Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications

2019-12-21 Thread Baumann, Peter
PS: as you estimate, Jody, the OAPI protocol is simplistic currently. In discussions I feel resistance even when including the basic WCS Core functionality, subsetting, in the OAPI Core. Effectively, we are restarting from square 1, ftp download functionality. But I hope that we will get at leas

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications

2019-12-21 Thread Baumann, Peter
Agreed, Jody, but even standards implementation is left to volunteer nightwork. The Technical Guidelines for INSPIRE Coverages contain a few pitfalls that effectively make it impossible to implement strictly along guidance, but a team of international experts over the last 1.5 years has develope

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications

2019-12-21 Thread Jody Garnett
I think my point was that there is often funding available for servers to make new standards available; but without funding libraries to make new standards accessible *to developers* these activities follow the "build it and they will come" hope of the field of dreams movie. I encourage everyone i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications

2019-12-20 Thread Alexandre Neto
Hi, It's good to know that you guys are aware of the difficulty of using INSPIRE data. Question for you: formats apart, together with improvement in the software clients, is there any plans for analysing/reviewing the actual data models? Some models seem quite complicated, and I am not sure that

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications

2019-12-20 Thread Marco Minghini
Dear all, Maria and Jochen: many thanks for your positive feedback on our work, we are happy to know that this is useful. Jody: thanks for your suggestion. Two quick comments here. First, the main purpose of the comparison was to give INSPIRE implementers an idea of which functionality is support

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications

2019-12-12 Thread Jody Garnett
Alex and Marco: For wider use of INSPIRE data please consider funding client libraries, GeoTools, OGR, etc... Adding support for the data formats, and the web services, to libraries allow integration in a wind range of applications, utilities and automation activities. -- Jody Garnett On Thu, 12

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications

2019-12-12 Thread Jochen Albrecht
This is extremely useful! Thank you, Marco. Dr. Jochen Albrecht, GISP Professor for Computational and Theoretical Geography Department of Geography and Environmental Science Hunter College, City University of New York 695 Park Avenue - HN 1030 New York, NY 10065 On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:09 AM

[OSGeo-Discuss] Improving usability of INSPIRE data in FOSS4G client applications

2019-12-12 Thread Marco Minghini
Dear all, at the European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC) we have been working with our Contractors (WeTransform and Epsilon Italia) on a set of actions aimed at improving the usability of INSPIRE data sets. For those who are not familiar with INSPIRE [1], this is the European Spatial Data