Hi all, just wanted to update you on this and the mapserver INSPIRE work in general.
The latest version of the 'Technical Guidance to implement INSPIRE View Services' has been out for a while. whether its the final doc or not I can't say, but they have at least focused in on which attributes and service calls should support multilingualism. The document now says that the metadata elements 'title', 'abstract' and 'description' are mandatory to be translated if other languages are offered and that multilingual service level error messages and multilingual getfeature and getmap operations are optional. To implement the optional elements, the document suggests replacing the operation-online-resources in each language specific GetCapabilities-Response by a specific operation-online-resource for that language. I presume this is so the getmap and getfeatureinfo specifications don't have to be extended with the 'language' parameter in requests. Because only titles, abstracts and descriptions are mandatory to be translated if multiple languages are supported, I'm guessing (loosely) that we could implement any one of a number of solutions to solve this. However, multilingualism seems to be something that a greater number of the community is interested in so perhaps a slightly more overreaching, permanent solution should be found, one that deals with 3 areas of multilingualism; Back end data translation, service and dataset metadata translation and service operation translation. Theres now a trac on the developer list looking at INSPIRE support for Mapserver: http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3608 so I'll add a link there to this discussion and hopefully the developers will have they're say. Cheers Tom -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/mapserver-and-i18n-tp5607348p5747491.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users