Making W*S suck less « tommy's scratchpad

Making W*S suck less

19 Sep, 2008 geospatial, open source, technology, web

I’m starting to work on contributing SOS and OWS Common support in OWSLib, a groovy and regimented little GIS Python project.

So far so good; some initial implementations are done (committing soon hopefully, writing tests around these). I think this will add value to the project, seeing that SOS 1.0 has been around long enough to start seeing implementations. And the OWS Common support will act as a baseline for all calling specs/code to leverage.

And it’s been a nice journey in Python for me so far. Another thing I like about this project is the commitment to testing — awesome!

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Sean Gillies said,

Wrote on September 19, 2008 @ 11:02:42

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And we’re grateful for the contributions, Tom! My opinions about the protocols aside: W*S is out there, enterprises like yours are dependent on it, and there should be excellent Python tools to make a programmer’s W*S experience as good as possible. It’s a pragmatic project.

I hope you’re liking doctests 🙂
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Derek said,

Wrote on February 15, 2010 @ 05:43:22

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Tommy

Can you point me to the SOS code (as opposed to the WFS/WMS code) for OWSLib?
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tomkralidis said,

Wrote on February 15, 2010 @ 15:47:02

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@Derek: in trunk at http://trac.gispython.org/lab/browser/OWSLib/trunk/owslib/sos.py.

At this point, the implementation is partial at best, with Capabilities XML parsing. DescribeSensor and GetObservation support needs to be implemented, as well as doctests for all SOS support. Tests/patches welcome!
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