[ckan-dev] default beaviour of WMS viewer

[Armin Retterath]

Hi Elena,

what version of ckan do you use? The catalogue that you harvest, is it a
ckan instance or a csw source?

Regards

Armin


2013/12/17 Elena Camossi <elena.camossi at ext.jrc.ec.europa.eu>

> Hi Alex,
>
> thanks for replying.
>
> I'm not sure to understand correctly your answer, or most likely I didn't
> put my question clear enough.
> My institution harvests the datasets from another catalogue that publishes
> these layers with GeoServer, but I don't have any authorization to
> re-organize the layers server side. I'm just trying, client side, after
> harvesting, to clean up the metadata in my catalogue to visualize the
> layers.
> I'm trying to use and customize a little bit the WMS view, for what is
> possible to arrange from the CKAN front end (without developing any code),
> and I was wondering if it's possible to pass the request from CKAN in a
> different way, in order to point directly to a specific layer, or if there
> is some customization that I don't know for the WMS viewer.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> -Elena
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ckan-dev [mailto:ckan-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of
> Alex
> > (Maxious) Sadleir
> > Sent: martedì 17 dicembre 2013 11:12
> > To: CKAN Development Discussions
> > Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] default beaviour of WMS viewer
> >
> > In GeoServer you can put layers in separate workspaces and each workspace
> > has it's own WMS link that only contains layers from that workspace.
> > So one way to handle this is create a workspace for each dataset and a
> layer
> > for each data file (if more than one) eg.
> > http://data.gov.au/geoserver/geelong-roofprints-kml/wms accesses all
> > (one) files from http://data.gov.au/dataset/geelong-roofprints-kml
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Elena Camossi
> > <elena.camossi at ext.jrc.ec.europa.eu> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to visualize in CKAN a dataset that contains several layers
> > > in OpenLayers created with GeoServer using the WMS viewer.
> > > The layers have been harvested as different datasets, each one is
> > > correctly uploaded as WMS in CKAN, but since they point to the same
> > > GetCapabilities request, when I open any of them I see always the same
> > > layer in the preview (the first the in the GetCapabilities).
> > >
> > > That would not be that bad, because in theory you can choose
> > > interactively the layers to visualize and even overlay different
> > > layers... Unfortunately the list of available layers is truncated to
> > > the first 14 layers (but there are many others that I cannot see).
> > >
> > > I have tried putting the GetMap request (pointing to the specific
> > > layer) instead of the GetCapabilities in the dataset URL, but the
> > > viewer doesn't work, the page remains empty with a Loading... message
> > > (I don't get any error in the log, and the Development Console of the
> > > broswer says HTTP 200 OK).
> > > Anyway, this would not be a good solution in the end because you lose
> > > the overlay functionality...
> > > As last chance, I manage to visualize the image of the layer modifying
> > > its format as a PNG, or GIF, but in this way you loose completely any
> > > geospatial functionality.
> > >
> > > Is there any way to change the default behaviour of the viewer,
> > > showing a different layer instead of the first one listed in the
> > > GetCapability? Or to configure differently the viewer to show the layer
> > using the GetMap request?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > -Elena
> > >
> > >
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