Discussions/Solutions related to supporting the INSPIRE specifications in MapServer

Introduction

There is a need for MapServer to support the INSPIRE specifications. Several discussions have already happened through mailing list and trac bugs. The goal of this page is to organize these discussions and come up with solutions that that will allow to support the specification

References

Tickets:

• ticket:1632 : support for named group layers using wms_layer_group
• ticket:3608 : INSPIRE related suport

Mailing list and reference documents:

• ​http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Network_Services/Technical_Guidance_View_Services_v2.12.pdf
• This ​http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/INSPIRE-compliancy-A-request-for-comments-on-a-possible-RFC-td5661761.html#a5661761
• ​http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/file/n5661761/MS_RFC_INSPIRE.pdf

Getcapabilities document

1. Links to documents extracted from the reference document

• Schema ​http://www3.dmsolutions.ca/tmp/inspire.xsd
• Get Capabilities ​http://www3.dmsolutions.ca/tmp/get_capabilities.xml

2. Tasks

• add a link to the inspire schema as part of the overall schema list
• generate an ExtendedCapabilities
• include all elements by reading inspire type metadata
• all other metadata outside that extended capabilities should already be part of the regular wms output

Presentation of layers in a GetCapabilities document

1. Ability to use grouped layers

• see details in ticket:1632

Mandatory metadata the need to be supported

Multi-Language support

Grouped layers and DescribeLayer request

Grouped layers and GetMap request

Grouped layers and SLD

Grouped layers and GetFeatureInfo request