WebMap Composer Online

Current WMC Release

[http://wmc.socialchange.net.au]

Please note: this service is temporarily unavailable

The current WMC off-the-shelf release, with some additional sample applications configured.

CANRI


Community Access to Natural Resource Information, NSW Australia

http://www.canri.nsw.gov.au

CANRI  is one the world's first Spatial Data Infrastructures, facilitating the sharing and conjoint visualisation of data between NSW (Australia) government departments and also external organisations. Although CANRI is a framework that can use any technologies, CANRI helped identify the need for the WebMap Composer middleware and The WMC 1.0 web client is now being adopted as a standard user interface for many of the applications.

CANRI data suppliers include:
Australian Museum  -  Dept of Information Technology & Management  -   Dept of Sustainable Natural Resources (ex DLWC)  -   Dept of Mineral Resources  -   Dept of Urban Affairs & Planning  -   Environment Protection Authority  -   National Parks & Wildlife Service  -   NSW Agriculture  -   NSW Fisheries  -   Royal Botanic Gardens  -   State Forests of NSW  -   and many more

New!

http://test.nratlas.canri.nsw.gov.au

This is a preview release of work undertaken by SCO to upgrade the NSW Natural Resource Atlas (see below) and underlying CANRI catalogue. The entire application was built using WebMap Composer 1.5. WMC 1.5 will be available in early 2004.

NSW Natural Resource Atlas

http://atlas.canri.nsw.gov.au

The CANRI NSW Natural Resource Atlas (NRA) is a WebMap Composer 1.0.2 implementation. The NRA provides a single point of access to CANRI distributed spatial data sets. Other than custom CANRI Catalog support and configuration by CANRI, this is an off-the-shelf WebMap Composer deployment.

CANRI WFS Pilot

River Health

[http://wfspilot.socialchange.net.au]

Please note: this service is temporarily unavailable

The CANRI WFS (Web Feature Service) pilot shows water quality monitoring site locations and allows a user to investigate water quality data at each site. The site shows report chaining / data service invocation from a selected site on the map.

The demonstration is believed to have been the first public demonstration of a functional WFS 1.0 client - ours! It accesses both SCO's WFS Observations Server and ESRI's beta WFS connector for ArcIMS. The Web Feature Server(s) deliver raw vector data as GML from a database to the WMC middleware. The WMC middleware reprojects and renders the point data over base map layers served by a Web Map Server.

NSW Wildlife Atlas

A CANRI node

http://wildlifeatlas.npws.nsw.gov.au

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service

The atlas serves thematic maps of species sightings, using gridded aggregation techniques, ie where there are more sightings, it shows bigger dots. This is accomplished using an observations profile on an OpenGIS Web Feature Service (SCO's WFS-Lite) and rendering the aggregated sightings on a base map through the WebMap Composer middleware. The taxonomy browser is reusable. NB. This site uses a slow base map service from DLWC.

Plan Connect -
Planning NSW

A CANRI node

Document Cross Linking

http://planconnect.nsw.gov.au

Plan Connect searches for information about the planning conditions that may apply to a parcel of land in New South Wales. You can search for your property and obtain the relevant documents, such as Local or Regional Environmental Plans, that set out the planning conditions that relate to your land. Conversely, the extent of planning instruments can be shown on the map. 

The cross linking of documents and related spatial data is accomplished via OpenGIS Gazetteer Services (a profile on the Web Feature Service). A gazetteer is a list of place names and their map location. WebMap Composer middleware orchestrates the queries. Note that this service will shortly feature an alternate interface using a third-party Java applet and data server, fully integrated into the application architecture, to portray vector data live in the web client, served through the WMC middleware.

Nature Conservation Council of NSW

Document Linking

Community Data Management

http://nccnsw.org.au/mapping

The NCC site uses maps as an index to find spatially located environmental information. It also enables the upload of community generated data and map files.

WebMap Composer 1.0 and the CANRI spatial data infrastructure are used to combine community collected and owned data with available government data, into readily useable and accessible online mapping tools for conservation purposes.

Australian Antarctic Division

Searchable Atlas

[http://gazpilot.socialchange.net.au]

Please note: this service is temporarily unavailable

This demonstration is not visually spectacular, however is included as an example of how the WebMap Composer web client is readily customised. In this case, a custom tool for searching a gazetteer database (the Antarctic Gazetteer) by place name and/or feature type was quickly added to the user interface. The search tool is reusable in other applications. The Gazetteer and Thesaurus (taxonomy of feature types) were implemented as Web Feature Service (WFS) profiles using our WFS implementation.