Web Map Service (WMS)

Overlying layers in IDENA

INSPIRE stipulates the use of WMS services as a means of providing access to visualising geographic information. These services use the original spatial data to dynamically produce and supply maps in the form of an image archive (normally in PNG, GIF or JPEG). It provides a representation, an image of the real world for a required area. This representation can come from a GIS data file, a digital map, an orthophotograph, a satellite image...

It is organised into one or more layers that can be viewed or hidden one by one. Certain available information can be consulted and the map image characteristics. One specification of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) establishes what a standard and interoperable WMS should be like, allowing visual overlaying of vector data, raster data, in different formats, with different Reference System and Coordinates and in different servers.

The standard defines three operations:

• Returning metadata from the service (GetCapabilities operation). Obligatory.
• Returning a map from some geographic and dimensional parameters defined (GetMap operation). Obligatory.
• Returning information on particular characteristics shown on the map (GetFeatureInfooperation). Optional.

IDENA offers access to its map service in the next URL: http://idena.navarra.es/ogc/wms.aspx.

SITNAMAP

SITNAMAP also allows you to view raster images from WMS services. This service can be accessed on the application using this icon .

Different servers can be added later by writing the address where their services are published.

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Catalogue Service (CSW)

Example of IDENA metadata

A Catalogue Service permits the publication and search for information (metadata) that describes data, services, applications and in general all types of resources. The catalogue services are necessary to provide search skills and invocation over the resources registered within an SDI.

According to OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.2 Catalogue Services are the keystone to be able to locate, administer and maintain distributed geo-sources (spatial data, applications and services). By means of using OGC service catalogues, the user can run searches on geo-sources in a standardised way. They are based on a very well defined information model that includes spatial references and topic-based description, collected in the metadata that permit the user to run searches efficiently.

• Query metadata from the service (GetCapabilities operation).
• IDENA offers access to its catalogue service in the next URL: http://idena.navarra.es/ogc/csw.

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Web Feature Service (WFS)

In the same way as the WMS services, the WFS services are defined by their corresponding specification. WFS services offer the ability to access and consult all the attributes of a geographic phenomenon (feature) such as a river, a city or a lake, represented in vector mode with geometry described by a set of coordinates.

Usually the data provided is in GML format but any other vector format can be valid.

A WFS not only allows you to view the information as in a WMS but you can also consult it freely.

• Query metadata from the service (GetCapabilities operation).
• IDENA offers access to its WFS service through the next URL: http://idena.navarra.es/ogc/wfs.

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