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OGC Requests Comments on Geospatial Web Processing
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The Open Geospatial Consortium sent out a press release concerning their request for public comments for the Geospatial Web Processing service specification. From the PR: "The candidate Web Processing Service interface specification provides a standardized interface that facilitates the access and publishing of geospatial processes as well as the discovery and binding to those processes by client applications. "Processes" in this context include any sort of calculation or model which operates on spatially referenced data."
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Reviews: OGC's Web Processing Service (WPS) for Use in a Client-Side GIS
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The OSGeo Journal offers a nice article named "Evaluation of the OGC Web Processing Service for Use in a Client-Side GIS" by Christopher Michael and Daniel P. Ames [pdf, 330k]. The abstract: "The Open Geospatial Consortium Web Processing
Service proposed specification is intended as a solution
for developing web-based geoprocessing plugins,
and for easily sharing algorithms and geoprocessing
functionality. This paper seeks to evaluate
the WPS proposal with respect to feasibility and potential
utility, and to identify areas for improvement.
Challenges with the WPS proposal are discussed together
with potential solutions. Several potential
enhancements to the WPS proposal are introduced
and considered, including a mechanism to guide
client applications in prompting for correct data and
a means to list the data available on a server."
Web Processing Service (WPS) Demos 1 comment
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Anonymous Voxel writes "An old (but still interesting) news from geoserver blog: Theodor Foerster, of 52North and ITC, has been leveraging GeoServer in his work on generalization of geospatial data using the new Web Processing Service specification. He recently posted some nice new work, including updates to the Web Processing Service web app, as well as a new WPS client written as a plug-in to uDig. Awhile ago he also did some prototypes of integrating the WPS with GeoServer, making the WPS a datastore that could be served out as WMS and WFS. It’s great to see new open source tools being built that can use and leverage the work we’ve done with GeoServer. You can see his work in action, with GeoServer, in the screencast that he’s also posted.
Eventually we’re hoping to be able to offer some integration between GeoServer and his WPS work, possibly as a plug-in to GeoServer that makes it really easy to install both, and to do common data configuration through our web gui. In the past we’ve also talked to the FROGS WPS community about possible integrations as well. Since we’re evolving GeoServer to be a platform it makes a lot of natural sense to be able to bring WPS in to the mix, in some form. It looks like the FROGS people are also leveraging Spring, which may help compatibility as well (we haven’t talked to them for awhile so I suppose we can just cross our fingers that they’re looking at what we’ve done). So if anyone has the time or the money to get a WPS integrated with GeoServer, let us know, as we’ve got some great pieces to work with."
Eventually we’re hoping to be able to offer some integration between GeoServer and his WPS work, possibly as a plug-in to GeoServer that makes it really easy to install both, and to do common data configuration through our web gui. In the past we’ve also talked to the FROGS WPS community about possible integrations as well. Since we’re evolving GeoServer to be a platform it makes a lot of natural sense to be able to bring WPS in to the mix, in some form. It looks like the FROGS people are also leveraging Spring, which may help compatibility as well (we haven’t talked to them for awhile so I suppose we can just cross our fingers that they’re looking at what we’ve done). So if anyone has the time or the money to get a WPS integrated with GeoServer, let us know, as we’ve got some great pieces to work with."
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