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

Status 2007 vs 2008 – Planning portal

Hierarchy of portals

Planning portal

Geo portal

Inspire

Existing and future demands

Inspire

Customers Organization

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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

Web 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