[Mapserver-inspire] MapServer and INSPIRE

Rahkonen Jukka Jukka.Rahkonen at mmmtike.fi
Mon Apr 18 06:09:23 EDT 2011


Hi,

In Finland we can wait for 6.2.

-Jukka Rahkonen-

Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> 
> +1 for Daniel's suggestion for official support in v6.2
> 
> This will give us some more time to work on the other requirements of 
> the latest INSPIRE document (v3.0)
> 
> http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Network_Services/Tec
> hnicalGuidance_ViewServices_v3.0.pdf
> 
> Regards,
> Angelos
> 
> On 04/18/2011 05:58 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> > On 11-04-16 03:08 PM, Martin Kofahl wrote:
> >> Thanks to James, I could easily extend the GetCapabilities 
> output for 
> >> scenario 1 and focused on multi-language support for now. We could 
> >> take advantage of MapServer variable substitution from url.
> >>
> >> Please take a look at 
> >> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3608#comment:11
> >>
> >
> > I see that you raised priority on the ticket, possibly in the hope 
> > that we can fit this in 6.0? This caught the attention of 
> the release 
> > manager. ;-)
> >
> > Unfortunately I think it's too late to put this in 6.0 and 
> this should 
> > be pushed to 6.2. Note that there are talks of doing a 6.2 in the 
> > summer (definitely before FOSS4G) so the delay would not be 
> too long. 
> > In the meantime users who require this level of INSPIRE 
> support could 
> > apply the patch locally, but there are a few reasons why I think we 
> > should wait until 6.2 for the official release of this code:
> >
> > 1- We are way past the 6.0 feature freeze and this is clearly a new 
> > feature and not a bug fix
> >
> > 2- Unless I'm mistaken, this patch addresses only a subset of the 
> > INSPIRE requirements and may not be compatible with a more complete 
> > solution that would come in 6.2 to more widely address INSPIRE 
> > requirements (what this mapserver-inspire group needs to 
> work on)... 
> > what I mean is that once something like this is released, 
> it will be 
> > nearly impossible to take it out, so I'd rather wait until 
> we have a 
> > solid solution instead of putting something in that we may have to 
> > take back out later.
> >
> > What do others think?
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Angelos Tzotsos
> Remote Sensing Laboratory
> National Technical University of Athens
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
> 
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