopomaps.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> see
attached email. We've published a "guest blog" by Reuben on <SPAN
class=460083023-31082010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Verdana><A
title=http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/nztopomaps-com-improving-access-to-nz-topo-series/
href="http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/nztopomaps-com-improving-access-to-nz-topo-series/">http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/nztopomaps-com-improving-access-to-nz-topo-series/</A><FONT
color=#000000>. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
class=460083023-31082010></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN class=460083023-31082010></SPAN>I'd
love to also promote what is being done with OSM. In particular, I'd love to
post another "guest blog" that addresses questions for the reader,
including:</FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Verdana>
<UL>
<LI><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>what have you done (if possible include a URL
link)?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>how does OSM relate/compare to other
initiatives, such as <A
href="http://www.nztopomaps.com">www.nztopomaps.com</A>?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>what's been challenging/successful?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>who's funding/resourcing this
project?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>how does this work relate to the
Geospatial Strategy?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>next steps?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>who's involved?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>who would you like to work with/what are some
things that other agencies could do to improve the service on offer to
users?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=3 face=Calibri>who can I contact to find out
more?</FONT></LI></UL>
<DIV>If there's anything else you'd like to add feel free to offer this as
well.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Many thanks!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>John<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From:
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digest..."<BR><BR><BR>Today's Topics:<BR><BR> 1. Re: Australia and
New Zealand Available WMS and WFS Services<BR>
(Noli Sicad)<BR> 2. RE: Australia and New Zealand Available WMS and
WFS
Services<BR> [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
(Simon.Pigot@csiro.au)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message:
1<BR>Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:42:51 +1000<BR>From: Noli Sicad
<nsicad@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] Australia and New Zealand
Available WMS and WFS<BR>
Services<BR>To: Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com><BR>Cc:
Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org<BR>Message-ID:<BR>
<AANLkTinGfaN2fx1f9t2MRJrz7khKbr+YOFUSDXX_1h6U@mail.gmail.com><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<BR><BR>Hi Hamish,<BR><BR>> the Geosciences
Australia OGC Web Map server might be of<BR>> interest:<BR>> <BR>>
</FONT><A
href="http://www.ga.gov.au/wms/getmap?dataset=national&request=getCapabiliti"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.ga.gov.au/wms/getmap?dataset=national&request=getCapabiliti</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana>> es<BR><BR>> ? (I don't know much more about it beyond the
url)<BR><BR>It seems to be working. I just tested it using 3G mobile vodafone
connection :-). Just see the layers.<BR><BR>>> Any plans in pipeline
for Australia and New Zealand WMS and WFS<BR>>> services?<BR>><BR>>
the NZopenGPS is currently working at getting the full LINZ topo<BR>> dataset
into OpenStreetMaps. (So far only the Chatham Islands trial is<BR>> 98%
complete) Once that is done I'd like to look at setting it up as a<BR>> Free
WMS(Mapnik or Osmarender styles)/WFS as exists for some parts of<BR>>
Europe.<BR>> </FONT><A href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LINZ"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LINZ</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face=Verdana>Cadastral boundary imports is I think very useful for general
public (e.g. agriculture, forestry, real estate developers, etc.)<BR><BR>> I
believe that for NZ the server loads will probably be low enough to<BR>> be
manageable. Due to expensive bandwidth it would probably have to be<BR>>
limited to NZ only.<BR><BR>Is the server cost or end user cost (download) in
using the service?<BR>If it is server cost, then probably host it somewhere
cheaper.<BR><BR>> (yes, LINZ->postgis->osm->postgis->wms is a
long chain, but hopefully<BR>> not too lossy)<BR><BR>OSM good data provider
but just limited to roads, coastlines, POI.<BR>Cadastral boundary would be good
addition in the case
OSM-NZ.<BR><BR>Thanks.<BR><BR>Noli<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message:
2<BR>Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:17:57 +1000<BR>From:
<Simon.Pigot@csiro.au><BR>Subject: RE: [Aust-NZ] Australia and New Zealand
Available WMS and WFS<BR> Services
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]<BR>To: <Ben.Searle@osdm.gov.au>,
<B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au>,<BR>
<jody.garnett@gmail.com>, <nsicad@gmail.com><BR>Cc:
Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org<BR>Message-ID:<BR>
<1C19E50585A98643871CAFD72AE1976C150FC5EEFB@exvic-mbx03.nexus.csiro.au><BR> <BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"<BR><BR>Hi Ben, Bruce et al,<BR><BR>For sure
GeoNetwork supports ISO19119 services metadata. It also supports auto harvesting
and building a service metadata record (and 19115 metadata records about any
layers available from these services) from an OGC GetCapabilities URL for a
variety of WxS (eg. WMS, WFS).<BR><BR>The original subject seems to be about
finding out about available OGC WxS and in that context what might be nice for
metadata managers (and perhaps others?) would be an ASDD service they could use
to submit the URL of an OGC WxS service for listing in the ASDD. These could be
held in a single metadata record or if important enough (how do we measure this?
ASDD search stats?) their GetCapabilities info could be regularly harvested in
order to build individual metadata records with more detail. (Of course the
usefulness of the 'detail' in these harvested records depends on the people who
manage these OGC services filling out the metadata fields so it can be harvested
from the GetCapabilities request).<BR><BR>We have a similar problem to solve for
Z3950 services searched by the ASDD but the situation is a little more
constrained as we only plan to support the existing Z3950 nodes of the ASDD and
Z3950 services are not self-describing (ie. no GetCapabilities) so the records
will be hand crafted.<BR><BR>I'm working with John Hockaday on this so feel free
to comment on anything here
John.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Simon<BR>________________________________________<BR>From:
aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
Ben.Searle@osdm.gov.au [Ben.Searle@osdm.gov.au]<BR>Sent: Monday, 16 August 2010
9:29 AM<BR>To: B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au; jody.garnett@gmail.com;
nsicad@gmail.com<BR>Cc: Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org<BR>Subject: RE: [Aust-NZ]
Australia and New Zealand Available WMS and WFS Services
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]<BR><BR>Bruce,<BR><BR>Great idea. I will mention this to
Simon Pigot who is doing this work for us.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Ben
Searle<BR>General Manager,<BR>Australian Government Office of Spatial Data
Management<BR><BR>Phone: 02 6249 9298<BR>Mobile: 0439-995-785<BR>Fax: 02 6249
9942<BR>Email: ben.searle@ga.gov.au<</FONT><A
href="mailto:ben.searle@osdm.gov.au"><FONT
face=Verdana>mailto:ben.searle@osdm.gov.au</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>><BR>Web Site URL: </FONT><A
href="http://www.osdm.gov.au/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.osdm.gov.au/</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Verdana>Postal
address: GPO Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601<BR><BR><</FONT><A
href="http://www.cebit.com.au/spatial"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.cebit.com.au/spatial</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>><BR><BR><BR><</FONT><A
href="http://www.cebit.com.au/spatial"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.cebit.com.au/spatial</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Bruce Bannerman
[</FONT><A href="mailto:B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au"><FONT
face=Verdana>mailto:B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>]<BR>Sent: Monday, 16 August 2010 9:05<BR>To: Searle Ben;
jody.garnett@gmail.com; nsicad@gmail.com<BR>Cc:
Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org<BR>Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] Australia and New Zealand
Available WMS and WFS Services [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]<BR><BR>Ben,<BR><BR>Perhaps we
could list them via the new ASDD.<BR><BR>GeoNetwork will support services
metadata in ISO 19119 format (with links ideally to the ASDD metadata describing
the Service?s content).<BR><BR>Bruce<BR><BR><BR>On 16/08/10 8:30 AM,
"Ben.Searle@osdm.gov.au" <Ben.Searle@osdm.gov.au> wrote:<BR><BR>Jodi and
others,<BR><BR>I would be happy to host any list you develop on the new
Gazetteer web site I mentioned in an earlier email. The new web site will
be called OzMap and the gazetteer will be available under OzMap Places. We
are already looking at providing a link to authoritative registers and
vocabularies and so a list of WMS and WFS capabilities would also be very
relevant.<BR><BR><BR>Any thoughts on this?<BR><BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Ben
Searle<BR>General Manager,<BR>Australian Government Office of Spatial Data
Management<BR><BR>Phone: 02 6249 9298<BR>Mobile: 0439-995-785<BR>Fax: 02 6249
9942<BR>Email: ben.searle@ga.gov.au<BR>Web Site URL: </FONT><A
href="http://www.osdm.gov.au/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.osdm.gov.au/</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Verdana>Postal
address: GPO Box 378, Canberra ACT
2601<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From:
aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [</FONT><A
href="mailto:aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org"><FONT
face=Verdana>mailto:aust-nz-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett<BR>Sent: Sunday, 15 August 2010
10:01<BR>To: Noli Sicad<BR>Cc: Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org<BR>Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ]
Australia and New Zealand Available WMS and WFS Services<BR><BR><BR>This is
actually a common question; perhaps one small thing we could do as a group is
list WMS & WFS services available for the region on our wiki
area?<BR><BR>Jody<BR><BR>On 15/08/2010, at 11:52 AM, Noli Sicad
wrote:<BR><BR>> Hi,<BR>><BR>> I am looking for WMS and WFS services to
see the capabilities of QGIS<BR>> in this area. Do you know if any Australia
and New Zealand available<BR>> WMS and WFS services that is open to the
public to browse and use?<BR>><BR>> Yes, I can always try these WMS and
WFS (below)<BR>> </FONT><A
href="http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Available+WMS+and+WFS+servers"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Available+WMS+and+WFS+servers</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana>><BR>> Any plans in pipeline for Australia and New Zealand
WMS and WFS<BR>> services?<BR>><BR>> Thanks.<BR>><BR>>
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