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WMS, Portals and WSS

This presentation discusses the differences in demands on a web GIS solution for planning in 2007 and 2008. It explores the use of WMS (Web Map Service) and Map Server as alternatives, and showcases the development of a Planning Portal as a solution. The presentation also highlights the challenges faced in 2007 and the progress made in 2008, along with future developments towards a Web Statistical Service.

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WMS, Portals and WSS

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  1. WMS, Portals and WSS Nordic Forum for Geostatistics 2008 Thursday 2 October Johan Stålnacke, Statistics Sweden

  2. Agenda Background Differences 2007 – 2008 Demands on web GIS Solution for the future

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Status 2007 vs 2008 Open source WMS as an alternative • MapServer • Planning portal

  7. Difficulties 2007 – Map Server • Knowledge gathering • Support • Client specific parmeters

  8. Conclusion 2007 – Map Server Is Open Source really an alernative ? Demanding Rewarding It is free and it works! Up to this point: yes!

  9. Status 2007 vs 2008 – Planning portal • Planning portal autumn 2007 • Version 0.1 • Planning portal autumn 2008 • Version 1.0 Beta, release 15 october

  10. Status 2007 vs 2008 – Planning portal

  11. Hierarchy of portals Inspire Geo portal Planning portal

  12. Existing and future demands Inspire ? Organization Customers

  13. Demands - Inspire Content and structure Our portal work is a investment towards an implementation of inspire

  14. Demands - Organisation Existing web-gis solution Person dependent Technically limited Portal work (Mapserver WMS) Person dependent

  15. Demands - Customers Existing web-gis solutions technically limited Analysis tools Tables Diagrams Webb Statistical Service

  16. Web Statistical Service

  17. Where we’re going Future web-gis solution Standardized Easy to administrate Technically more advanced than WMS

  18. Towards a Web Statistical Service Good examples Evaluation project

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