questions about setting up SOS

[Jeff McKenna]

(SOS people on the list can correct if I'm wrong...)

I think they answer is yes, define 2 layers each with their own 
observedproperty_id.

jeff



John Cartwright wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm trying to understand how to configure a mapfile to serve data out of 
> Oracle Spatial using Mapserver's SOS_SERVER and am a little confused 
> about the relationship between the sos_procedure, 
> sos_observedproperty_id, and sos_offering_id.
> It looks like the sos_procedure and sos_observedproperty_id must be 
> unique to each layer in the mapfile.  So if I have a system of buoys 
> that each measure temperature and salinity, would I define two layers 
> pointing to the same spatial data and sharing the same sos_offering_id 
> value?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- john
> 
>   LAYER
>      NAME observations_tmp
>        METADATA
>            "sos_procedure"  "tmp"
>            "sos_offering_id" "argo"
>            "sos_observedproperty_id" "ztmp"
>            "sos_describesensor_url" "http://some/url/"
>          END
>      TYPE point
>      DATA buoy.shp
>   END
> 
>   LAYER
>      NAME observations_sal
>        METADATA
>            "sos_procedure"  "sal"
>            "sos_offering_id" "argo"
>            "sos_observedproperty_id" "zsal"
>            "sos_describesensor_url" "http://some/url/"
>          END
>      TYPE point
>      DATA buoy.shp
>   END
> 


-- 
Jeff McKenna
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca