deegree services test

[stefano parodi]

I've done some compatibility tests between the deegree WMS/WFS services and various GIS clients.

The clients tested were:

Geomedia Professional (6.1)

QGis (1.6.0)

Tatukgis Viewer (2.10)

uDIG (1.2.0)

OpenJUMP (1.4.0.3)

Gaia (3.4)

ArcGIS Explorer

The services tested were:

WMS getCapabilites

WMS getMap

WFS getCapabilities

WFS describeFeatureType

WFS query

I've then made a summary that you can find at this link:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApcTyzRqNXUZdFRiQmJDODdsZkRWcXRzaEFCRWFQeVE&hl=it

(the document is public and editable, if you want to add or change something, you're free to do it).

The WMS tests went quite well apart from 2 clients (QGis and Gaia) that make the GetMap request using the wrong axis order in the BBOX parameter (y,x instead than x,y) and ArcGIS Explorer that doesn't send any GetMap request to the server (I couldn't find where it sends the requests), by the way I've had already noticed this behaviour when I made some tests for the Mapserver WMS services implemented for the Regional Authorithy). 

On the other hand the WFS tests showed various problems.

The problems here lie mainly in the GML version: almost every GetCapabilities or DescribeFeatureType request rises this exception

"This WFS is not configured to handle the output/input format 'text/xml; subtype=gml/3.1.1'".

(this is though understandable since the WFS 1.1.0 support GML 3.1.1)

 

The client that performed better in the WFS test was Gaia, that let the user choose the GML version and have an "3_2" format option that fits well with deegree, so it went well in all the requests but unfortunately failed in the last Query request: here the problem lies in the <ogc:PropertyName> element of the BBOX filter, which GAIA sets to the string "LinearRing", instead of the expected full xml path "ps:ProtectedSite/ps:geometry/gml:LinearRing" (or the more generic "ps:ProtectedSite/ps:geometry/*").

Finally I've tried to open the GML 3.2.1 file but almost all the clients failed to read it properly. 

The only client that showed the GML on the map was TatukGIS but it was not able to show the attributes (only the gml_id). 

I hope this brief client survey can be useful!  

Best regards.

Stefano.