[Aust-NZ] Australia and New Zealand Available WMS and WFS Services [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Sun Aug 15 21:17:57 PDT 2010

Hi Ben, Bruce et al,

For sure GeoNetwork supports ISO19119 services metadata. It also supports auto harvesting and building a service metadata record (and 19115 metadata records about any layers available from these services) from an OGC GetCapabilities URL for a variety of WxS (eg. WMS, WFS). 

The original subject seems to be about finding out about available OGC WxS and in that context what might be nice for metadata managers (and perhaps others?) would be an ASDD service they could use to submit the URL of an OGC WxS service for listing in the ASDD. These could be held in a single metadata record or if important enough (how do we measure this? ASDD search stats?) their GetCapabilities info could be regularly harvested in order to build individual metadata records with more detail. (Of course the usefulness of the 'detail' in these harvested records depends on the people who manage these OGC services filling out the metadata fields so it can be harvested from the GetCapabilities request).

We have a similar problem to solve for Z3950 services searched by the ASDD but the situation is a little more constrained as we only plan to support the existing Z3950 nodes of the ASDD and Z3950 services are not self-describing (ie. no GetCapabilities) so the records will be hand crafted. 

I'm working with John Hockaday on this so feel free to comment on anything here John.

Cheers,
Simon
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Subject: RE: [Aust-NZ] Australia and New Zealand Available WMS and WFS  Services [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Bruce,

Great idea.  I will mention this to Simon Pigot who is doing this work for us.

Regards

Ben Searle
General Manager,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Bannerman [mailto:B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au]
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Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] Australia and New Zealand Available WMS and WFS Services [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Ben,

Perhaps we could list them via the new ASDD.

GeoNetwork will support services metadata in ISO 19119 format (with links ideally to the ASDD metadata describing the Service’s content).

Bruce

On 16/08/10 8:30 AM, "Ben.Searle at osdm.gov.au" <Ben.Searle at osdm.gov.au> wrote:

Jodi and others,

I would be happy to host any list you develop on the new Gazetteer web site I mentioned in an earlier email.  The new web site will be called OzMap and the gazetteer will be available under OzMap Places.  We are already looking at providing a link to authoritative registers and vocabularies and so a list of WMS and WFS capabilities would also be very relevant.

Any thoughts on this?

Regards

Ben Searle
General Manager,
Australian Government Office of Spatial Data Management

Phone: 02 6249 9298
Mobile: 0439-995-785
Fax: 02 6249 9942
Email: ben.searle at ga.gov.au
Web Site URL: http://www.osdm.gov.au/
Postal address: GPO Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601

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From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett
Sent: Sunday, 15 August 2010 10:01
To: Noli Sicad
Cc: Aust-NZ at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] Australia and New Zealand Available WMS and WFS Services

This is actually a common question; perhaps one small thing we could do as a group is list WMS & WFS services available for the region on our wiki area?

Jody

On 15/08/2010, at 11:52 AM, Noli Sicad wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking for WMS and WFS services to see the capabilities of QGIS
> in this area. Do you know if any Australia and New Zealand available
> WMS and WFS services that is open to the public to browse and use?
>
> Yes, I can always try these WMS and WFS (below)
> http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Available+WMS+and+WFS+servers
>
> Any plans in pipeline for Australia and New Zealand WMS and WFS
> services?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Noli
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