Synthesis of the Met Questionnaire on WMS date : 18 September 2009

• 1 from an international organisation (EUMETSAT)
• 6 from National Meteorological Services (BoM, DWD, Met Office, FMI, KNMI, Météo-France, )
• 2 from Regional Meteorological services (Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya (SMC), MeteoGalicia)
• 4 from National Environment Agencies or data centres
• 1 from university department
• 1 from private company

• All of them use OGC standards (mainly since 2006-2008); 10 are already using them operationally; 4 plan to do it soon.

• They mainly use WMS 1.1.1 standard : 8 use WMS 1.3.0 as well.

• Software : 8 MapServer; 5 GeoServer; 2 ARC IMS; 1 IBL VisWx; 1 in house Météo-France Framework; 4 ncWMS; 1 THREDDS (with WMS enabled); 1 Luciad 6 at least on Linux platforms (RHEL, CENTOS or Ubuntu)

• 11 OpenLayers; 7 Google Earth;4 Godiva2; 2 MapServer; 2 GeoServer; 2 ArcMap; 2 IDV; and one mention each of: ArcGIS Desktop; ArcGIS Explorer; Custom; Adobe Flex; Ninjo; SmartMet II; Synergie; In house built HTML/Javascript; NASA World Wind; UDIG; OpenJump; MapInfo, QGis, NetCDF tools; Community MapBuilder, GeoExt, Nasa World Wind; Gaia

• 6 Yes :
  • http://pubmap.on.ec.gc.ca/ec-ows/ec-ows_en.asp
  • http://map.ns.ec.gc.ca/reseau/en
  • http://adaguc.knmi.nl
  • http://ncof.npm.ac.uk/ncWMS & http://www.npm.ac.uk/rsg/projects/interrisk (Direct WMS urls subject to change (email for current URLs))
  • http://limia.meteogalicia.es/thredds/catalog.html
  • http://www.meteogalicia.es/galego/prediccion/vagacalor/mapa.asp
• 3 Restricted
  • http://vgisc.dwd.de/geoserver/wms
• 6 No at the moment

• A large variety of data air, climate, biodiversity, water,: satellite, numerical model, radar, lightning, Meteograms, soundings, wave models, coastlines, vectorial data, geotiff, netCDF data...

• 12 EPSG:4326 (WGS84, lat/long)
• 2 EPSG:54004 (? not registered)
• 2 EPSG:900913 (? not registered)
• 3 EPSG:3395 (WGS84, World Mercator)
• 2 EPSG:32661 (WGS84, UPS, Polar Stereographic, north)
• 2 EPSG:32761 (WGS84, UPS, Polar Stereographic, south)
• 1 UTM EPSG:32{6-7}[01-60]
• 1 EPSG:23029
• 2 would like orthographic
• 1 EPSG:31467 (Gauss-Kruger zone 3)
• 1 parametric CRS
• PROJ4: definitions
• British National Grid (Transverse Mercator)
• D48/GK and D96/TM
• Would like all supported by GeoTools
• One mention each of:
• EPSG: Projected CRS: 3111, 3112, 3308, 28348-28358, 28992.
• EPSG: Geodetic Datums 4202, 4283.
• EPSG: Methods 9804, 9805.
• EPSG: not registered 3785, 23031, 42304, 102171.
• 1 mentioned EPSG:32601-32660 and 32701-32760 (WGS84, UTM, north & south)
• 1 mentioned eventuelly all projection their server will reproject to

• 12 Time
• 5 Bounding Box, Anti-Meridian, poles and Southern Hemisphere
• 4 Metadata, search and filtering
• 4 Performance
• 3 Asynchronous and dynamic delivery
• 5 Vertical coordinates
• 2 Security
• 2 Integration with other systems, such as WCS, GRIB, OpenDap
• 3 Styling
• 1 Cross section description
• 1 Projections

• 12 Yes
• 1 Have to check
• 1 Later (2010)
• 1 No

• 4 expertise
• 3 limited resources, internet facing WMS / WCS / WFS server with limited dataset a possibility (after security considerations)
• 6 limited staff effort
• 1 to be negociated (Data policy, access issues, staff resources)
• Adaguc web-portal; source code can be made available on request
• ncWMS software and test server
• test environment with a large amount of data
• operational data (models outputs, lightning, met-ocean observations...)

• The Adaguc website/web services are freely available. KNMI would however appreciate to be warned if someone wants to engage in large scale performance testing!

• See the Questionnaire...