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
- Complete the online 'buddy' form 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 buddy form. The reader will ideally be the survey’s web applications installer and a geoscientist who can provide the digital data to be served. .
- Once you have completed the 'buddy' form, you will be allocated a password; this will allow you to use the discussion forum to place queries about setting up WMS' and receive answers from the OneGeology technical community. This password will also be used in the future for editing your OneGeology registered services in the Portal. At this stage you will either use the cookbook and provided Mapserver software to set up a draft WMS service, or used your own WMS software to do this, or provided another perhaps neighbouring Geological Survey with your data if they have agreed to serve the WMS of your data for you - as a 'buddy'.
- Email onegeology@bgs.ac.uk with your draft URL of your proposed WMS service. Include in this email the
- name of the geographical area e.g. United Kingdom or France (usually the Country name, but can be a specific geographical or geological area),
- the name of the data provider,
- the name of the service provider
- 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.
- The secretariat will check the proposed WMS according to the OneGeology naming rules [see the latest 'Cookbook']
- Once the naming rules are accepted the secretariat will contact BRGM (Portal) with the WMS URL.
- BRGM will enter the service in the 'Catalogue of Registered Services' and will check any technical points with the service provider.
- When the service is fit for registration BRGM will email the OneGeology secretariat and the service provider and enable the password for use within the Portal. Service providers will then be able to use the 'Edit your Registered Service' button on the Portal to make any final tunings or layer changes.
Your OneGeology WMS Service will now be officially registered and its layers are now visible in the Portal (e.g. in the "add 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, to modify your WMS service first and then ask the BRGM registry (email: onegeologyportal@brgm.fr) to be updated. This 'Edit your Registered Service' option is currently offered only to simplify minor updates after you have already had your service registered by the BRGM portal managers.
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.
Buddy form: an online form 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.
