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Sample URL does not work #14

Closed monty241 closed 6 years ago

monty241 commented 7 years ago

On http://pdok-ngr.readthedocs.io/services.html it reads:

... haalt deze als volgt op:

http://geo.data.nl/ogc-service? service=WMS/WFS/WMTS/WCS request=GetCapabilities

This URL does not resolve.

A nslookup on geo.data.nl times out, as well as data.nl. Overheid.nl, nu.nl, etc. resolve. The URL http://geodata.nationaalgeoregister.nl/ahn2/wms?service=wms&request=getmap&layers=ahn2_5m&bbox=13014,306243,286599,623492&width=400&height=500&format=image/png&srs=EPSG:28992 also works fine.

ndkv commented 7 years ago

Hi, thanks for submitting an issue!

That is indeed a fake URL meant to demonstrate that each service type supports the GetCapabilities request.

Do you think it is better to use a real URL?

monty241 commented 7 years ago

Hi, you are welcome.

As an end-user I would either expect a clear note that it is a fake URL, such as either in plain written text a note like "Replace 'geo.data.nl' by xyz which you determine like this..." or a place holder such as "HOSTNAME" instead of geo.data.nl which seems legit but refers to a non-responding/non-resolvable host.

Many platforms offer something like pre-cooked curl statement, swagger or Postman queries, which help to fast understand and analyze the capabilities. For your info, we need raw access to metadata and data because we like to hook the sources up to our SQL engine to allow queries such as:

select ads.addressline, geo.photo from addresses@mydatabase ads join lookupphoto(ads.addressline, ads.city, ads.postalcode) on 1=1 where ads.city like 'Roermond%'