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WMS, Portals and WSS. Nordic Forum for Geostatistics 2008 Thursday 2 October Johan Stålnacke, Statistics Sweden. Agenda. Background Differences 2007 – 2008 Demands on web GIS Solution for the future. Planning portal - summary.
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WMS, Portals and WSS Nordic Forum for Geostatistics 2008 Thursday 2 October Johan Stålnacke, Statistics Sweden
Agenda Background Differences 2007 – 2008 Demands on web GIS Solution for the future
Planning portal - summary • The Planning Portal aims to provide a web service to support physical planning, infrastructure planning and planning decisions relating to the location of buildings and establishments. • It will allow companies, local, regional and national authorities, organizations and the general public to search for, look at and download all geographic information that, in principle, is needed for planning.
WMS - Web Map Service The OGC Standard defines three operations of a WMS: • return service-level metadata • return a map with well-defined geographic and dimensional parameters • return information about particular features shown on a map
What is Map Server? • Application Development System for Web-Based Mapping • Server-Based • Open Source • Supports OGC Web Services Specifications • Fast • Extremely Configurable • Easy-To-Use • 10+ Active Developers Around The World • 2,100+ Subscribers to MapServer-Users List • 40,000+ Global Applications Deployed
Status 2007 vs 2008 Open source WMS as an alternative • MapServer • Planning portal
Difficulties 2007 – Map Server • Knowledge gathering • Support • Client specific parmeters
Conclusion 2007 – Map Server Is Open Source really an alernative ? Demanding Rewarding It is free and it works! Up to this point: yes!
Status 2007 vs 2008 – Planning portal • Planning portal autumn 2007 • Version 0.1 • Planning portal autumn 2008 • Version 1.0 Beta, release 15 october
Hierarchy of portals Inspire Geo portal Planning portal
Existing and future demands Inspire ? Organization Customers
Demands - Inspire Content and structure Our portal work is a investment towards an implementation of inspire
Demands - Organisation Existing web-gis solution Person dependent Technically limited Portal work (Mapserver WMS) Person dependent
Demands - Customers Existing web-gis solutions technically limited Analysis tools Tables Diagrams Webb Statistical Service
Where we’re going Future web-gis solution Standardized Easy to administrate Technically more advanced than WMS
Towards a Web Statistical Service Good examples Evaluation project