[Live-demo] pywps to osgeo-live

Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 05:47:18 PDT 2014


On 08/04/2014 01:50 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> I agree with Ian.
>
> To avoid confusion I think we should perhaps update our overview and
> split up web services [1]. Now it reads: "publishing spatial data to
> the internet". That does not cover all services, nor is the list very
> understandable.
>
> I suggest split it up in data publishing services, metadata publishing
> services, processing services and other services. With a short
> explanation of what they mean with a reference to the pages describing
> the standards that we already have [2].
>
> I believe these standards pages also need some more care. I really
> wonder if anyone who is not familiar can read those.
>
> The user with little domain-specific knowledge should probably first
> find out that what he really needs is a WPS service, and then have a
> look at the different possibilities. In fact one could argue that we
> could have a quickstart about consuming the services could be separate
> from the quickstart for configuring services...
>
> [1] http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html
> [2] http://live.osgeo.org/en/standards/standards.html
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I agree that PyWPS should be included in OSGeoLive in 8.5.

Having a better application to demonstrate its capabilities, or a 
quickstart using QGIS WPS plugin would be a nice thing to have.
Same applies for Iris, a nice demonstration is what new users will see 
first ;)

Best,
Angelos

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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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