[mapserver-dev] 6.0 release scheduling

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Hi Peter,

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> I'm right now in front of the INSPIRE View Services docs and would add another item to that list: metadata. There is a large part of the specs dedicated to metadata, which is covered by a INSPIRE specific namespce (http://inspire.europa.eu/networkservice/view/1.0). Some of that metadata must be included in the capabilities document in order to conform to the INSPIRE guidelines.
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are you refering to elements that are part of the ExtendedCapabilities 
element such as ResourceType  SpatialDataServiceType, ... ?  There seems 
to be a series of manadatory and optional elements that need to be part 
of the ExtendedCapabilities  element. Outside the extended capabilities, 
there are also few other metadata such as abstract, fees,  that are 
mandatory  (same elements that we find in regular wms)

I think there will be a need to define in the map file an option to 
indicate that the capabilities need to be extended and extension should 
be done according to the inspire specs.  We can then have specific 
functions that can be added to read inspire type metadata to populate 
the  ExtendedCapabilities  part of the document.

  Basically from what I can see, here are the things I see need to be 
part of the capabilities document:
   - add a link to the inspire schema as part of the overall schema list
   - generate an ExtendedCapabilities
   - include all elements by reading inspire type metadata
   - all other metadata outside that extended capabilities should 
already be part of the regular wms output

What other elements need to be there to make it a valid getcapabilities 
response?

Are there other docs related to the spec beside 
http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Network_Services/Technical_Guidance_View_Services_v2.12.pdf

regards,

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