epos-eu / EPOS-DCAT-AP

DCAT-AP extension for the EPOS solid Earth sciences community
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define wms content by getCapabilities response #480

Open kaestli opened 5 years ago

kaestli commented 5 years ago

Rather than defining the web service to retrieve different layers (wms request=getMap), I'd suggest to provide / expect metadata describing the request=getCapabilities service; that service does not only provide the list of layers available, but also extended metadata on these layers (e.g. layer-specific projection lists, abstracts etc.) Further, the layer list would be dynamic, not requiring the change of dcat metadata if layers are added/removed. (improvement, actually not of the dcat definition but of the way how it is used, and of the depending applications)