This page will gather return of experience of Interoperability Experiments involving Met Ocean data

__Whenever you test the interoperability between WMS clients and servers involving Met Ocean data , please report here your observations. ·

If relevant you could for instance mention :

• Date /hour of testings /Author
• Client
• Serveur
• Issues considered for MO Profile

1. Get capabilities
2. Times
3. CRS
4. Projections validated
5. Get Feature info
6. .... * Response time

• Tested Data (NWP, Satellite, radar, Climatological data…)

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A synthesis will be made at the Bonn OGC/TC 28 February - 3 March 2011

1- Return of Experience from EGOWS WMS Interoperability Experiment

During this workshop (01-04 june 2010) at ECMWF a session of 2 or 3 hours was dedicated to connect various clients and servers for an interoperability test . No specific use case was provided. 5 clients and 8 WMS servers were involved into the testings

2-Geomatys demonstration of Puzzle-GIS with the UK Met Office ncWMS server

As part of an interoperability demonstration of the French Forum of the OGC, Geomatys tested the "general purpose client" Puzzle-GIS against several WMS servers. These servers were:

Provider	Server	URL	Status
Geoconcept	Geoweb	Service Metadata Document
ITT	ArcGIS	Service Metadata Document	Now Broken
Oslandia	MapServer	Service Metadata Document
Autodesk	MapGuide	Service Metadata Document	Now Broken
Erdas	Apollo	Service Metadata Document
ESRI	ArcGis	Service Metadata Document	Now Broken
Geomatys	Constellation-SDI	Service Metadata Document
StarApic	Elix	Service Metadata Document	Now Broken
UK MetOffice	ncWMS	Service Metadata Document

the last of which is an ncWMS hosted by the UK met office.

The video of the test only shows part of the exercise, unfortunately not that of interacting with the ncWMS server. The only layer of the ncWMS that we found with significant amount of data was the ostia/analysed_sst layer with global sea surface temperature.

-- AdrianCuster - 10 Jan 2011

3- First ECMWF-Météo-France Interoperability Experiment feedback by Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Météo-France

The experiment held on November 12th involved the Wrep WMS server from ECMWF, the Synopsis WMS server from Meteo-France into the Synopsis WMS client from Meteo-France. The same set of data was visualised into the classical Synergie system from Meteo-France as a reference to check the relevance of the WMS request and answer in term a Time and the georeferencement of the visualisations : Everything worked fine except that at the moment, the projections available into the WMS systems tested are very restricted. The time response was very good.

4- Testings of Meteo-France client with Ucar GFS WMS server

The experiment was held on January 14th 2011. Main difficulty is to handle a URL that changes with the date. For all servers, we would like to have a very efficient way to get the correspondance between the numerical value and the physical value. Several styles are available but there is no way to know the default style.

5- Testings of Metview client with ECMWF ecCharts WMS server

The experiment was held in January 2011. No difficulty.

6- Testings of Metview client with University of Reading's USGS server

The experiment was held in January 2011. No difficulty.

6- Testings of Metview client with KNMI WMS server

The experiment was held in January 2011. The servers worked well and we had no major problem.

Minor issue is name of the layers which contain much information (eg RADNL_OPER_R___25PCPRR_L3_KNMI) and contain layer information such a time (SCIA_R_TMTNO2_L3_200503_TMTNO2).

7- https://external.ogc.org/twiki_public/pub/MetOceanDWG/MetocWMS_WMS_IE_Retex/MF_clientKNMI_server.ppt

For all servers, we would like to have a description of the layers available or explicit names

8- Testings of Meteo-France client with ECMWF WMS server

Sometims the catalogue building is a little bit slow.

9-https://external.ogc.org/twiki_public/pub/MetOceanDWG/MetocWMS_WMS_IE_Retex/MF_clientNOAA_server.ppt

Problems found in January when the name of the layer encompassed several words. This was not compliant to the standard and has been corrected by NWS beginning of February. No more tests done since then.

10-https://external.ogc.org/twiki_public/pub/MetOceanDWG/MetocWMS_WMS_IE_Retex/MF_ClientIBL_server.ppt

No Problem except some time out from times to time but we couldn't investigate where they come from

11-https://external.ogc.org/twiki_public/pub/MetOceanDWG/MetocWMS_WMS_IE_Retex/MF_on_DWD_Clim_21022011.ppt

No Problem except some time out from times to time but we couldn't investigate where they come from.

12- Return of experience of Interoperability testings made by the EGOWS community - 9 June 2011

-- StephanSiemen - 31 Jan 2011