OneGeology

Register your OneGeology WMS Services

A step-by-step guide to the process

Introduction

To fully participate in OneGeology you will need to register your WMS services in the Portal. Your organisation will have already registered its participation with the OneGeology secretariat. You will need to fill in the short 'buddy' form.

The Complete Registration Process

1. Complete the online Register your data for the Portal forms after reading the latest 'Cookbook' to understand the different technical options available to you as a Geological Survey, so that you can choose the appropriate choice for your organisation in the Register your data for the Portal forms. The reader will ideally be the survey's web applications installer and a geoscientist who can provide the digital data to be served. .
2. Once you have completed the buddy form, please feel able to email the onegeology helpline at onegeologyhelp@bgs.ac.uk. There you can ask for any email help that you require on implementing the cookbook to set up a web service and you can ask for a userid and password to the technical discussion forum where colleagues around the world have discussed problems and proposed solutions in setting up their web services.
3. Email onegeologyhelp@bgs.ac.uk with your draft URL of your proposed WMS service. Include in this email the
1. name of the geographical area e.g. United Kingdom or France (usually the Country name, but can be a specific geographical or geological area),
2. the name of the data provider,
3. the name of the service provider
4. the WMS software you are using and the version number, e.g. MapServer (MS4W kit version 2.3.1) or ArcIMS 9.3
4. The OneGeology secretariat will check that they have written confirmation that the server provider owns the right to serve the proposed data and/or has permission from the data provider to serve that data.
5. OneGeologyHelp will check the proposed WMS according to the OneGeology naming rules [see the latest 'Cookbook']
6. Once the naming rules are accepted the OneGeologyHelp will contact BRGM (Portal) with the WMS URL.
7. BRGM will enter the service in the 'Catalogue of Registered Services' and will check any further technical points with the service provider.
8. When the service is confirmed fit for registration BRGM will email the OneGeologyHelp and the service provider
9. Your OneGeology WMS Service will now be officially registered and its layers are now visible in the Portal (e.g. in the "view layers" button). You can now add and remove other layers as you wish. As the reference information stored in the registry comes from your service directly it is highly recommended if you need to make major changes to your WMS service at any time, to modify your WMS service first and then ask the BRGM registry (email: onegeologyportal@brgm.fr) to  update the Registry.

If you have any queries please contact onegeologyhelp@bgs.ac.uk or use the discussion forum on the website.

Service provider: the organisation that will supply WMS' of their own and/or other Survey's data access to the Internet /portal

Data Provider: the official owner of the data being served as a WMS

WMS service: spatially referenced map data information in Web Map Service form i.e. as a picture not as actual raw data

Catalogue of registered services: list of WMS services registered in the OneGeology portal

Portal: a single point of access to many different sources of information

OneGeology secretariat: a central team (currently based at BGS, UK) that coordinates the organisation and progress of OneGeology. They will deal with and forward if necessary any queries or requests to the relevant people.

Discussion forum: a web based application for holding discussions displayed in either chronological order or as threaded discussions. Read/write Password is required from the OneGeology secretariat.

Register your data for the Portal forms: online forms to help us organise getting everyone's data onto the web. We need to establish who would like assistance to serve their data to the portal and who is able to provide assistance. A Buddy is someone willing to serve a neighbour's data i.e. a service provider.