Hi,
In november 2012 EU dataproviders need to make the so called "INSPIRE
Download Services" [1] available. In practice this will be WFS 2.0
serving GML 3.2.1 data as specified by the ISO GML Application Schemas
in the INSPIRE Data Specifications ("Annexes") [2]. The effort to comply
with this will be considerably larger than with "INSPIRE View Services"
which was mainly supplying WMS 1.3 with some INSPIRE-specific Metadata
in GetCapabilties. I am aware of the GeoServer INSPIRE WMS plugin, in
fact we use the plugin in the Dutch national SDI project PDOK [3].
The main effort for supplying an "INSPIRE WFS" lies in the fact that
local national data needs to be transformed and served as INSPIRE GML.
Where/how transformation is performed is up to implementors: offline,
e.g. via an ETL process, or "on-the-fly" during WFS request processing.
Practical experience from the past 2 years in e.g. www.esdin.eu favoured
offline ETL or combined methods. Through the INSPIRE FOSS project [4] we
try to make FOSS components for INSPIRE available for ETL, services and
validation/testing. Some documetation can be found here [5].
Ok, back to my question: I have heard about work being done on GeoServer
(by IGN France?) for INSPIRE WFS, but cannot find further info.
Specifically I would like to know the architectural direction that is
taken, for example w.r.t. transformation/ETL. e.g. is the GS/GT Complex
Feature Store used as is and is the extension mainly WFS 2.0 and GML
3.2.1 support ? i.e. is each provider responsible for creating specific
("on-the-fly") mappings ? Or is a reusable "INSPIRE DB Schema" foreseen
? Thanks for any info/pointers.
[1] http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/5
[2] http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7
[3] http://www.pdok.nl
[4] http://inspire-foss.org
[5] http://inspire.kademo.nl/doc
Best,
--Just van den Broecke
The Netherlands
www.justobjects.nl
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