[Portugal] Fwd: [ckan-discuss] New geospatial features for CKAN

[Giovanni Manghi]

> -------- Messaggio originale --------
> Oggetto: [ckan-discuss] New geospatial features for CKAN
> Data: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:57:34 +0100
> Mittente: Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org>
> A: CKAN discuss <ckan-discuss at lists.okfn.org>, CKAN Development 
> Discussions	<ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org>
> 
> We are pleased to announce the release of a set of new geospatial
> features for CKAN, which are now live on the test server:
> 
>   http://test.ckan.net.
> 
> ckanext-spatial [1] offers support for adding geographic information
> to datasets, enabling all kinds of cool things like spatial queries,
> map mashups, integration with other GIS tools etc.
> 
> These are the latest features that we added:
> 
> * Geometries can be defined via the 'spatial' extra, in GeoJSON [2]
> format. Check out these test datasets to get an idea of how the
> spatial extent is used and see the newly added map showing the dataset
> coverage:
> 
> http://test.ckan.net/dataset/test-dataset-extent-polygon
> http://test.ckan.net/dataset/test-dataset-extent-point
> 
> 
> * Datasets with geographic information can be queried via a new API
> call that supports bounding box queries:
> 
> http://test.ckan.net/api/2/search/package/geo?bbox=-180,-90,90,180
> 
> 
> * Another (experimental) feature is the ability to preview Web Map
> Services (WMS). If a dataset has a resource with format 'WMS', a light
> map viewer can be accessed to preview the service layers:
> 
> http://test.ckan.net/package/test-wms--wales-natural-risk-zones/map
> 
> 
> You can learn more about these features visiting the following wiki page:
> 
> http://wiki.ckan.org/Geospatial_Capabilities
> 
> We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions.
> Also, for those of you who are interested in the geospatial
> capabilities of CKAN, we are preparing an online meetup for the week
> starting next 10th October. Stay tuned!
> 
> 
> Looking forward for your comments,
> 
> 
> Adrià
> 
> 
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-spatial
> [2] http://geojson.org
> 
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