[Aust-NZ] Re: FOSS4G WMS/WFS Recommended Servers

[Jody Garnett]

I few more:

GeoScience Australia:
- http://www.ga.gov.au/map/broker/

And:
- http://www.ga.gov.au/map/broker/opengis.jsp

On this page their three example GetMap Request produces an error
"Dataset not specified".

This page was provided in 2003 on the canri-talk mailing list:
- http://www.anzlic.org.au/infrastructure_standards_OGCservices.html

Jody

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Jody Garnett<jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Morning:
>
> I am putting together a couple tutorials/workshops for FOSS4G - and
> need to have some WMS / WFS severs I can trust to stay up. My needs in
> previous years have been met by the serves here
> (http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DATA/Home).
>
> This year I am going to have to come up with a new list:
> - services should be local to Australia (the high latency of servers
> in Europe and north America makes for a poor demo)
> - services should be up for the conference (and be capable of support
> the high load)
> - information should be vaguely interesting
>
> Does anyone have suggestions/recommendations? We probably should shop
> the resulting list around to other workshop/tutorial writers along
> with the reminder about latency.
>
> I have already considered:
> - SLIP (http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DATA/SLIP) -
> the requirement to get an account and sign on; not all layers can be
> trusted to resolve (perhaps resolve in a timely fashion? makes no
> difference)
> - CCIP - while the project is coming together it is not in place now
> and I need to start writing
>
> Jody
>