[Mapserver-inspire] Re: Roadmap for WFS 2.0 and INSPIRE Download Service

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

That document is pretty old but the fresh working group draft is perhaps not public yet. However, I do not believe that it is a big secret that now it looks like downloading predefined datasets would be based either on Atom feeds pointing to download URL or then WFS 2.0 Stored queries. Direct access would be based on full WFS 2.0.

First step in the Mapserver roadmap might be to give a WFS 2.0 support for Stored Queries. I think that in simple cases it could be enought to have only BBOX as a parameter, all the rest could be fixed.

-Jukka Rahkonen-

Nash, Edward wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> it is good to see that support for the INSPIRE View Service 
> is firmly planned for the 6.2 release. Unfortunately, the 
> INSPIRE requirements don't stop there: the first date for 
> implementation/provision of the INSPIRE Download Service 
> (think WFS) is approaching fast - June 28th of this year to be exact.
> 
> The final "Technical Guidance" is not yet finished, but is 
> expected around March and drafts are available [1]. A large 
> part of this ("Direct access download service") bases on WFS 
> 2.0, with some extra functionality for "Pre-defined datasets 
> or pre-defined parts of dataset" (basically static file download).
> 
> My questions are therefore:
> - is there already a plan or a roadmap for implementing WFS 
> 2.0? I see in the plan for integrating TinyOWS that this is 
> mentioned, but haven't found anything concrete.
> - has anyone already looked at the INSPIRE Download Service 
> drafts and whether/how/when they could be implemented in 
> MapServer (with or without TinyOWS)? It seems likely that it 
> would be sensible to do this at the same time as WFS 2.0.
> 
> If there are not yet any plans even for WFS 2.0 then I would 
> offer that I and my colleagues could have a look into both 
> WFS 2.0 and/or the Download Service and try and identify what 
> is required, maybe even draw up an RFC and/or start on 
> implementation so that it may be possible that MapServer can 
> offer timely support for these specifications.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Edward Nash
> 
> [1] 
> http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reports/ImplementingRules/netw
> ork/Draft_Technical_Guidance_Download_Services_v1.0.pdf
> 
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