Geospatial Portal User Guide

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1 Geospatial Portal User Guide December 2013

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5 Contents Introduction... 7 Key Features... 7 Client Requirements for 3D View... 9 Functionality Limitation for 3D Mode Getting Started with Geospatial Portal Geospatial Portal User Interface Working with Geospatial Portal Working with the Map Window Changing to 3D/2D Map View Navigating the Map Changing the Scale Performing Measurements on the Map Selecting Data on the Map Obtaining Information About Features Using the Overview Window Managing Data Sources Registering New Data Source Connecting to the WMS Service - Sample Workflow Connecting to myvr 3D Data Reviewing Registered Services Displaying Data from Registered Services Creating a Personal Storage Service (PSS) Consuming ERDAS APOLLO Essentials Imagery Data Manipulating the Legend Changing the Layer Display Style Setting the Display Format Layer Filtering Creating the Thematic Legend Setting Map Scale Bands Searching for Geographic Names Searching Geographic Names Using Search in the Sidebar Searching Geographic Names Using Live Search Searching for Data or Metadata Performing Analyses on Vector Data Defining and Executing Analyses Downloading Analyses Results Updating Analyses Working with ERDAS APOLLO Features Browsing ERDAS APOLLO Catalog Performing Clip-Zip-Ship Process Searching ERDAS APOLLO Catalog Geoprocessing Working with Search Result Panel Handling DTM Layers from ERDAS APOLLO Creating and Saving User Maps and Workspaces User Maps and Workspace Functions and Commands: Geospatial Portal User Guide 5

6 Contents Printing Maps in Geospatial Portal Using Local Print Service Using Portal Print Service Using External Print Service Limitations on the Printing Functionality Working with the Data Window and the Clipboard Showing Client Location Sharing a Map Displaying Vector Data on the Map Dynamically Importing and Exporting Web Map Context (WMC) Viewing Notification History Working with the WMS Time Parameter Editing Features Geometry Adding a Feature to the Feature Class Editing Geometry Continuing Geometry Moving Geometry Removing Part of the Geometry Inserting Text Removing Selected Features from the Database Using the Snap Functionality Working with Markers and Annotation Layers User Registration and Login Using the Quality Monitor Feature Obtaining Help and Information About Geospatial Portal Changing Geospatial Portal Settings Changing the Coordinate System Setting Items Displayed in the Map Window Customizing the View in the Browser Window Changing the Language Working with Geospatial Portal on a Mobile Devices List of Supported Operating Systems for Mobile Devices Running Geospatial Portal on Mobile Devices Using Geospatial Portal on Mobile Devices Navigating the Map Changing the Scale Where Am I? Feature Info Changing the Maps Technical Support and Information Self-Help Support Tools Phone Numbers Other Links Index Geospatial Portal User Guide

7 S E C T I O N 1 Introduction Geospatial Portal from Intergraph is a Web application that acts as a client for spatial data infrastructure (SDI) services. It is installed and configured on a Web application server so multiple users can access the site using Web browsers. It is used to find, view, and query geospatial data published with standard SDI Web services and to integrate multiple sources into a single map view that can be easily navigated. Geospatial Portal simplifies the process of finding, connecting to, and displaying spatial data published through Web services. It ensures smooth browsing through intuitive navigation controls and technical advances such as asynchronous communication, which ensures that panning and zooming are not interrupted by having to wait for servers to respond. The client s utility is enhanced by additional tools such as measuring area and distance, controlling the appearance of individual map layers, and saving and recalling the current map context. Geospatial Portal supports all the Web services and open standards that a modern SDI client requires. This document describes the functionality of Geospatial Portal used in everyday work and includes necessary procedures, concepts, and technical information. Key Features The following are key features of Geospatial Portal: View maps from WMS services and View maps from WMTS service Simultaneously display maps from different services, including the transparency adjustment for a single layer. Print map. Retrieve information from the catalog services (CSW ISO AP 1.0). Query for services. Query for datasets and dataset series (compliant with INSPIRE requirements). Search for geographic names using the Gazetteer Service (WFSG). Display content of GeoRSS feeds. Provide intuitive mouse control for simple map navigation and better user experience. Perform queries against WFS services working both with WFS 1.1 and WFS 2.0 (ISO 19142). In addition to ISO 19142, ISO for filter encoding is also supported. Use WCTS and INSPIRE WPS-CT for online coordinate transformation. Create and Edit Personal Storage Service. Measure distances and areas with measuring functions within the map. Geospatial Portal User Guide 7

8 Introduction Save and restore current map context (OGC WMC). Show overview window. Monitor connected services with Quality Monitor Service. Process data from ERDAS APOLLO Catalog with Geoprocessing and Clip-Zip-Ship functionality. Search and browse data (rasters, vectors, services) in ERDAS APOLLO Catalog. Provides 2D and 3D map control supporting the display of a base map and rendering other supported data sources properly. Multilingual. 8 Geospatial Portal User Guide

9 Introduction Client Requirements for 3D View In addition to 2D viewing capabilities, Geospatial Portal provides a 3D globe that supports the display of a basemap and renders other supported data sources properly. In order to display 3D data in Geospatial Portal, the myvr plug-in has to be installed on the client machine. The myvr plug-in also allows you to consume myvr 3D Map Tiles and 3D Objects within Geospatial Portal. To download the plug-in, use the link provided on the Geospatial Portal Welcome Page or contact your Geospatial Portal administrator. You should restart system after installation of the myvr plug-in. In case the myvr plug-in is not installed on the client machine, the appropriate message will be displayed with a URL to the plug-in download page. The proper functioning of the myvr 3D plug-in for Geospatial Portal is guaranteed only for Internet Explorer and Mozilla FireFox Web browsers. Geospatial Portal User Guide 9

10 Introduction Functionality Limitation for 3D Mode Some Geospatial Portal components are disabled while working in 3D mode.the following functionalities are unavailable on the Toolbar while working with the 3D map control: Measurements Data Edition and Selection Dynamic Object View (this functionality is available only with Full.aspx layout) Printing (this functionality is not available with Apollo Essentials - IWS.aspx layout) Quality Monitor (this functionality is not available with GeoMedia WebMap Publisher Portal - GWMPub.aspx and Apollo Essentials - IWS.aspx layout) Time (this functionality is not available with GeoMedia WebMap Publisher Portal - GWMPub.aspx and Apollo Essentials - IWS.aspx layout) Predefined Queries (this functionality is implemented only in GeoMedia WebMap Publisher Portal - GWMPub.aspx layout) The Navigator buttons Zoom by Rectangle, Previous Map View and Next Map View The table below show which functionalities of particular sidebar panels are unavailable in 3D mode: Sidebar panel Functionality available in layouts Functionality limitation Search Metadata Full.apsx Functionality not available. Analyses Full.aspx; Apollo.aspx; ApolloPro.aspx Spatial filtering is disabled. Settings Full.aspx; Apollo.aspx; ApolloPro.aspx; IWS.aspx; GWMPub.aspx None of the settings are applicable in 3D mode Search ERDAS APOLLO Apollo.aspx; ApolloPro.aspx Spatial filtering is disabled. Clip-Zip-Ship Apollo.aspx; ApolloPro.aspx Functionality not available. In the APOLLO Search Result Panel (available only for Apollo.aspx and ApolloPro.aspx layouts), the Add to Clip-Zip-Ship button is disabled because the Clip-Zip-Ship panel on the Sidebar is unavailable in 3D mode. 10 Geospatial Portal User Guide

11 Introduction The data coming from WebMap Publisher service in 3D mode can be displayed only in raster format, such as png or jpeg. Google Maps and Bing Maps can be displayed in 2D view only. Geospatial Portal User Guide 11

12 Introduction Getting Started with Geospatial Portal To start working with Geospatial Portal, open your Web browser and type the URL to the portal in the address field. Geospatial Portal is ready to use. When running Geospatial Portal in the Internet Explorer Web browser, the highest available Browser Mode and Document Mode is enforced and used. Geospatial Portal is not supported to work with a Browser Mode set to "IE9 Compact View" in Internet Explorer 9 and with a Browser Mode set to "IE8 Compact View" in Internet Explorer 8. Also, Geospatial Portal is not supported when working with values less than the actual Internet Explorer version for Browser Mode and Document Mode. 12 Geospatial Portal User Guide

13 Geospatial Portal User Interface Geospatial Portal consists of the following user interface elements: Banner Steering panel (side bar) Toolbar Map window Data window Search Result Panel (available only for Apollo.aspx and ApolloPro.aspx layouts) Introduction Toolbar The toolbar consists of the following tabs, on which special options and functions are grouped: Tools Measurements Data Sources Selection Search Time Edit Authentication Quality Monitor Geospatial Portal User Guide 13

14 Introduction Sidebar The tools on the Sidebar can be used for: Searching for metadata and Web services Searching geographic names Managing map legends Performing analysis Adjusting settings Additionally, when portal is run in apollopro.aspx or apollo.aspx layout, the tools on the Sidebar can be used to perform the following operations on ERDAS APOLLO Catalog: Browsing ERDAS APOLLO Catalog Searching ERDAS APOLLO Catalog Performing Geoprocessing (only when run in apollopro.aspx layout) Performing Clip-Zip-Ship operations The Sidebar contains the following panels: Map Content Search geographic names Search for data (metadata) Analyses Settings Geoprocessing Clip-Zip-Ship Browse ERDAS APOLLO Catalog Search ERDAS APOLLO Catalog Browsing and Searching APOLLO Catalog can be done only with Apollo and ApolloPro layouts. Therefore, the tabs Browse APOLLO Catalog, Search APOLLO Catalog, Geo Processing, and Clip-Zip-Ship are available only for Apollo and ApolloPro layouts. Map Window The map window is the place where all layers with spatial data are displayed. It consists of the following elements: Map window Displays all the layers that make up the map. Navigator Lets you navigate on the map and change the map scale. Navigator is displayed in the upper-left corner of the map window. Coordinates Shows the coordinates of the site indicated by the cursor. The coordinates are displayed in the lower-left corner. Scale bar Lets you estimate distances on the map. The scale bar is displayed in the lower-right corner of map window. 14 Geospatial Portal User Guide

15 Introduction Map Variant Buttons - Lets you quickly change between predefined maps if available. Geospatial Portal User Guide 15

16 Introduction 16 Geospatial Portal User Guide

17 S E C T I O N 2 Working with Geospatial Portal This section provides procedures, conceptual information, and technical details needed in everyday work with Geospatial Portal. In This Section Working with the Map Window Managing Data Sources Manipulating the Legend Searching for Geographic Names Searching for Data or Metadata Performing Analyses on Vector Data Working with ERDAS APOLLO Features Creating and Saving User Maps and Workspaces Printing Maps in Geospatial Portal Working with the Data Window and the Clipboard Showing Client Location Sharing a Map Displaying Vector Data on the Map Dynamically Importing and Exporting Web Map Context (WMC) Viewing Notification History Working with the WMS Time Parameter Editing Features Geometry User Registration and Login Using the Quality Monitor Feature Obtaining Help and Information About Geospatial Portal Changing Geospatial Portal Settings Working with the Map Window Navigating the maps displayed in Geospatial Portal is intuitive and can be performed in many ways using different tools. Besides navigating the map with a mouse, you can use tools such as Navigator, Zoom in/out, and Zoom by rectangle or the buttons that allow you to view the previous/next map state. All tools for navigating the map are available on the toolbar except Navigator, which is located in the upper-left corner of the map window. Geospatial Portal User Guide 17

18 Topics Changing to 3D/2D Map View Navigating the Map Changing the Scale Performing Measurements on the Map Selecting Data on the Map Obtaining Information About Features Using the Overview Window Changing to 3D/2D Map View In addition to 2D viewing capabilities, Geospatial Portal provides a 3D globe supporting the display of a basemap and renders other supported data sources properly. To switch between the 2D and 3D view, click the first button on the navigator toolbar. When you change to the 3D view, the graphics of this button changes and now can be used to switch back to the 2D view. By default, Geospatial Portal is run with 2D Map Control. Coordinate system for 3D Displaying the maps in 3D mode is possible only in the EPSG:3857 coordinate system. When you select the 3D Map Control mode, the coordinate system is automatically switched to EPSG:3857. Switching back to the 2D Map Control automatically restores the coordinate system that was used previously in the 2D mode. 2D / 3D map and legend synchronization The actual map range is remembered when changing between the 2D and 3D map control. Legend entries that cannot be displayed in 3D view are automatically disabled in Map Content. This limitation does not apply to WMS layers. WMS service layers are always displayable in 3D view regardless of the supporting coordinate systems. The myvr 3D Map Tiles and 3D Objects are displayable only in 3D mode. 18 Geospatial Portal User Guide

19 Navigating the Map Navigating the 2D map You can use one of the following methods to navigate the map in 2D mode: Panning around with a mouse. To move the map, hover over the map window. The mouse cursor changes to a hand. Click and hold the left mouse button to move the map. Release the mouse button to finish shifting the map and to set a new view. Use the Navigator. Hover over the Navigator and click the Navigator buttons to move the map around. With the Navigator you can move the map in four directions (N, E, S, W). Click Previous map view and Next map view to return to a previous map view or to go to the next map view (these buttons are not available in 3D mode). Geospatial Portal User Guide 19

20 Navigating the 3D map Use the mouse to navigate the map in 3D mode. With the left mouse button pressed, you can move along the 3D scene. To rotate the 3D scene (change the view direction or the view angle), move the mouse with the right mouse button pressed. You can also navigate the 3D scene with the navigator controls, as is the case with maps in the 2D view. When working with 3D maps, an additional button, Reset North, is available on the navigator toolbar. Use this button for a quick view reset so that the north direction is at the top. The buttons: Zoom by Rectangle, Previous map view, and Next map view are not available in the 3D mode. You can also use the navigator buttons in 3D mode for changing the view. Navigator in 2D mode Navigator in 3D mode 20 Geospatial Portal User Guide

21 Changing the Scale You can change the scale of the map in several ways, as follows: 1. Use Zoom in or Zoom out on the Navigator toolbar: Click to zoom in. Click to zoom out. 2. Use the Navigator slider rule. To zoom in, move the slider up. To zoom out, move slider down. 3. Use Zoom by rectangle to draw a rectangle on the map. The map fits to the drawn shape. 4. Use Set the map scale and type a value for the map scale denominator in the field. 5. To restore the default map view (scale and bounding box), click Fit all. 6. Click Previous map view and Next map view to return to a previous map view or to go to the next map view. 7. Use the mouse scroll wheel. Geospatial Portal User Guide 21

22 Performing Measurements on the Map Geospatial Portal provide a range of tools for performing measurements on the map. Tools for measuring distance, area, and points (read point coordinates) are grouped on the toolbar in the Measurements tab. Icon Name Description Measure point Measure distance Measure area Clear measures Lets you read the geographical coordinates of a designated point. Coordinates of a point are displayed on the map. Lets you measure the distance between two points or multiple points. Lets you measure the polygon area. Distance between points is also measured. Clears all measurements from the map. 22 Geospatial Portal User Guide

23 Selecting Data on the Map Tools for selecting objects displayed on the map are grouped on the Selection tab. You can select objects by clicking on a selected object or by drawing different types of geometries. The following functionalities used for selecting objects are available in Geospatial Portal: Icon Name Description Select features by point Selects all locatable objects in a designated point. Select features by polyline Selects all locatable objects that intersect with drawn geometry. Select features by polygon Selects all locatable objects within the drawn geometry and intersecting with it. Select features by rectangle Add selected features to clipboard Clear selection Selects all locatable objects within the drawn rectangle geometry and intersecting with it. Adds the selected features to the clipboard. Removes all selections from the map. Objects on the map can also be selected by single clicking on the desired object when the mouse cursor is in the arrow state. Selected objects can be added to the clipboard to further work with the data. Functionality for selecting objects is available only for vector features from services such as WebMap Publisher, Personal, WFS, and WFS-T (WFS Transactional). When you select one point feature (coming from Web Feature Service or WebMap Publisher Service), the map scale denominator changes to the value defined for a given legend item definition (feature class). The default value is set to 1: but may vary according to the Geospatial Portal configuration, and there can be many values for different legend item definitions. This is applicable only if the Fit and zoom out option for items in the select set is selected on the Settings panel. When you also select multiple point features, the behavior for the Fit and zoom out option is applied. For more information, contact the Geospatial Portal administrator. Geospatial Portal User Guide 23

24 Obtaining Information About Features The Feature Info command the map. lets you obtain information about the objects displayed on To open the property dialog box for a feature selected on the map, go to the Tools tab on the toolbar and click the Feature Info command. When the cursor changes to a cross hair, click on the object on the map. For features coming from the WebMap Publisher service, a show attributes action can be performed after double clicking on a selected feature, but only on the condition that this action (show attributes) is defined for a given active layer. Depending on the WebMap Publisher configuration, two other actions after double clicking can be defined: open url or zoom to selected features. WebMap Publisher service can be configured for different actions for every single layer. For map layers in the SVG and SVGZ format, the Feature Info command returns properties for the first selected and locatable layer from the top, regardless of the overall position of this map layer in the Map Content. In Opera and Safari Web browsers, the Feature Info command will work only for the top-most layer in the Map Content (even if all map layers above are not selected and are not locatable). This limitation applies to layers in SVG or SVGZ format. Using the Overview Window The Overview window shows the range of the current map view on the thumbnail map. It can be used for quickly moving your position on the map. To change the display area, draw a rectangle with the cross-hair cursor in the Overview window, or move the rectangle by holding its edge with the hand-style cursor. In the context menu (available under the down arrow) in the Overview window, the following additional settings are available: Translucency A translucency level for the Overview window can be set with the slider or by typing a value in the field. Zoom Use to adjust the range of the displayed map. The zoom level changes when you select Zoom and set the appropriate scale factor. 24 Geospatial Portal User Guide

25 Managing Data Sources Geospatial Portal lets you add new data sources of different types and then work with spatial data served by these data sources (services). For connecting to services, Geospatial Portal offers a set of connectors that lets you consume data and functionalities delivered by the service. Your administrator can predefine a list of services that you can register in Geospatial Portal, but you can also connect other known services. Connecting to the services is completely asynchronous, meaning that you never need to wait for a response from all requested services. In addition, you can stop the call and see only the data that was provided by other services. This approach increases performance and makes the application more reliable Geospatial Portal never hangs while waiting for an unresponsive service. Geospatial Portal offers connectors to the following services: Service Name WMS (Web Map Service) WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) Description For consuming map data delivered by WMS services and presenting it in a map window. For consuming map data delivered by WMTS services (raster tiles) and presenting it in a map window. Alternative host names for WMTS service are supported. WFS (Web Feature Service) For consuming vector data/queries delivered by WFS services and presenting the result in a map window or data window. WFS-G (Web Feature Service - Gazetteer) CSW (Catalog Service) WCTS/WPS CT (Web Coordinate Transformation System) Google Maps Microsoft Bing For consuming vector data (gazetteer data) delivered by WFS-G services and presenting it in a map window (as pins) or on a list of found objects. Provides an interface to discover, browse, and query metadata about data, services, and other potential resources. Performs transformation of GML data from one coordinate system to another. For consuming map data delivered by the Google Maps service. For consuming raster map data delivered by the Microsoft Bing service. Geospatial Portal User Guide 25

26 Service Name OpenLS LUWS GeoRSS WebMap Publisher Personal (Personal Storage Service - PSS) Print Service APOLLO Essential (IWS) APOLLO 3D Map Tiles 3D Objects Open Street Map Description For consuming data delivered by OpenLS services and presenting it in a map window (as pins) or on a list of found objects. For consuming data delivered by LUWS services and presenting it in a map window. For consuming data delivered by GeoRSS services and presenting it in a map window. For consuming map data and vector data, queries, and analysis delivered by a service using the WMPS (WebMap Publisher Service). For utilizing map and vector data delivered by a user-defined service. For using external print services. For consuming raster data delivered by ERDAS IWS (Image Web Service) service. For consuming raster, vector data, and services from the ERDAS APOLLO Catalog. For consuming myvr 3D Map Tiles generated by mtransformer utility. myvr 3D Map Tiles may have embedded 3D objects. For consuming myvr 3D Objects generated by the mtransformer utility. For consuming map data delivered by the Open Street Map service. The list of available connectors for data sources may vary and may be limited according to the purchased license. The WebMapPublisher service can contain several applications, so it is necessary to set an application from which maps and data will be consumed. To select an application available for the GWMPS service, use the Application drop-down list in the Data Source dialog box. To be able to consume ERDAS IWS raster data in Geospatial Portal, the ERDAS ECW plug-in must be installed on the client machine. This plug-in adds high-performance streaming of both ECW and JP2 geospatial aerial and satellite imagery over the internet. The ECW Protocol (ECWP) and the JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol (JPIP) from ERDAS APOLLO Essentials Image Web Server are used to work with data in ECWP and JP2 formats. The Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome browsers are supported.to download the plug-in, 26 Geospatial Portal User Guide

27 use the link provided on the Geospatial Portal Welcome Page or contact your Geospatial Portal administrator. Optionally for the WMTS service, you can provide alternate hostnames for performance reasons in case the given WMTS service supports alternate server names within the WMTS GetCapabilities document. When a list of URLs is registered, Geospatial Portal rotates through the list when requesting GetTiles, which significantly improves the performance. In order to register the WMTS service with an alternate domain names, open the New Data Source dialog box for WMTS connector; then in the URL field, provide the URL to the service, and select the Use Alternative host names check box. In the Alternative host names field, provide alternate domain names separated by semicolons. Topics Registering New Data Source Connecting to the WMS Service - Sample Workflow Connecting to myvr 3D Data Reviewing Registered Services Displaying Data from Registered Services Creating a Personal Storage Service (PSS) Consuming ERDAS APOLLO Essentials Imagery Data Registering New Data Source To add a new data source: 1. Go to the Tools tab on the toolbar. 2. Click Define a data source. A New Data Source window opens, and a list with connectors to the services displays on the left side of New Data Source. 3. Select a connector type 4. Provide a link to the service in the URL field. You can further define connection parameters using the available controls for the selected type of service. Your administrator can prepare a list of services and links to the services available to you. To connect to the service from the list, select the service. All required fields specifying the connection parameters will be populated automatically. There is no requirement to add the ' prefix at the beginning of the URL. If you forget to add ' at the beginning of the URL, Geospatial Portal will add it automatically. Geospatial Portal User Guide 27

28 5. If a service requires authorization, click the key button and select an appropriate authorization method. Then type a username and password if required to register a service. The appearance and functionality of the fields in the New Data Source dialog box may vary depending on the selected connector. 6. Register the service. Depending on the service type you are registering, the following buttons can be available: Register - Registers a service. You can display data from the registered service later by clicking Display maps or the Display feature and classes buttons. Register and choose layers - Opens the Add to legend dialog box, where maps or single feature classes can be selected and displayed. Register and display - Registers a service and adds data (maps) to the Map Content. Registering services such as WMS results in automatic data (layers) display in the map window. 28 Geospatial Portal User Guide

29 Use the Display maps or Displays map or queries commands to display, in the map window, data from other types of services (data sources). Services with Authorization To establish user authorization when registering a service: 1. Click the Data Sources tab on the toolbar. 2. Click Define a data source. The New Data Source window opens. Provide the URL to the service you want register and set all other available options. 3. Click. 4. Select the login method and provide credentials (if required). 5. Click Apply. Once authorization is complete, you can use the data provided by the services, but there is no notification to confirm the proper authorization. If authorization is not successful, the service registers successfully, but data is not accessible. There are three ways of authorization, based on the Method drop-down list: Anonymous No authorization is required. Username Provide a valid username and password. Security Token Use a Security Token sent from the STS Web Service to the requested service provider. Geospatial Portal User Guide 29

30 The appearance of the authorization form depends on the login method, as shown in the picture below: 30 Geospatial Portal User Guide

31 Connecting to the WMS Service - Sample Workflow To connect to the WMS in Geospatial Portal: 1. From the Data Sources tab on the toolbar, click Define a data source. A New Data Source window opens where you can select the data source type. 2. Select the WMS and provide a URL to the service you would like to connect to. There is no requirement to add the ' prefix at the begining of the URL. If you forget to add ' at the beginning of the URL, Geospatial Portal will add it automatically. 3. Press TAB. The other fields will be filled in automatically. You can change the values in the fields as needed: In the Image format field, select the format for map display. In the FeatureInfo format field, select the format in which information will be returned. In the SLD file field, you can type a link to a file with the definition of the SLD styles for the layers served by the service. The SLD file is an XML file with style definition for particular layers. It overrides the default style, which is set for layers served by a service. Geospatial Portal User Guide 31

32 4. Click to register and display WMS or to register and select layers to display. The registered WMS service is automatically displayed on the map, and an appropriate entry appears in the legend. The service is visible if the following conditions are met: 32 Geospatial Portal User Guide

33 Geospatial Portal uses the coordinate system supported by the service. The area shown in the map window coincides with the area of data served by the service. Scale ranges set in Geospatial Portal coincide with scale ranges set for data in the service. Parameters such as layers, image format, and property info format are determined by the service and might vary depending on the individual services, even of the same type. You can display other maps or single feature classes and queries using the following commands available on the Data Sources tab: Display maps lets you display predefined maps. Click Display maps to open a map window that contains all available, predefined, and ready-to-use maps as currently registered in Geospatial Portal data sources. To display predefined maps, check the box next to the required map and click Display. The map displays in the map window, and an entry is added to the Map Content. Display feature classes and queries lets you display feature classes and queries from available data sources. Click Display feature classes and queries to open the Feature classes window, where you have access to all available feature classes and queries served by the registered services. To display a feature class and/or query, select an element and click Display. The selected feature classes and queries display in the map window, and an entry appears in the Map Content. Geospatial Portal User Guide 33

34 Connecting to myvr 3D Data In order to connect to myvr 3D Map Tiles and/or myvr 3D Objects, you must provide a URL to the JSON file. The JSON file is a simple XML file with the.json extension, and it generally describes the data generated by mtransformer. Json files are usually placed in the Virtual Directory folder on a server. You can connect two types of myvr 3D data: 3D Map Tiles and 3D Objects. To display 3D Map Tiles, use the 3D Map Tiles connector on the New Data Sources dialog box; in order to add some 3D objects to your 3D map composition, use the 3D Objects connector. 34 Geospatial Portal User Guide

35 Reviewing Registered Services The Show data sources command, which is available on the Tools toolbar, shows all the services currently connected to Geospatial Portal and available for you. The URL to the service and the type of source are presented in the window with defined data sources information, such as the data source name. For every data source that is displayed in the Data Sources window, you can use a context menu to remove the selected data source from Geospatial Portal. Removing a data source causes the corresponding layers from the map window and the entries from the Map Content to disappear automatically. Geospatial Portal User Guide 35

36 Data sources that failed to initialize are marked in red. Instead of the service name, the service type with [failed] text is also displayed in the Name column. For uninitialized and marked data sources in the context menu, the Reload and Remove commands are available. Selecting the Reload command will result in an attempt to reload the service. The Reload command is available only for uninitialized data sources. For sources such as WFS (Web Feature Service), WMS (Web Map Service), and CSW (Catalog Service for Web), the GetCapabilities document is available in the right-click menu. For the selected service, you can read the GetCapabilities document in a new window. For WFS services, you also can read the Describe Feature Type document for every feature class served by a given service. 36 Geospatial Portal User Guide

37 Displaying Data from Registered Services You can display maps or single feature classes and queries that are already registered in Geospatial Portal data sources by using the following commands available on the Data Sources tab: Display maps lets you display predefined maps. Click Display maps to open a map window that contains all available, predefined, and ready-to-use maps as currently registered in Geospatial Portal data sources. To display predefined maps, check the box next to the required map and click Display. The map is displayed in the map window, and an entry is added to the Map Content. Display feature classes and queries lets you display feature classes and queries from available data sources. Click Display feature classes and queries to open the Feature classes window, where you have access to all available feature classes and queries served by the registered services. To display a feature class and/or query, select an element and click Display. The selected feature classes and queries are displayed in the map window, and an entry appears in the Map Content. Geospatial Portal User Guide 37

38 Creating a Personal Storage Service (PSS) Personal Storage Service lets you create a service into which you collect vector data. You can create feature classes, define attributes, add features, add attribute values, edit attribute values, and display vector data served by a service in the map. In order to collect and start working with PSS objects in Geospatial Portal, you have to register the service in Geospatial Portal and then define the feature classes and attributes (defining attributes is optional). Topics Registering Personal Storage Service Defining and Deleting Feature Classes Registering Personal Storage Service To register services: 1. On the Data Sources tab, select Define a data source to open the New Data Source dialog box. 2. In the New Data Source dialog box, select the Personal connector, and provide the name of the service. Then click Register. 38 Geospatial Portal User Guide

39 3. Using Show data sources, validate that the PSS service is registered in the Personal section. Defining and Deleting Feature Classes To define feature classes: 1. Select Display feature classes and queries. Expand the PSS to display its name. 2. In the drop-down menu for the PSS layer, select Feature Classes. Geospatial Portal User Guide 39

40 3. In the Feature Class Definition dialog box, select Define feature class from the drop-down menu for PSS. 4. The New Feature Class dialog box opens. In the General tab, define a new Feature Class. Type a Name and a Description, select the Geometry type and Coordinate system in which the Feature Class will be active, and set the Display style. For each personal service, you can define many feature classes, and each feature class may have a different coordinate system set for it. A single feature class of the PSS service can have only one coordinate system set. Changing a coordinate system in Geospatial Portal to be different from the one set for the feature class makes the layer for this feature class inactive. 40 Geospatial Portal User Guide

41 5. Optional: In the Attributes tab, define the Name and attribute Type. Working with Geospatial Portal 6. Click Save. 7. In the Feature Class Definition dialog box, expand the PSS layer and verify that all created feature classes are available. 8. In the Feature classes window, check the PSS layer and click Display. Geospatial Portal User Guide 41

42 9. The appropriate layer appears in the Map Content > Layers tab. Expand it and verify that the created feature classes are available. To delete created feature class: 1. Select Display feature classes and queries. Expand the PSS to display its name. 2. Open the Feature Class Definition dialog box. 3. Expand the PSS to see the feature classes. 4. From the context menu, select Delete feature class. 42 Geospatial Portal User Guide

43 Consuming ERDAS APOLLO Essentials Imagery Data To register and consume satellite imagery data from the ERDAS APOLLO Essentials: 1. Open the New Data Source dialog box, and then select the APOLLO Essentials connector from the connectors Type list. 2. Type the appropriate URL to the APOLLO Essentials service in the URL field (for example, 3. Using the tree in the dialog box, select the data to display. 4. Click Register and display. The service will be registered, and selected images will be displayed automatically. You can click Register and later select and display images using the Display features classes and queries or Display maps commands available on the Data Sources tab. Geospatial Portal User Guide 43

44 5. Satellite imagery in ECW format is displayed in the map and is ready to view, without placing a heavy load on computer memory and processors, while also maintaining high compression ratios and visually lossless image quality. The enhanced compression wavelet (ECW) is a high-performance compressed file format designed specifically for geospatial imagery. To be able to consume ERDAS APOLLO Essentials satellite imagery data (in ECW and JP2 format) in Geospatial Portal, the ERDAS ECW plug-in must be installed. This plug-in adds high-performance streaming of both ECW and JP2 geospatial aerial and satellite imagery over the internet using the ERDAS Compressed Wavelet Protocol (ECWP) or the JPEG2000 Interactive Protocol (JPIP) from the ERDAS APOLLO Essentials. When trying to connect the APOLLO Essentials service without having the plug-in installed, an appropriate message will be displayed in the notification area. To download the ECW Plug-in, use the link provided on the Geospatial Portal Welcome Page or contact with the Geospatial Portal administrator. The Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers are supported. What is ERDAS Compressed Wavelet Protocol (ECWP) and JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol (JPIP) ERDAS Compressed Wavelet Protocol (ECWP) is a very powerful, streaming imagery solution that is layered over standard HTTP and which provides image data on demand from compressed ECW or JPEG 2000 image files. The ECWP protocol provides significant performance enhancements over other protocols because it uses streaming technology with local caching and real-time pan and zoom. This can provide much faster response, significantly reduced network traffic, and reduced server load. JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol (JPIP) is a streaming protocol for fast image delivery over a network. It is only available for use with JPEG 2000 images. JPIP streams are delivered over standard HTTP and provide image data on demand from a compressed JPEG 2000 image. Any JPEG 2000 file format can be streamed over JPIP. 44 Geospatial Portal User Guide

45 About ECW and JPEG 2000 formats ECW is an acronym for Enhanced Compressed Wavelet, a standard for compressing very large images that is widely used in the GIS industry. ECW is an extremely fast data format and is ideal when serving backdrop imagery or when imagery is being downloaded by a large number of people. JPEG 2000 is an ISO standard developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG). JPEG 2000 is a substantial revision of the original JPEG standard. JPEG 2000 provides current and future application features and support, in addition to superior image compression. Both ECW and JPEG 2000 have their advantages. Choosing which format to use will be based largely on the circumstances that you require them for. To help you make this decision easier, the main factors are summarized below: Factors to Consider When Choosing the Appropriate Format: Serving: If you are intending to serve large amounts of imagery to a large number of users over limited bandwidth, it is recommended that ECW be used. Color depth: If you are using imagery with more than 8 bits per channel, you will have to use JPEG For 8-bit per channel images (RGB, Grayscale, or Multiband), ECW is faster. Size: If you are using extremely large datasets (greater than one terabyte), it is recommended that ECW be used. Performance: Compression and decompression of ECW images will in most cases be faster than JPEG Lossy or Lossless: If you intend to use lossless compression, then you will have to use JPEG Interoperability: JPEG 2000 has broad international support because it is an open ISO standard format. If serving via a streaming protocol, ECWP is faster, uses fewer resources on the client and server, and is more efficient than JPIP. Both ECW and JPEG 2000 images can be streamed over ECWP; only JPEG 2000 images can be streamed over JPIP. If you require images with opacity channels, ECW is faster than JPEG 2000 when serving/viewing these images. In case the service provides both protocols (ECWP and JPIP), the ECWP protocol will be the default one. Also, the ECW format is superior to jp2. If both formats are available, you can change the protocol format if needed within the controls on the Map Content tab. Protocol ECWP:// JPIP:// Formats.ecw ;.jp2.jp2 Geospatial Portal User Guide 45

46 Manipulating the Legend The legend for the maps displayed in the map window is shown in the Map Content panel on the Sidebar. Here you can mange your legend, change the layers order, modify a layer styles, and perform other tasks concerned with the map view in the map window. Map content consists of the following tabs: Layers In the Layers tab, the layers that are currently available in the map window are shown. The order of items in the Layers tab reflects the sequence of layers corresponding to the items on the map. The first element (top) in the list corresponds to the top layer on the map. To change the order of the layers on the map, use drag and drop to change the order of the corresponding elements in the Layers tab. You can control the display of a layer with a check box next to the layer name. Check the box to display the layer and clear the box to turn off the corresponding layer on the map. Layer properties such as display mode, locatability, translucency, and format can be set in the Layers tab. The properties possible to be set depend on the service (data source). All settings for layers are accessible from the context menu for the selected item. The following features and commands for layers are available: Menu Item Display mode Fit layer Description Sets options for the quality and efficiency for displaying layers on the map. Two modes are available: buffer view and tiling. Adjusts the map window so the entire layer is visible. 46 Geospatial Portal User Guide

47 Locatable Translucency Format Rename Remove Filter If enabled, highlights and selects features on the map. This is required for the Feature info command to work properly. Defines the transparency for the layer. Changes the format in which data is presented on a map, for example,.png,.jpeg,.svg,.svgz, and.gif. Changes the name of the layer. Removes a layer from the Map Content. You can also remove layers by selecting the layer and clicking Delete. Filters the vector data by attribute values. It applies only to data derived from sources such as WFS, MPS. The graphic indicator ( icon), along with a message that appears when you hover over the entry, is shown in Map Content if the number of objects displayed on the map is limited by the MaxFeatures parameter for WFS service. The message for the MaxFeatures indicator shows what the limitation is. In case more restrictions apply to a given feature class (for example, the data is out of scale), the message for the MaxFeature limitation will be visible only when you hover over the graphic indicator icon. Messages for other limitations will be displayed when you hover on an entry in the legend. For more information about the MaxFeatures parameter, contact the Geospatial Portal administrator. Geospatial Portal User Guide 47

48 Data Sources The Data Source tab contains information about data sources and maps. Entries are grouped by source/data providers. Categories The Categories tab lets you arrange all available layers into groups. The hierarchic structure of the data served by the services can be seen in the Categories tab. The right-click menu for layers is also available on the Categories tab.the following are the available options: Menu Item Fit layer Description Adjusts the map window so the entire layer is visible. 48 Geospatial Portal User Guide

49 Menu Item Locatable Visible Rename Remove Filter Description If enabled, highlights and selects features on the map. This is required for the Feature info command to work properly. Controls displaying the layer. Changes the name of the layer. Removes a layer from the Map Content. You can also remove layers by selecting the layer and clicking Delete. Filters the vector data by attribute values. It applies only to data derived from sources such as WFS, MPS. The Locatable option is not available in the right-click menu for the entire group, but only for single layers in the group. Topics Changing the Layer Display Style Setting the Display Format Layer Filtering Creating the Thematic Legend Setting Map Scale Bands Changing the Layer Display Style To change the display style for a layer on the map: 1. Double click on the pictogram for the selected layer The Style dialog box opens. 2. In the Style dialog box, choose the geometry type appropriate for a given layer (for example, the area style as shown in the picture below), and select the style type to be defined. 3. Define the style using the available controls, such as Width, Translucency, or Color. 4. After defining the style properties, click Apply. Geospatial Portal User Guide 49

50 To restore the default style for the selected layer, right click on the entry for the layer in Map Content and select Restore default style. The functionality for changing the style for displayed layers is accessible only for layers that come from services which support style changing. Defining a pattern fill: For geometries of the area type, you can define a pattern fill apart from the simple fill style. To define a pattern, fill in the Style dialog box, select the Simple fill style, and then type the path to the images library in the Library address field. The images library address should contain the URL to the virtual directory containing the images or to the folder name with images in the application folder that has been defined by the administrator. In the Picture field, all pictures for the provided libraries are visible. Select a picture that should be used as a pattern fill, and then click Apply to set the pattern fill for all objects of the selected feature class. Translucency for the pattern fill can be defined as well as for the simple fill style. When the pattern fill is defined, the color attribute is not applied. A pattern fill can be applied only to layers from services such as Web Feature Service, WebMap Map Publisher Service, and Personal Storage Service. Setting image as a point style: For features with the point geometry type, you can define a simple point style and graphic style. 50 Geospatial Portal User Guide

51 To define the graphic style for points: 1. Open the Style dialog box for the point geometry type layer. 2. Chose the geometry type, and select the Simple point style check box. Working with Geospatial Portal 3. In the Style dialog box, select Graphic style from the Type drop-down list. 4. Type the path to the images library in the Library address field. The library address should contain the URL to the virtual directory that contains the images or the folder name with images in the application folder that has been defined by the administrator. 5. In the Picture field, all images for the provided libraries are visible. Select an image that should be used as a point style. 6. Use the Size field to adjust the size of the image. 7. Use the Rotation field to define the value in degrees for the image (symbol) rotation. The image is rotated in a counterclockwise direction. To rotate the symbol in a clockwise direction, use negative values. The symbol preview is visible in the Style dialog box. 8. Use the Translucency field or slide bar to set the translucency for the image. 9. Click Apply to use a defined graphic style for all objects of a selected feature class. Setting the Display Format Layers in Geospatial Portal can be displayed in various formats, such as PNG, JPEG, SVG, SVGZ, or GIF. The format used for displaying particular layers is determined by the service that serves the data. In order to set the display format for a layer added to the Map Content: 1. From the layer context menu, select Format. 2. Check the format you wish to use. Geospatial Portal User Guide 51

52 Only formats supported by a given service are listed and available in the context menu.the command for setting the format is available only for the parent layer; this mean that the selected format is applied to all sub layers. In order to display on a map the layers (feature classes) from one service that are in different formats, add the feature classes (which figure as sub layers) two times (or more if needed), and then set the required formats for each layer individually. As a result, feature classes (sub layers) will have a separate parent layer, but they can be displayed on the map in different formats. 52 Geospatial Portal User Guide

53 Layer Filtering Vector data that comes from data sources such as WebMap Publisher Service or Web Feature Service can be filtered in the map window. The filter can be set separately for every feature class layer. Objects can be filtered in the map window using the attributes available for them. To define an attribute filter for a displayed layer: 1. Open the drop-down menu for the selected layer, and then select Filter to display a list of attributes for a given feature class. The Filter menu is accessible from all tabs of Map Content: Layers, Data Sources, and Categories. 2. Select an attribute for filtering, type the appropriate attribute value in the field, and then click Apply to filter the map data. 3. The filtering operation is based on a simple filtering with the equal to attribute operator. Attribute operators such as greater than and less than can be available for some attributes (other than text type). Depending on the attribute type, the field for providing their values may vary. For some services, for example WFS, only one operator equal to is available regardless of the field type. Geospatial Portal User Guide 53

54 Below is the sample of the filter field for text and integer type attributes. If more than one attribute is selected for filtering, the logical operator for the selected attributes is AND. 4. To cancel the filter, click the button next to the Filter menu. 54 Geospatial Portal User Guide

55 Creating the Thematic Legend Simple Thematic Map Designer lets you define and display thematic maps based on attribute data. The Thematic legend option is available from the Map Content tab on the layer(s) context menu. The Thematic legend command from the context menu for a given layer opens the Thematic item dialog box. The Thematic legend option can be defined only for the layers of the Personal Storage Service (PSS). To be able to define thematic legends for data from WFS services, contact the Geospatial Portal administrator. This dialog box contains the following tabs: Unique value thematic Range thematic User defined These tabs let you filter feature class objects using different criteria that you select from the Attribute for classification drop-down list. To create a thematic legend entry: 1. Open the Thematic item dialog box for the desired layer. 2. Select an appropriate tab on the Thematic item dialog box. 3. Select an appropriate Attribute for classification. 4. Type values based on the chosen tab (Value/Begin, Value/End, Value/Expression). 5. Type a Label for the thematic legend entry. 6. Select a Style appropriate for the selected layer. 7. Optional: Specify the style for displaying the entire layer (labeled as Other values in the bottom part of the Thematic item window). Geospatial Portal User Guide 55

56 You must provide values in both fields (Label and Value) in order to create a thematic legend. As a result, a new thematic legend is added for the selected layer, and a thematic map is displayed using the defined style. Thematic Item Window Tabs and Sample Values The Thematic Item window has the following tabs: Unique value thematic Use this tab to display objects having a selected attribute with the identical values as the values introduced in the Value field. Sample Values Layer States Rivers Attribute for classification Name RIVER_NAME Value California Missouri Label CA MyRiver Style Areal Linear 56 Geospatial Portal User Guide

57 Range thematic Use this tab to display objects having a selected attribute value within the values introduced in the range described by the Begin Value and End Value fields. Sample Values Layer Counties Interstates Attribute for classification Population ROUTE_NUMBER Begin Value End Value Label PopulationRange RouteRange Style Areal Linear User defined If you are an advanced user, use this tab to edit expressions retrieved from Unique value thematic and Range thematic (in this case, you can edit the expressions from the last-selected tab) or create a new expression manually (according to the syntax of the selected WFS). Sample Values Layer States Attribute for classification Name Value Label Style California CA Areal The expression field has the following structure: Expression1: '[{ == 'California' In this case, attribute values or operators can be modified, as in the following example: Expression2: '[{ 'California', Produces the opposite result on the map from Expression1. Generally, expressions have the following format: AttributeName1 operator1 Attribute1Value operator2 Geospatial Portal User Guide 57

58 AttributeName2 operator3 Attribute2Value operator4 AttributeName3 operator5 Attribute3Value operator6 AttributeNameN operatorm AttributeNValue. Sample operators can be ==,!=, &&,, and so forth. 58 Geospatial Portal User Guide

59 Setting Map Scale Bands Scale bands specify a map scale in which every single layer is visible on the map. Setting a scale band for map layers: 1. To set scale bands, from the Tools tab, click Scale bands configuration. 2. Add a new scale band. Click Edit and then click Add scale band. Then, enter the name and maximum scale, and click Apply. 3. To determine which layers should be displayed in which scales, check and/or clear the check boxes next to specific layers and scales. 4. Options for storing and grouping layers (Map services and Map Layers ) are available at the bottom of the Scale bands settings window. 5. After setting all parameters, click Save to save the changes. Geospatial Portal User Guide 59

60 Searching for Geographic Names Search geographic names lets you search geographic objects such as cities, regions, and points of interest. The search result lists objects in response to search criteria. You can see information and the location on the map window for every search result. Data is searched in the databases of connected WFS-G (Gazetteer) services. You can search for geographic objects using capabilities available in the sidebar or by using the search tool called Live search, which is available on the toolbar. This functionality by default is not available with the Apollo layout. If you need it for the apollo.aspx layout, use your Administration Console to turn it on, or contact your Geospatial Portal administrator. Topics Searching Geographic Names Using Search in the Sidebar Searching Geographic Names Using Live Search Searching Geographic Names Using Search in the Sidebar To search the geographic names: 1. In the sidebar, click the Search geographic names tab. 2. In the Name field, type a name to search for and click Search. Search results are displayed in a table. 60 Geospatial Portal User Guide

61 Pins showing the locations of found geographic names and objects appear on the map. When using the Search geographic names panel, there is no change in scale. Pins are not highlighted in 3D mode. The style of pins may vary and depends on the Geospatial Portal theme used. Additionally, the appearance of pins and fonts for the results of a geographic names search for a 3D map control may be configured by the Geospatial Portal administrator. For more information, refer to the Geospatial Portal Administrator Guide, or contact the Geospatial Portal administrator. The search results contain buttons that let you do the following: Icon Name Description Show on map Display on map Center the map on the selected location, but the map scale is not changed. The pin for the selected object is highlighted. Set visibility on the map either on or off. Feature info Display a window with feature information about the object. Hovering over an item in the list highlights the pin. 3. To restrict search results to the actual area of the map window, check Only in map extent. Geospatial Portal User Guide 61

62 4. To clear all fields and search results, click Clean. Only pins corresponding to search results performed by using the Search geographic names dialog box will be removed. The pins for Live Search results will remain on the map. The Only in map extent option is available for selected types of services. Searching Geographic Names Using Live Search To search geographic names using live search: 1. On the toolbar, click the Search tab. 2. To select the service or services that Geospatial Portal uses to search, right click next to Search. In the Search field, type a geographic name for searching objects. Hints in a drop-down list appear while you type the name. The search results appear in the list, and pins appear on the map. Hovering over an item in the list highlights the corresponding pin. 3. To change the scale of the map and to zoom to the specified location, click a name in the search results list. 62 Geospatial Portal User Guide

63 4. To remove an entire layer of pins from map window, click on the Search tab. Only pins corresponding to the Live Search results will be removed. There is a scale change when using the Live Search combo. The scale to be used when a result is clicked is configurable and may be changed by the Geospatial Portal administrator. The pins for Live Search results and search results obtained by using the Search geographic names dialog box are displayed independently and with different styles. Geospatial Portal User Guide 63

64 Searching for Data or Metadata Catalog Web Service (CSW) lets you search for metadata in the database. This feature is by default turned off for the apollo.aspx layout. If you need it for the apollo.aspx layout, ask your Administration Console to turn it on or contact your Geospatial Portal administrator. To seach for metadata: 1. n the sidebar, type the required metadata parameter in the Search criteria field, and click Search. The found metadata displays in the sidebar in the table below the search dialog box. 2. To limit your search to metadata in the area which corresponds to the current map window, click Overlap the current map window. 64 Geospatial Portal User Guide

65 Icons next to the name of retrieved metadata show you what type of data is displayed. There are the following types and icons: Icon Description Metadata for series Metadata for services Metadata for dataset You can perform the following actions in the table of results for metadata: Icon Description Adds the selected service to the Map Content. Removes the selected service from the Map Content. Centers the map on the selected metadata and shows its range. Removes the selected metadata range from the map. Adding layers to a map is possible only for metadata of the service type. An exception may be metadata for the series and datasets, for which a link to the corresponding service is provided. You can obtain detailed information about found metadata. Select an entry in the results table to display a new window that contains detailed information. Geospatial Portal User Guide 65

66 A right-click menu in the search dialog box lets you do the following: Select the service from which metadata will be searched. Select the metadata profile for a metadata search. In order to search metadata using multiple parameters, click Advanced in the Search for data metadata tab. A form opens on which you can provide a series of keywords, according to which data you want to search. The results of your search are displayed in the table in the sidebar. The search form will differ depending on the selected metadata profile. 66 Geospatial Portal User Guide

67 Performing Analyses on Vector Data The Analyses panel on the sidebar lets you perform a series of attribute or spatial queries on vector data from the selected sources. Topics Defining and Executing Analyses Downloading Analyses Results Updating Analyses Defining and Executing Analyses To perform a new analysis: 1. From the first top drop-down list, select Create new option. Create new is a default option. If no queries were performed, only the Create new value is available. 2. From the Select features in drop-down list, select the feature class for which to perform analysis. 3. Set the analysis parameters: a. Check Where filter is to perform an attribute query and to set the required parameters. b. Check Spatial filter to perform a spatial query and to set all the required parameters. Available spatial and attribute parameters and operators may vary depending on the data source type. 4. Type a name for the analysis layer, and set the style in which the results should be presented on the map. 5. In the Display field, specify the query name. This name is visible in the Map Content tab. 6. To change the style in which the analysis results are displayed on the map, check With style and click. If the style is not defined, the data is presented with a default style. 7. Click Execute to perform an analysis. Data appears in the map window and in the Map Content tab. Response time depends on the quantity of data that is loaded. Geospatial Portal User Guide 67

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69 Downloading Analyses Results The result of a performed analysis can be downloaded to vector files such as KML, Shapefile, and GML. The availability of particular formats depends on the Geospatial Portal configuration and the capabilities of the service that serves data for analysis. To download analyses to a vector file: 1. Set analysis parameters. For more information see Analyses (see "Performing Analyses on Vector Data" on page 67). 2. Click the down arrow on the Download button to view all available vector formats. 3. Click on selected format to download analysis result to a file. The Download button is active only if all required fields on the Analyses tab are filled in. If Download is clicked without unfolding the list with available formats, the data will be downloaded in default format. For more information about setting the default vector format, contact the Geospatial Portal administrator.there is no need to click Execute before downloading the result to a vector file.the number of WFS features downloaded to a file can be limited according to the Geospatial Portal configuration. For more information about setting the download limitation for WFS features, contact your Geospatial Portal administrator. With the default Geospatial Portal configuration, the analysis result can be downloaded to the following vector formats: GML, KML, CSV, and Shapefile (on the condition that the connected service also supports these formats). Information on which vector formats are supported by the service used for analysis can be obtained by performing a GetCapabilities request. For more information about enabling/disabling vector formats to download in Geospatial Portal, contact the Geospatial Portal administrator. Geospatial Portal User Guide 69

70 Updating Analyses Once executed, analysis can be altered and updated according to your needs. You can freely change the parameters set for the analysis and can immediately see the updated results on the map and/or data window. To update an analysis: 1. Go to the Analyses tab. 2. From the first drop-down list, select an analysis to update. This list is populated with all executed analyses. (In case no analyses have been performed so far, only the Create new option will be available.) All fields for the Analyses dialog box are populated with values used for earlier performed and selected analyses. 3. Alter the required parameter values for the selected analysis. You can also change the parameter used for a given analysis and change the display style and name if needed. To clear all fields, click Clear. 4. Having provided all changes to the analysis definition, click Update. Results of the analysis will be updated according to the set parameters and their values. In Map Content, the entry for an altered analysis will remain unchanged (except for the pictogram and the layer name provided that modified). 70 Geospatial Portal User Guide

71 The button Update changes to Execute when the Create new option is selected. It is also possible to select an analysis to update directly from the Map Content tab. For a selected analysis layer from the context menu, select the Update analysis option. The Analyses tab will be automatically opened with all fields filled in for the selected query. Geospatial Portal User Guide 71

72 Deleting an Analysis: All executed analyses are kept in Geospatial Portal (unless you refresh the application) and can be modified and/or displayed later, even if they were earlier removed from the Map Content and/or Data Window. Analyses that are no longer needed can be deleted permanently. In order to do this, select the analysis to be removed, and click Delete on the bottom of the dialog box. The Delete button is available on the form only if an analysis is selected from the list. Creating a new analysis based on an existing one In order to create a new analysis based on an existing one: 1. From the top pull-down list, select the analysis to be the base for a new one. All fields in the dialog box will be filled in with values proper for the selected analysis. 2. Modify any required parameters if needed. 3. From the top pull-down list, select Create new. The button Update changes to Execute. 4. Click Execute to create a new analysis. 72 Geospatial Portal User Guide

73 Working with ERDAS APOLLO Features This section describes the procedures, tools, and features of Geospatial Portal that are used mainly when working with ERDAS APOLLO Catalog. Tools and features covered in this section are available only if Geospatial Portal is run in layout apollopro.aspx or apollo.aspx. Geoprocessing functionality is accessible only in apollopro.aspx. Topics Browsing ERDAS APOLLO Catalog Performing Clip-Zip-Ship Process Searching ERDAS APOLLO Catalog Geoprocessing Working with Search Result Panel Handling DTM Layers from ERDAS APOLLO Browsing ERDAS APOLLO Catalog On the Browse ERDAS APOLLO Catalog panel, you can browse for all of the data that you are able to access through the Web Client. In the Browse ERDAS APOLLO Catalog tree, the following elements can be listed on conditions that exist in the catalog: Services The Services node shows all of the service providers that you can access through the Web client. These service providers are categorized by the type of protocol that they use. WMS - Web map service providers. Under this node, you will also see the base map that is being used in the maps panel. The label shown for the top-level node for a WMS comes from the title parameter for the WMS (which is shown in the GetCapabilities document for the WMS). Under that node, the layers are shown in their hierarchical format, in accordance with OGC specifications for WMS. WFS - Web feature service providers. The top-level node for WFS comes from the title parameter of the WFS. Under that node, the layers are shown in a flat format, since the WFS specification provided by the OGC does not allow the nesting of feature types. Coverages - Contents of the image/data catalog for the ERDAS APOLLO Server that is associated with this Web client. Geospatial Portal User Guide 73

74 All of the datasets and aggregates in the catalog are shown as nodes under the ROOT aggregate for the catalog. You can open an aggregate node to see the child aggregates, if there are any. If you click on an aggregate, the Results Panel will display more information about the aggregate and a list of the datasets that it contains. Detailed information about selected items from the catalog are displayed in the bottom Search Result panel, where you can perform some actions such as adding to the map, viewing metadata, displaying the spatial extent of data on the map, and more (see Working with Search Result Panel (on page 92)). Only one catalog service can be connected to the Geospatial Portal at once. In order to browse data from another catalog service, you need to remove the actual catalog from registered data sources and then connect a new one. To refresh the directory tree and to see the changes made in the ERDAS APOLLO Catalog, click Refresh in the lower-right corner of the tab. Browse ERDAS APOLLO Catalog is available only with apollopro.aspx or apollo.aspx layout. 74 Geospatial Portal User Guide

75 Performing Clip-Zip-Ship Process The Clip-Zip-Ship feature takes data that you have clipped, or selected, and places it in a zip file. The URL that you can use to access that zip file and download is then shipped to your address. You can download any type of data as long as it is WCS-enabled. The data can be shipped in the following formats:.tif (GeoTIFF).img (the ERDAS IMAGINE native format).ntf (National Imagery Transmission Format).ecw (Enhanced Compression Wavelet).jp2 (JPEG2000).LAS LAS format is available only for LIDAR datasets. To initiate the Clip, Zip, and Ship process, you first need to indicate which coverage you want to download by selecting its entries in the Search Results panel. Next, click Add to Clip-Zip-Ship, and the Clip-Zip-Ship tab on the sidebar will be activated. All coverages selected in the Search Result panel will appear automatically in the Coverages fields on the Clip-Zip-Ship tab. You can remove certain coverages that are selected for being clipped, zipped, and shipped from the list by selecting them and clicking Remove Selected. In order to clean the Coverages list, just click Remove All. When any data is added to the Clip-Zip-Ship coverages list, the service is registered automatically in Data Sources and a layer with the selected data is displayed on the map. When the Send button is clicked in the Clip-Zip-Ship dialog box, the layer is removed from the map automatically while the service remains registered in Geospatial Portal. When you hover the mouse cursor over an item in the Coverages list, the preview window with thumbnail, name, and description for the selected item appears. Also, the corresponding footprint on the map (described in the Search Results Panel section) is automatically highlighted. Double clicking on the item in the Coverages list results in zooming to extent for the selected coverage. Geospatial Portal User Guide 75

76 Before zipping and shipping the data, options for Coverages should be defined. The options set on the options tabs are applied to each coverage added to the list. Options are grouped in two tabs: Common options and Coverage options. Some fields in the options group are filled automatically, but you can change them according to your needs. The parameters set on the Common options tab applies to all present items in the Coverages list. If some parameters on the Coverage options are set for any coverage from the list, then the parameters from the Coverage options tab are used for the Clip-Zip-Ship. The first tab Common options is used to specify the following parameters: address Geometry The second tab Coverage options is used to specify such parameters as: Output SRS Output format Measurement method Resolution Width (in pixels) Height (in pixels) Interpolation Bands Use Common Geometry 76 Geospatial Portal User Guide

77 Options on the Coverage tab: Output SRS The SRS to which the downloaded data will be re-projected. You can choose from SRS identifiers available in the drop-down list. You can also define a different SRS for each selected coverage item, or you can select the Use common option. When the Use common option is selected, the SRS chosen in the Geometry field on the Common options sub tab will be used. Output format The data can be shipped in the following formats:.tif (GeoTIFF),.img (the ERDAS IMAGINE native format),.ntf (National Imagery Transmission Format).ecw (Enhanced Compression Wavelet).jp2 (JPEG2000).LAS If requested data is not already in one of these formats, the application converts it. LAS format is available only for LIDAR datasets. Measurement Indicates the measurement types which specify if and how the coverages will be resampled before shipping. If Measurements is set to Resolution, you must provide the values for the Resolution and Resolution unit fields. If Measurement is set to Pixel, the Width (pixels) and Height (pixels) fields are activated where the image size is defined. Interpolation ERDAS APOLLO assigns calculated values to certain pixels in shipped images in order to make those images appear smoother. This option allows you to select how ERDAS APOLLO calculates those values. ERDAS APOLLO provides the following interpolation methods, although the ones that are currently available to you will depend on the format of the source image you are downloading: Nearest Neighbor - Assigns the value of the closest pixel. Bicubic - Assigns the weighted average of the nearest 4 pixels. Bilinear - Assigns the weighted average of the nearest 16 pixels. The pixels that are closest to the unknown pixel are weighted more heavily in that average. Available bands Specifies the bands of the source coverage that will be included in the shipped coverage. For example, if you have 4 bands in an image and if in the Clip-Zip-Ship request only 2 bands are specified, then the server would only output the 2 specified bands from the image. You specify the bands by moving appropriate elements from the available field to the selected field by using arrows. By default, all available bands are selected. With buttons Up and Down, which appear on the dialog box, you can rearrange the order for the listed bands. Use common Geometry When this option is selected, the settings from the Common options for geometry are applied. Unchecking Use common geometry allows you to define different geometry options for every added coverage on the list. The possible geometry options (selectable from the drop-down list) are as follows: Entire image If this option is selected, the entire selected image(s) will be processed. Geospatial Portal User Guide 77

78 Only in visible map area Limits the processed image to the area that overlaps with the currently displayed area on the map. Draw on the map Lets you specify the part of the image to be processed by drawing geometry. Drawn geometry is verified for intersecting lines or overlapping parts. Each time an incorrectness for geometry is found, an appropriate message with warnings appears. To turn of this warning, check the Ignore warnings check box. When the Draw on the map as a spatial filtering option is selected, five buttons for drawing and clearing geometry appear in the form. To draw a geometry, first select the geometry type by pressing the appropriate button in the draw geometry group, and then draw a geometry on the map. Click to finish inserting a vertex for the first object, and double click to finish inserting an object (for points features, click to finish inserting objects). Right click exits from the drawing mode. To remove drawn geometry, click Clear geometry in the draw geometry group. Select feature from the map Allows you to define the area defined by other vector features selected on the map. The features used for selection may come from an OGC WFS service or Personal service registered in Geospatial Portal. To select features, use the tools from Selection tab on the toolbar. See topic Selecting Data on the map (on page 23) for more information about selecting features. For Entire image, Draw on the map, and Select feature from the map, the buffer can be set. When defining a buffer, two parameters must be provided: buffer unit, which is selected from the Unit drop-down list, and buffer value, which is set in the Value field. Having provided those two parameters, click OK (in the buffer option group) to apply settings for defining the buffer. The Clear buffer button removes the defined buffer from the map. The buffer cannot be applied when the Only in visible map area option is selected. 78 Geospatial Portal User Guide

79 Options on the Common tab: address Provides the address to which the data will be sent Output SRS The SRS to which the downloaded data will be re-projected. This is a global setting for all coverages and will be used only in case the option Use common option (default) is selected for the Output SRS field on the Coverages options tab. Entire image If this option is selected, the entire selected image(s) will be processed. Unchecking Entire image allows you to define the spatial extent or to specify the part of the image for selected coverages marked for download. The spatial extent can be defined with one of three available methods (selectable from the drop-down list): Only in visible map area Limits the processed image to the area that overlaps with the currently displayed area on the map. Draw on the map Lets you specify the part of the image to be processed by drawing geometry. Drawn geometry is verified for intersecting lines or overlapping parts. Each time an incorrectness for geometry is found, an appropriate message with warnings appears. To turn off this warning, check the Ignore warnings check box. When the Draw on the map as a spatial filtering option is selected, five buttons for drawing and clearing geometry appear in the dialog. To draw a geometry, first select the geometry type by pressing the appropriate button in the Draw geometry group, and then draw a geometry on the map. Click to finish inserting a vertex for the first object, and double click to finish inserting an object (for points features, click to finish inserting objects). Right clicking exits from the drawing mode. To remove drawn geometry, click Clear geometry in the draw geometry group Select feature from the map Allows you to define the area defined by other vector features selected on the map. The features used for selection may come from an OGC WFS service or Personal service registered in Geospatial Portal. To select features use the tools from Selection tab on the toolbar. See Selecting Data on the map (on page 23) topic for more information about selecting features. Geospatial Portal User Guide 79

80 Additionally, methods for Draw on the map and Select feature from the map buffer can be set. When defining a buffer, two parameters must be provided: buffer unit, which is selected from the Unit drop-down list, and buffer value, which is set in the Value field. Having provided those two parameters, click OK (in the buffer option group) to apply settings for the defined buffer. The Clear buffer button removes the defined buffer from the map. The buffer cannot be applied when the Only in visible map area option is selected. After you have set up all of the coverage download options, click Submit. You will receive a confirmation as soon as the server receives your request. Geospatial Portal will then process your coverages according to the options you specified and will place them in a zip file. Each time an incorrectness for geometry is found, an appropriate message with warnings appears. To turn off these warnings, check the Ignore warnings check box. You will receive a notification when the server completes your request. The notification contains a hyperlink to the location of the zip file. The Clip-Zip-Ship tab is accessible only in the apollo.aspx or apollopro.aspx layout. 80 Geospatial Portal User Guide

81 LAS Format for LIDAR Data The LAS output format is available only for LIDAR datasets. When LAS is selected in the Coverage options sub tab, parameters different from those of other output formats can be set. IMG GeoTIFF ITF ECW JP2/JPEG2000 LAS The following are the parameters available on the Coverage option sub tab when the LAS output format is selected: SRS - EPSG code (the same as for raster data). Geometry Use the Geometry drop-down list to choose between a rectangle (bbox) and a polygon. Format List of output formats that are the same as for raster data plus LAS. Return value A (text) field where you can insert a natural number that corresponds to the order number of the reflected signal. Geospatial Portal User Guide 81

82 Classification You can select which Lidar classifications to keep when you want to subset and download the LAS file. Possible values for classification: Created, never classified Unclassified Ground Low Vegetation Medium Vegetation High Vegetation Building Low Point (noise) Model Key-point (mass point) Water Overlap Points 82 Geospatial Portal User Guide

83 Searching ERDAS APOLLO Catalog In order to search ERDAS APOLLO Catalog for particular data, go to the Search ERDAS APOLLO Catalog panel on the sidebar. Here you can enter criteria for the APOLLO Web Client to use when searching for datasets (which represent single images), aggregates (which represent collections of images), vector layers, map layers, coverage layers, or custom objects. Some of the search criteria fields only appear when you select certain options in other fields. The Search ERDAS APOLLO Catalog is accessible only in layout apollo.aspx or apollopro.aspx. Geospatial Portal User Guide 83

84 Search Fields for Search Criteria Keywords Returns items whose name, keywords, or description matches one of the requested keywords. The Web Client automatically appends a "wildcard" to the end of each keyword you enter in this field. For example, if you enter "Al" as a keyword, the search would return any item with an ID or keyword that begins with Al, and your search results could include "Alabama","Alaska", and "Alexandria". Type, Data Type, and Availability Specifies the kind of information that you are looking for. Data can be retrieved using different search criteria and filtered by Type, Data type, and Availability. You can search for following object types: Any Datasets Aggregates - Collection of datasets and nodes in the ERDAS APOLLO Catalog Datasets and Aggregates Service layers 84 Geospatial Portal User Guide

85 There are two filtering combo boxes: Type and Data Type. Selecting one of the object types shown above from the Type pull down list will enable the Data Type field, if applicable.the Availability specifies whether the results should be accessible through ECWP streaming, maps through the WMS or WMTS interface, or coverages through the CZS interface. The table below shows the dependency tree of elements displayed in Search Panel drop downs and associated search options: Type: Data Type: Availability: Any NA NA Dataset (default) Any (default) Imagery Vector Add to Map (WMS) Downloadable (CZS) Add to Map (WMS) Add to Map (WMTS) Map Streamable (ECWP) Downloadable (CZS) Add to Map (WMS) Downloadable Documents Downloadable Agregates NA Add to Map (WMS) Downloadable Dataset & Aggregate NA Add to Map (WMS) Downloadable Service layers Any NA Map Layers (WMS) (default) Vector Layers (WFS) Coverage Layers (WCS) Geospatial Portal User Guide 85

86 Below is a sample view of Search ERDAS APOLLO Catalog dialog boxes with different Availability options, depending on the chosen Type and Data Type: Date The Date field represents different things, depending on what type of items you are searching for. The types of dates you can search for: The Registration Date - This is the date that the layer information was registered in the APOLLO Catalog. The Registration Date is available for all data types. Acquisition Date - The date of an item creation. Acquisition Date is only for Imagery Datasets. Temporal extent - Beginning and end dates of the temporal extent you want to search for. Returns results whose temporal extent intersects the temporal extent bound by the two dates you provide here. The calendar icon to the right of each timestamp field allows you to select a date. Both timestamp fields must be filled out if you want to search by temporal extent. Temporal extent is for all datasets. The values for those dates are set in two fields: Start and End. Spatial filter This option allows you to limit search results spatially. Two methods of spatial filtering are available: 86 Geospatial Portal User Guide

87 Only in visible area Limits the search results only to the data that overlaps the visible area. Draw on the map Allows you to draw a geometry on the map that will limit the search results. Four types of geometries are possible to draw: point, line, rectangle, and free area. The search results will include only those objects that intersect with drawn geometry. When Draw on the map as a spatial filtering option is selected, five buttons for drawing and one for clearing geometry appear in the form. To draw a geometry, first select the geometry type by clicking the appropriate button in the Draw geometry group, and then draw a geometry for the first object on the map. A click finishes inserting a vertex for the first object, and a double click finishes inserting an object (for points features, a single click finishes inserting objects). Geometry for the next object of the same type can now be drawn, and so on. Right clicking exits from the drawing mode. The point geometry can be drawn in two ways: by direct indication of the point on the map or by entering the coordinates of a point. When the method of inserting a point by coordinates is selected, two additional fields for providing coordinates appear on the dialog box. Coordinates must be entered in units appropriate for the currently used SRS. Multiple geometries of one type can be used as a spatial filter. This mean that it is possible to draw, for example, many points on the map, and all drawn points will be used to filter the search results. Draw on the map is unable to draw mixed multi-geometries, for example, lines and points or areas. To remove drawn geometry, click Clear geometry. Select feature from the map Limits the search to the selected features on the map. The search will return any item whose footprint intersects with a specified shape. Objects that act as a shape filter for searches can only come from vector layers, such as Personal or WFS. In case the option Spatial filter with Select feature from the map method is chosen, but no features are selected on the map, the search will be executed as if the spatial filter is not applied. The method of spatial filtering can be chosen from the drop-down list, which is active only if the Spatial filter option is enabled. Buffer - Additionally, you can set the buffer for each object that serves as a spatial filter. When defining a buffer for a spatial search, two parameters must be provided: buffer unit, which is selected from the Unit drop-down list, and buffer value, which is set in the Value field. After Geospatial Portal User Guide 87

88 providing those two parameters, click OK (in the Buffer option group) to apply the settings for defined buffer. Clear buffer - Removes the defined buffer from the map. The defined buffer for a spatial filter is shown on the map. In case the option Draw on the map is selected as a spatial filter, when the buffer is applied, the geometry for drawn objects is changed by a specified buffer. However, if the option Select feature from the map is selected as a spatial filter and you apply a buffer to the selected features, a new temporal geometry showing the feature extended by the specified buffer will be drawn on the map. A buffer cannot be applied when Only in visible map area is selected as a spatial filter method. Having provided all required information, click Search to find the data. Search results are displayed on the bottom of the Search Result window, where you can quickly add selected data to the map or show the extent for the found data. The search form can be extended with additional, custom search criteria fields defined by the administrator. For more help on custom fields, if they occur, contact the Geospatial Portal administrator. 88 Geospatial Portal User Guide

89 Geoprocessing With the Geoprocessing panel on the Sidebar, you can execute certain processes that have been stored in your ERDAS APOLLO system, and you can view the results of those processes. The Processes list sub tab shows all of the processes that you have access to in the Geospatial Portal Web Client. Each of the nodes that you see in the tree is a process category. If you open the process category node, you will see the processes themselves. To execute a process in the Geospatial Portal: 1. Locate the process in the list on the Processes List sub tab. Double click on it to select it, or click on it and click Select. Another sub tab Selected will appear in the Geoprocessing tab. The Selected sub tab generally has two sections: the first section with a detailed description of the process and a second section with input fields for the chosen process. The exact fields in the Input Data section vary depending on the process that you are trying to execute. Additionally, the GeoProcess Complex Inputs sub tab will open on the Search Results panel. This tab shows the datasets that meet the criteria to use as reasonable inputs for the selected process. If the process was added to the system after you began your Web Client session, you need to click Refresh to update the processes list with the most current information. The Refresh button is located in the lower-right corner of the Processes List sub tab. The Refresh button restores the original state of the tree (folds all branches). 2. Fill out the fields in the Input Data section. The exact fields in the Input Data section vary depending on the process that you are trying to execute. The input data requirements are Geospatial Portal User Guide 89

90 determined by the author of the process model when he or she designs it in ERDAS IMAGINE. Specifying the Input Data - The fields at the top of the section are generally the ones where you will indicate the coverages to be processed. When you select a process on the Processes List sub tab, Geospatial Portal automatically filters the coverages that you have access to and identifies the ones that match the constraints established by the process author. Therefore, the coverages are suitable as input for this process. These coverages are shown on the (inputs) tab in the Search Results panel. If there are multiple input fields, the appropriate coverages for each field are shown in separate sub tabs in the Search Result panel. For example, if there are two data input fields, Input Before LANDSAT Coverage and Input After LANDSAT Coverage, each field has its own tab in the Search Result panel. To select a coverage to be the input, select the desired item in the Search Result panel, and then select an appropriate input field name from the combobox in the action bar of the Search Result panel. Specifying Other Process Options - Many of the other fields are simple text boxes in which you can type your information. If you have a field that requires you to specify a color, the field will be accompanied by a button that opens a color picker dialog box. If you have a field that requires you to select a bounding box, it will be accompanied by the Draw Box and Reset buttons. If you click the Draw Box button and draw your bounding box on the map, Geospatial Portal will place the correct values for the box in the field for you. If you are not satisfied with the bounding box settings, you can click Reset to clear the field and start over. 3. When you are satisfied with the settings you entered for the Input Data, click Execute. The My Processes tab opens, and the new process is shown at the top of the list. The Completion field indicates the progress of the process execution. When 100% appears in the Completion field, the execution is complete. The Status field indicates whether the process was finished with success or not. The processes are shown in order from the most recently executed to the less recently executed. 90 Geospatial Portal User Guide

91 The My Processes tab also shows the names, dates, and categories of the executed processes. An URL to the catalog that now contains the images and the images themselves is shown in the Search Results panel on the Outputs tab. The Output tab is opened automatically in the Search Result panel after the geoprocessing is finished successfully. When a process will yield more than one result, each result will be shown on a separate Output tab. The Show result button under the executed processes list allows you to reopen the Output tab for selected process (the same action is performed after double clicking on the process in the Processes list). If you click the Show result button (or double click) for executing a process with a failed status, the button is changed to Get Error, and a separate message box with an error description is opened. Below is the list of executed processes, and detailed information about the inputs and outputs used for the selected process is presented. Clicking Re-execute results in activating the Selected sub tab with all fields filled as previously. Now you can change the selected inputs and re-execute the process without the need of re-filling all the input fields. GeoProcessing functionality is available only when Geospatial Portal is run in apollopro.aspx layout. Geospatial Portal User Guide 91

92 Working with Search Result Panel The Search Results panel shows detailed information about the data that you can access through browsing or searching the ERDAS APOLLO Catalog and for data connected with geoprocessing or the Clip-Zip-Ship process. Search Results also provides different buttons that allow you to perform specific tasks with the found data. The listing for each result displays the name of the result. Each listing also displays certain metadata for each result, including the title, abstract, compatible Web services, acquisition date, SRS, and spatial extent. To see a specific extent for the found data, click the extent hyperlink (Details View only). You could alternatively select one or more search results and choose the Zoom command from the toolbar to change the map range so that it fits to the extents of all selected items. To highlight the spatial extent of the result on the map, move your mouse over the listing. For found Datasets and Business Data, an additional option, File link:open, can be available in the Search Panel. Clicking this option for the selected item downloads the file or opens it automatically in the application associated with the file type. Since portal attempts to open a UNC location, make sure that the access rights to the location are correct. This command can be enabled or disabled by the Geospatial Portal administrator. Data in all tabs can be presented in two different display modes: Details Thumbnails 92 Geospatial Portal User Guide

93 To change the display mode for data presented in the tab, use the View drop-down menu in each tab. When there are too many characters to be displayed in any field in the Search Result panel (for example, Description), the text is shortened, and the [...] designation is added at the end to point out that there is much more information. In such a case, to see the whole abstract, the Index metadata should be displayed. The table below shows the maximum visible text length for particular result fields: Field MaxLength Description 300 Title 80 Name 80 Tags 170 Geospatial Portal User Guide 93

94 Actions Performed on the Search Result Panel Each Search Result tab contains a top-action toolbar with a certain set of action controls either in the form of text buttons or combo boxes. These actions can be performed on the ERDAS APOLLO Catalog data, selected in the Search Result panel. Selected items are indicated by a red, vertical line on the left side. Default possible actions for Geospatial Portal are described below. Add To Map Adds the selected element to the Map Content tab and the map window. You can add more than one result to the Map Content tab and the map window. Selected item or items can be added to the map using different protocols. These protocols are WMS, WMTS, and ECWP. Notice that for some data, the list of available protocols may be limited. In order to add selected items to the map using the desired protocol, open (by clicking the down arrow) the context menu for the Add to map button, and select the protocol from the list. The data will be added to the map with the selected protocols. For OGC WFS services, the option Add as Vector is used to add data from WFS services to the map. You can add an item straight to the map without selecting the protocol by clicking Add to map (without expanding the context menu). In this case, the application determines the best protocol for the selected items. 94 Geospatial Portal User Guide

95 For services such as OGC WMS or OGC WFS, the Register, Display All, and Display Selected commands are available under the Add to map button. The Display All command registers and adds the selected service to the Map Content, while Display selected registers the service and opens the Add to legend dialog box, where you can choose features to be displayed. Metadata The Metadata button on the search action toolbar groups all commands for displaying and downloading metadata for elements from the search panel. Index Metadata Displays, in a separate window, the whole set of coverage metadata for the selected search results. Metadata for each selected element is displayed in a separate tab. ISO Metadata Displays a window containing the original ISO metadata using ISO XML encoding. This document can contain additional metadata. Metadata for each selected element is displayed in a separate tab. Geospatial Portal User Guide 95

96 Download ISO XML Downloads an XML file containing ISO Metadata. Add To Clip-Zip-Ship This action adds the selected items from the Search Result panel to the Clip-Zip-Ship tab, where the Clip-Zip-Ship process can be performed. (For more information, refer to the Clip-Zip-Ship section.) Download Sends a message to the provided address with a link to download the original file. If multiple search results are selected, a separate link for each file to download will be included in the sent message. The address must be entered into the dialog box that appears after clicking Download. This functionality applies only to datasets and coverages. If the file to download exceeds the size of 100 MB, the information that the file is too big to download will be displayed. Zoom You can select one or more search results and choose the Zoom command from the toolbar to change the map range so that it fits to the extents of all selected items. The range is changed to the maximum possible zoom level that maintains each selected result extents in the view. This action works for all search results that have proper extents available. Open with... This command opens selected search results in other third-party applications. The drop-down list contains the available applications in which the selected item can be opened. By default, the options Open in IMAGINE and Open in Google Earth are available, but the list of possible applications may vary depending on Geospatial Portal configuration. For further information about this functionality configuration, contact your Geospatial Portal administrator. Open in IMAGINE This action makes it possible to open selected search results externally in IMAGINE. When performed, you are presented an *.ixp file to be opened directly from the browser in the ERDAS IMAGINE application. Open in Google Earth This action makes it possible to open selected search results externally in Google Earth. When performed, you are presented a *.kml file to be opened directly from the browser in a Google Earth application. 96 Geospatial Portal User Guide

97 Open in Plain Text This action allow to save queries from the Search Result panel to a text file. When performed, a text file containing a direct link to the Apollo Catalog for every selected item in the Search Result panel is returned. This option can be optionally disabled in Geospatial Portal. For more information, contact your Geospatial Portal administrator. Display style & Highlight style You can define the style in which footprints are displayed and highlighted when you move the mouse cursor over a footprint. The display and highlight style for footprints can be changed with the Style dialog box, on which you can define the appearance for a footprint boundary and fill. Footprint style can be defined by parameters such as line (border) width, line (border) color, line translucency, and fill color and translucency. Pattern fills are also applicable. In order to open the Style dialog box for the footprint display style, click the Display style pictogram. To define highlight style, click the Highlight style View pictogram. This option allows you to set the thumbnail or detailed view in the Search Result panel. GeoRSS The results in the Search Result panel can be exported to GeoRSS. By doing so, the resulting GeoRSS resource will represent a feed that can alert you any time a new resource matching that query is registered in the catalog. By pressing the RSS feed icon, two actions are available: Search results as GeoRSS Displays a browser dialog box with a link to the GeoRSS, which can be used in third-party applications and RSS readers. Depending on the Web browser and its components, the functionality, appearance, and behavior of the dialog box may vary. Register as GeoRSS Automatically registers the GeoRSS based on the search results in Geospatial Portal. The GeoRSS is registered with the default refresh setting, and a layer is added to the Map Content. Geospatial Portal User Guide 97

98 Live This option ensures that only elements that cover the actual map range are shown in the Search Result Panel, and the result list is updated automatically during every map move. To protect the server from overloading, the 1,5 second delay buffer is set for all outgoing requests. Click the Live button to enable this functionality. This delay can be configured using the "apollolivedelay" parameter in the WebClient section of the Web.config file. Link For some search result types, such as Datasets, MapLayers, or Vector Layers from Apollo, the links for Access attribute are displayed. The table below shows the link name depending on the link type and action performed after a click. Search result type Link displayed name Action after click FeatureType (vector layers from Apollo) WFS DescribeFeature MapLayer WMS GetLayer Dataset (wmsenabled) WMS GetLayer Dataset (wmtsenabled) WMTS Display WMTS capabilities Dataset (czsenabled) CZS No action Dataset (ecwpenabled) ECWP Display using ecwp plugin Navigating the Search Results Item in the Search Result Panels If there are many results from the search, the results will be shown on different pages. Using the Items per page drop-down list, determine how many results you want to display on the page. The possible values are 10, 25, 50, and 100. The page numbers will be shown along the bottom of the Search Results panel, and you can click on the page numbers to see the results listed on that page, or you can use buttons (Next page, Last page, First page, Previous page ) to navigate between pages. To refresh the Search Results panel, click Refresh. Use to select all results in the Search Results panel; when all results are selected, the button changes to. 98 Geospatial Portal User Guide

99 Icons for Search Results Below is the list of icons for specific search items to be used in the Search Result Panel: Datasets Imagery Vector Document Point Cloud Service Layer Map (WMS) Vector (WFS) Coverage (WCS) Service WMS WFS WCS Geospatial Portal User Guide 99

100 Footprints Footprints outlines showing the data extent for all search results from the current tab are automatically displayed on the map. When a mouse cursor is moved over any item in the Search Result panel, the corresponding footprint on the map is automatically highlighted. Whole footprints must be within view in order to be highlighted (this prevents over-flooding the map window with unwanted highlights). When clicking a footprint on the map, the results get selected in the Search Result panel. While selecting overlapping footprints, the context menu with footprint names will appear where you can check elements to be selected in the Search Result panel. The footprints are not displayed for search result items without geometry. You can define the style in which footprints are displayed and highlighted. The display and highlight style for footprints can be changed with the Style dialog box, where you can define the appearance for footprint boundary and fill. Footprint style can be defined by parameters, such as line (border) width, line (border) color, line translucency, and fill color and translucency. Pattern fills are also applicable. 100 Geospatial Portal User Guide

101 In order to open the Style dialog box for the footprint display style, click the Display style pictogram on the Action toolbar. To define the highlight style, click the Highlight style pictogram. Both pictograms are located on the right side of Action toolbar on the Search Result panel. Geospatial Portal User Guide 101

102 Documents Preview All documents in the ERDAS APOLLO Catalog have their spatial representation on the map and, by default, are marked by a red dot. You can change the display style of the spatial representation of documents using the Style dialog box for footprints display. A preview for the selected document is displayed when you click with the right mouse button on the corresponding dot on the map. The preview for the selected document is displayed in the internal Web browser window. In case there is more than one object at a given location, a menu will be displayed that allows you to select the object (document) to be viewed. This functionality works only for the objects natively supported by Web browsers such as Adobe PDF files, images, and flash. All others not supported by Web browser documents will be downloaded. For some datasets and documents shown in the Search Result Panel, an additional option, File link:open, is available. Clicking this option in the Search Result Panel downloads a selected file or opens it automatically in applications associated with the file type. Since portal attempts to open a UNC location, make sure that access rights to the location are correct. This command can be enabled or disabled by the Geospatial Portal administrator. Documents natively supported by a Web browser will be opened in a separate Web browser tab. 102 Geospatial Portal User Guide

103 Handling DTM Layers from ERDAS APOLLO The DTM (Digital Terrain Model) from ERDAS APOLLO Catalog can be displayed in Geospatial Portal as a texture (flat map) or as a terrain. You can Search Apollo Catalog for suitable items containing height maps using the DTM keyword. Once you have found and added the ERDAS APOLLO DTM to the Map Content, you can change the display mode using the context menu for selected layer (this is active only in 3D mode). To display ERDAS APOLLO DTM as a terrain, select the Display Mode > As Terrain option from the layer context menu. In order to display this data as a flat map (texture) select Dispaly Mode > As Texture. You can use this functionality also for a WMS that does not come from the ERDAS APOLLO Catalog, and the items from APOLLO that were not marked with the DTM keyword are known to be a DTM. In such a case, when you change the display style to As Terrain, you will have to confirm this operation on a message box that informs you that the selected item is not explicitly marked as a DTM. This functionality is available only when Geospatial Portal operates in 3D mode. Geospatial Portal User Guide 103

104 Creating and Saving User Maps and Workspaces Registered and logged in users can save their own map compositions and workspaces. Workspaces and maps are stored in a user profile and are immediately available after user log on, but they also can be saved to a file. A map is a single composition of several layers that may come from different data sources; a workspace can be understood as a container for several maps. The User Maps feature is used to save maps and workspaces within a configuration. To add a Workspace or Map: 1. Click User Maps on the Tools tab. The User maps window opens. 2. In the User Map window, you can add and manage single maps and workspaces (a collection of maps). You can add maps and workspaces as follows: a. Add from the map window: To add a map or workspace from a map window: From the User maps dialog box, Maps/Workspaces menu, select Add > From map. This method lets you save the state of all displayed layers and the extents for all map variants. Save credentials of connected data sources option - If enabled, saves all credentials for authorized services used in a created map or workspace. If the option Save credentials of connected data sources was enabled while creating the workspace or map, Portal will try to load and initialize all services with the credentials saved and used earlier. If the provided credentials fail, an attempt to initialize services as an anonymous user will be made. When another map is added to the existing workspace with the Save credentials of connected data sources option, the credentials will be saved for the whole workspace (even if previous maps have been added to the workspace without credentials). b. Add from an exported file: To add from an earlier exported file: From the User maps dialog box, Maps/Workspaces menu, select Add > From gpm/gpw file. A map file has the.gpm extension, and a workspace has the.gpw extension. The Add command is not available in the context menu for single maps within a created workspace or for single maps in the Maps group. 3. The workspace within a map(s) or a single map is saved and kept in the logged Geospatial Portal user profile. User maps and workspaces can be created for both 2D and 3D map views. Specific 3D view properties, such as yaw, pitch, roll, and height, are held in GPW/GPM files. 104 Geospatial Portal User Guide

105 User Maps and Workspace Functions and Commands: Maps and workspaces have a menu with the following functions and commands: Display Displays selected maps or workspaces. When displaying the workspace, the default (first) map will be shown in the map window and Map Content, but the map selector (drop-down list or buttons depending on the Geospatial Portal configuration) will be populated with all maps from a given workspace. Public Activates the Link function and makes the map public so that it is possible to share it among other portal users. Always make your workspace or map public if you intend to use them in the starting configuration. Link Gives you a direct link to a map that can be forwarded to another user. Also returns the workspace or map ID that can be used in the Administration Console while preparing the starting configuration for Geospatial Portal. Download - Saves the workspace or map to a file. Rename Changes the name of a map or workspace. Remove Removes a map or workspace. Properties Sets such properties as Map ranges, Predefined scales, Scale bands, and Scale ranges Map ranges Map ranges (bounding box) for common coordinate systems are used by the Fit all function. When you display the map and click Fit all, the map area is adjusted to the extent specified in the fields [X min], [Y min], [X max], and [Y max]. Predefined scales Lets you add predefined scales for saved maps. When you display a map with predefined scales, a predefined list appears in the field for changing the scale. You can also give any value of the denominator of the scale in the box. To add predefined scales, select Properties for the map. On the Predefined scales tab, click Add and type a scale denominator. Click Save. Next display the map (by selecting the Display command). A drop-down list with predefined scale options is provided. Scale bands Lets you specify the scale in which different layers of the map will be displayed. To add a scale band, click Add and provide a name for the scale band and scale denominator. You can decide which layers should be displayed in which scale bands. To do this, run the tool for the scale band settings in the Tools toolbar. (See Scale Bands Settings (see "Setting Map Scale Bands" on page 59) for more information.) Geospatial Portal User Guide 105

106 Scale range Lets you specify a range of scales in which the entire displayed map is available, regardless of scale band settings for single layers. Data can only be shown on scales containing values between the minimum and maximum scale that you specify. For a workspace, the Properties command allows you to add/remove the Coordinate Reference System and to define such parameters as axes direction and whether the given CRS is geographic or not. The CRS list in the Coordinate reference system tab corresponds to the coordinate system list on the Settings tab. You can add a CRS or remove a CRS from the Coordinate reference system list by using the Add and Remove buttons. The Add button opens a Spatial Reference System where you can find and add coordinate systems to the list. (See Changing the Coordinate System (on page 146) for more information ). Once the CRS is added for the workspace, the appropriate entries (CRS) appear in the properties for all child maps for the given workspace in the Map ranges tab. Displaying the workspace using the Display command automatically adds the CRS, defined for this workspace, to the Coordinate System list visible on the Settings tab in the Sidebar. User maps and workspaces can be created for both 2D and 3D map views. Specific 3D view properties, such as yaw, pitch, roll, and height, are held in GPW/GPM files. The backward compatibility for handling GPW/GPM files is provided; however, the map view mode is not reflected if a GPW/GPM file from a previous version is used. For example, if the user, being in 3D view, displays a GPW/GPM file created in a previous Geospatial Portal version (GPW/GPM without saved information about the map mode), the map view will not be changed to the 2D view, but the data will be displayed in the 3D view. When working with Apollo.aspx or ApolloPro.aspx layouts, the Geospatial Portal for ERDAS APOLLO coverage services used in workspaces and/or maps checks the following credentials in the order as listed below: 1. Credentials of the active Geospatial Portal user (provided on the Authentication tab). 2. Credentials saved in the workspace or map (in files: GPW, GPM). Passwords stored in GPW and GPM files are secured with the AES Rijndael algorithm. The backward compatibility is maintained, and the use of older GPW files containing unencrypted passwords is also allowed. 3. Credentials of configured default Apollo users specified in the Geospatial Portal configuration (Web.config file). For more information about the configuration of the default credentials that are used when connecting Apollo coverage services from a workspace or map if no other credentials are supplied, contact the Geospatial Portal administrator. 4. If all the above-mentioned credentials failed, then the last attempt to initialize service anonymously is made. When any of the above credentials are correct, the service will be initialized and the data will be displayed on the map and/or in the data window. 106 Geospatial Portal User Guide

107 Printing Maps in Geospatial Portal Printing a map in Geospatial Portal can be performed with any of the connected print services. Due to the difference in the functionality of particular print services, each print service type can provide different parameters to be set on the Print Map dialog box. By default, at least Local Print Service is available within Geospatial Portal. Geospatial Portal does not provide a mechanism for printing a hard copy, but printing to a file can be done. Printing to a file is similar to printing a hard copy, except that it generates a printer file instead of routing the document directly to a printer. This provides a method for generating soft-copy files that can be stored on disk and printed or plotted as necessary without having to be in the application to resubmit the plots. In order to open Print Map dialog: 1. Select the Tools tab from the toolbar. 2. Click the Print Map icon. Topics Using Local Print Service Using Portal Print Service Using External Print Service Limitations on the Printing Functionality Using Local Print Service Local Print Service is a service bundled with Geospatial Portal that allows basic map printing. In order to print a map using Local Print Service: 1. On the Tools tab, click Print Map. 2. The Print Map dialog box is displayed, and a red semi-translucent rectangle appears on the map. The rectangle shows the area to be printed. 3. In the Print Map dialog box, select the following: Common Option tab: Print service Local for the Geospatial Portal internal printing. Format Graphic file type into which the map you are printing will be saved. The PNG file format is available with Local Print Service. Template Print template. One (Local) predefined template is available. Page size Select page size from available sizes in the pull-down list. Orientation Options include Landscape or Portrait. Scale Provide scale for the printed map. Template Options tab: Geospatial Portal User Guide 107

108 DPI Set print resolution in DPI units. Using Local Print Service, the map can be printed with 150 or 96 DPI resolution. The rectangle (printed area) size changes when you change the page size, orientation, or scale. 4. Move the rectangle to precisely select the map area you want to print. 5. Click Print to create the graphic file to be printed. 108 Geospatial Portal User Guide

109 Using Portal Print Service Portal Print Service (delivered with Geospatial Portal) is an extended printing service, compared to Local Print Service. The enhanced template functionality of Portal Print Service provides an extended list of attributes you can set. The differences between the Local Print Service and Portal Print Service are shown in the table below: Local Print Service Portal Print Service Common Options Format PNG PDF ; PNG ; XPS ; GIF ; JPEG ; TIFF ; BMP Template Local ( simple non editable template) Sample landscape template with all data filled ; Sample portrait template with all data filled ; Page size A4 ; A3 ; A5 ; A6 ; A7 ; A8 ; A9; A10 ; B4 ; B5 ; B6 ; B7 ; B8 ; B9 ; B10 ; US Letter ; US Legal ; US Executive A3 ; A4 ; A5 Orientation Portrait ; Landscape Depends on selected template (Landscape or Portrait) Scale Any Predefined scale selectable from the pull down list Template Options DPI 96 ;150 NA Title No Yes Overview map No Yes Display legend No Yes Coordinate system No Yes Date No Yes Details No Yes Legend (user can decide which map layers appear in the legend) No Yes Geospatial Portal User Guide 109

110 In order to print a map using Portal Print Service: 1. On the Tools tab, click Print Map. 2. The Print map dialog box is displayed, and a red semi-translucent rectangle appears on the map. The rectangle shows the area to be printed. 3. Set the map view you want to print in the map window. 4. Set the options on the Print Map dialog box: Common Option tab: Print service Select Portal Print Service (external print service link). Format Offered by the selected template graphic file type in which the map you are printing will be saved. Template Template offered by the service. Page size Page size offered by the selected template. Orientation Print orientation offered by the selected template. (Orientation in Portal Print Service is related to the template and cannot be changed.) Scale Scale offered by the selected template. A predefined scale list is available. Template Options tab: Data provided for attributes listed below will appear on the print. Options offered by the selected template: Address Title Overview Display legend Coordinate system Date Details Legend tab 5. Click Print. The Legend tab is used to select the layers that appear in the printed legend provided that selected elements appear on the map. In case some elements are selected on the Legend tab but corresponding layers are not displayed on the map (turned off in the Map Content), these elements will not appear on the print in the Legend section. 110 Geospatial Portal User Guide

111 Sample output: Geospatial Portal User Guide 111

112 Using External Print Service Geospatial Portal gives users the opportunity to connect and use custom print services. In order to use a custom print service: 1. In the Data Sources tab, use the Define a data source command to register an external print service. In the New Data Sources dialog box, select the Print Service connector and provide the URL link to the service. Then click Register. In the image below, 1 denotes the print service and 2 denotes the data source Type. A new external print service is displayed in the Data Sources window. 2. Set the map view you want to print in the map window. 3. On the Tools tab, click Print map. The Print map dialog box and the translucent rectangle display. 4. In the Print map dialog box, set the options available for the current Print Service. 5. Click Print. 112 Geospatial Portal User Guide

113 Limitations on the Printing Functionality Printing WMS World Map This service restricts image size requests to a maximum of 2001 pixels in width and a maximum of 2001 pixels in height (such big images can be requested when trying to print in high DPI). For image requests that do not conform to this restriction, an exception report is served instead of the image, hence the blank image will appear as a print result. Exception report from the service is as follows: <?xml version='1.0' encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE ServiceExceptionReport SYSTEM " > <ServiceExceptionReport version="1.1.1"> <ServiceException> <![CDATA[ WMS Warning: HEIGHT is restricted to 2001 pixels for this application ]]> </ServiceException> </ServiceExceptionReport> Printing WMS served with scale bands: There are differences in the view of a map in the map window and the resulting print-out. These differences appear when the service layers are served by the service in different scales. Map scale can differ from the scale of a print-out, and in this case, there are differences between the appearance of a map window and the print-out. Printing to PDF Sometimes when printing a map to PDF, the GraphicsMagic convert command may fail because the paths for the files passed to the convert command are too long. Once this happens, the following error is listed in the log file:: ERROR Intergraph.MapPrinting.PrintService.Common.PrintService - Could not find file 'C:\Intergraph\Services\Supporting Services\PrintService\App_Data\Resources\Pdfs\17cb3dc3-dcc c03-6 2bd97d8f25b.pdf'. at System.IO. Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorcode, String maybefullpath) The workaround for this problem is to add quotes to the parameters and to execute the conversion manually in a command prompt: c:\program Files\GraphicsMagick Q16\gm.exe convert -density 96 C:\Intergraph\Services\Supporting Services\PrintService\App_Data\Resources\Pdfs\17cb3dc3-dcc c03-62bd97d8f25b.png EPDF: C:\Intergraph\Services\Supporting Services\PrintService\App_Data\Resources\Pdfs\17cb3dc3-dcc c03-62bd97d8f25b.pdf Geospatial Portal User Guide 113

114 Working with the Data Window and the Clipboard In the data window, you can display feature classes and attribute values for selected data sources (for example: WebMap Publisher, WFS, or PSS). 1. To open the data window, click Data window on the Tools tab. 2. To display data in the data window, from the Classes and queries list, select the items to be added to the data window and click Add. Data in the data window is presented in tabular form. One window of data can contain many tabs with displayed data. Data for one class is presented on a single tab. Each data view lets you: Sort data by selected attribute (column) Hide and un-hide selected columns Change the column size Change the column order Select a number of rows (data records) 114 Geospatial Portal User Guide

115 Use commands from the context menu for each column to sort the data and to select columns to be displayed. Selecting records in the data window will automatically highlight the corresponding objects on the map, on condition that they have been previously displayed in the map window. Depending on the option you select in the Settings tab > For items in select set group, you can do the following: View objects at the current scale View objects in the center of the map window at the current scale Match a view to the selected object and zoom in by a specified value In a data window you can also: Add selected features to clipboard Export all features to a CSV file Export the selected features to a CSV file Show the properties form for the selected feature Geospatial Portal User Guide 115

116 The following functions are grouped at the bottom of data window: Navigate between pages of the data window. Click the arrows or type the required page number in the box. Move selected features to the clipboard. To move the selected feature to the clipboard, select records in the data window, and click Add to clipboard. To refresh the data window, click Refresh. Export data from a data window to a CSV file. To export, click Export all features to a file or Export selected features to a file. For each tab of the data window, buttons to perform the following actions are located in the Action column: Properties - Click to view the feature Properties window. Add to clipboard - Click to add single features to the clipboard. Zoom - Click to zoom to the selected feature on the map. Remove - Click to remove a selected feature from the database of connected service. Applies only to read-write data. For read-only data, this button is not visible in the Action column. For some sources (for example, WFS), you can move features and query results to the clipboard. Features from the data window can be moved to the clipboard individually or in bulk. Data in the clipboard is presented on the Clipboard tab. Records in the Clipboard are grouped in tables. All records from one feature class are presented in one table. The following operations are possible for data in each table: Remove all objects from the clipboard Remove selected objects from the clipboard Export selected objects to a CSV file Export all objects to a CSV file Removing objects: 116 Geospatial Portal User Guide

117 To remove all objects from tables in the clipboard, click Remove all features from clipboard. Buttons used for removing objects are available for each table and can be applied only for data from the common table. To remove data from all tables in the clipboard, click Clear clipboard. To remove single records from a table in the clipboard, click Remove from the clipboard in the Action column. Geospatial Portal User Guide 117

118 Showing Client Location Click Where am I? Tools tab. to show your location on the map. This option is available on the Sharing a Map The Show a link to the map command provides a link that is a reference to the current view of the presented map. To get a link to the map, on the Tools tab, click. 118 Geospatial Portal User Guide

119 Displaying Vector Data on the Map Dynamically The Dynamic Object View function is used for dynamically viewing spatial data served by services such as WFS or EGIS. To display spatial data using Dynamic Object View: 1. On the Tools tab, click Dynamic object view. 2. In the Dynamic object view window, from the Feature class drop-down list, select a feature class which should be displayed. 3. In a Tooltip field, select an attribute which will be visible as a tooltip for the displayed object. 4. Define a style for the displayed objects on the map using the control for changing the style available in the Dynamic Object View window. 5. To display a region with a cable, click an object on the map. To determine how objects are loaded, select one of the following options: Display only features under the mouse cursor Every time you move the cursor on the map, the features are loaded and displayed. Display all features Loads all available features to memory; then the objects are displayed in the chosen location. Geospatial Portal User Guide 119

120 Importing and Exporting Web Map Context (WMC) Use Web Map Context (WMC) to work with WebMap Context XML documents. On the Tools tab, click WMC. A WMC window opens so that you can do the following: Export the current map view to the WebMap Context XML document where WMC information (the content of the map - without coverage) is saved. Only layers for connected WMS services can be exported into a WMC file. Export is performed on the Export tab in the WMC dialog box. Provide the Title, Abstract (optional), and keywords in the appropriate fields on the dialog box, and click Save Map Context in the lower-right corner. Import WMC documents. On the Import tab on the WMC dialog box, provide the path for a file to be imported, and click Load Map Context. Viewing Notification History A single notification is displayed for a few seconds at the time of the event in the bar in the upper-left corner. The Notification log window allows you to view the history of all notifications that occurred during the current session. In order to open the Notification log window, select the Tools tab and click the Notification History Window icon. Three buttons, Errors, Warnings, and Messages, are used to filter the notifications by type. The number of notifications of each type is displayed in the brackets on the button. Displayed logs can be exported to the CSV text file format by clicking Export to CSV. In order to remove all (regardless of the types of notifications that are currently displayed) entries from the list, click Clear log. 120 Geospatial Portal User Guide

121 Working with the WMS Time Parameter The WMS time parameter lets you track the changes to a phenomenon in time and space. In order to connect a WMS service with a time parameter, use the same workflow as for registering the regular WMS service. See Registering Data Source (see "Registering New Data Source" on page 27). To display data from different time periods served by the WMS service with a time parameter: 1. Go to the Time tab on toolbar. 2. Using the slider on the toobar or the calendar, set the time period for which the data should be displayed. Select the Disable option to view only the most recent data served by the connected WMS service. Geospatial Portal User Guide 121

122 Editing Features Geometry This chapter describes all the tools and workflows used for editing the features geometry. All presented workflows are based on a sample PSS service. Tools used for editing vector data are grouped in the Edit tab of the toolbar. To edit vector data provided by the service, ensure that the feature class layer containing features to be edited is checked in the Map Content tab so that it is displayed in the map window. Topics Adding a Feature to the Feature Class Editing Geometry Continuing Geometry Moving Geometry Removing Part of the Geometry Inserting Text Removing Selected Features from the Database Using the Snap Functionality Working with Markers and Annotation Layers Adding a Feature to the Feature Class To add a feature to the feature class: 1. On the Edit tab, select the Insert feature command. 2. In the Redlining box, expand the PSS layer. 122 Geospatial Portal User Guide

123 3. Select any active class to be edited. The appropriate geometry type is selected, and the available drawing method displays. For different types of feature class geometries, the appropriate option is selected: Icon Description Point geometry Linear geometry Surface geometry For point, linear, and surface geometry, the geometry icon is selected automatically and cannot be changed. It indicates only the type of geometry for the selected feature class. For feature classes with a compound geometry type, you can decide which type will be edited by selecting the appropriate icon. Geospatial Portal User Guide 123

124 4. Select a drawing method, and move the cursor on the map. The cursor changes to a cross hair. The available drawing methods are as follows: Geometry Type Point Linear Area Compound Drawing methods Point by point Point by point Point by point All methods are used, depending on geometry type Two - point line Place by rectangle Point, length, angel Width, height, angle Place by rotated angle Arc by start, end, point on edge Circle by center, point on edge Circle by center, radius Arc by start, end, point on edge Descriptions of the drawing methods usage: Point by point Click on the map to insert a starting point. Then click Next to add a vertex for edited geometry, and so forth. Double click to finish. For a point geometry type, click once on the map to add a point. Two-point line Click on the map to insert a starting point. Then double click on the end point. Point, length, angle This method allows for drawing a line from the starting point using length and angle attributes. To draw a line on the map, provide the length and angle for a line in the Attributes form (which appears after selecting this method). After you provide these attributes, a line appears on the map; then move the line to a desired location and double click to insert a feature. Negative values for both attributes can be applied. The units for length and angle attributes are related to the applied coordinate system. Arc by start, end, point on edge - Places arc geometry by clicking in the following order: the arc start point, the arc end point, and a point along the arc. To draw an arc using this method, first click on the map to insert the starting and ending points, and then insert points along the arc. You can continue drawing the next arc geometry. Drawn geometry can consist of any number of arcs. Double click to finish. 124 Geospatial Portal User Guide

125 Place by rectangle Click on the map to insert a starting point; then draw a rectangle. Double click to finish. Place by rotated rectangle To draw a rotated rectangle using this method, first click on the map to insert the starting point (one of the rectangle corners). Then, using the mouse cursor, define the length and angle for the rectangle base (first side of the drawing rectangle). Click to draw the base (first side), and then define the height of the drawing rectangle by moving the mouse. Double click to finish. Width, height, angle This method allows you to insert a rectangle on the map that is described by attributes such as width, height, angle, and starting point. To draw a rectangle using this method, provide the width, height, and angle in the Attributes dialog box. After you provide these attributes, a rectangle appears on the map. Then move the mouse cursor to define the place where the drawn rectangle should be inserted. Double click to finish. Negative values for all attributes can be applied. The units for length and angle attributes are related to the applied coordinate system. Right click to quit the geometry insertion mode. The Attributes dialog box will still be displayed on the map. To close the Attributes dialog box, click the X button. Circle by center, point on edge - Lets you insert a circle and requires the definition of a center point and a radius. To draw a circle using this method, click on the map to insert a center point, and then move the mouse cursor to dynamically define a radius. Double click to finish. Circle by center, radius This method allows you to insert a circle on the map that is described by a radius attribute. To draw a circle using this method, provide the radius in the Radius dialog box. A circle appears on the map. Then move the mouse cursor to define the place where the drawn circle should be inserted. Double click to finish. 5. Click and move your cursor to create any feature. Geospatial Portal User Guide 125

126 6. Double click to end feature creation. The Feature info: FeatureClass1 window displays. 7. Double click the attribute value field to provide an attribute value. 8. Click Insert.The feature is saved. 9. To add other features, repeat the steps above. 10. Right click to end feature creation. The cursor style changes to the hand style. 11. To add another new feature, select the appropriate geometry type icon on the Redlining box. The cursor changes to a cross hair. 12. To edit a feature's attribute value, double click the feature with the hand-style cursor. Feature info: FeatureClass1 displays. Double click an attribute value to edit it. 126 Geospatial Portal User Guide

127 Editing Geometry To edit geometry: 1. Select a feature to be edited. 2. Click Edit geometry ; geometry highlights and is marked with lines and red points. 3. Move the cross-hair cursor to the geometry. Red lines will appear. Move the cursor and click to define a new shape for the geometry. Geospatial Portal User Guide 127

128 4. Move the cursor to one of the red points. The cursor style changes to the link-hand style. Click to display the available editing options, Move point and Delete point. 5. Select Move point to change the point's location. The geometry shape changes. 6. Select Delete point. The point is deleted. 7. Double click to end editing. 128 Geospatial Portal User Guide

129 Continuing Geometry This functionality is available only for geometries of the area type. To continue geometry: 1. Click the geometry to continue. 2. Click Continue geometry. In the map window, the cursor style changes to a cross hair. 3. Create geometry using the steps in Adding a Feature to the Feature Class (on page 122). 4. Move the cursor on the newly created geometry and then on the base geometry. Both geometries are highlighted at the same time. Moving Geometry This functionality allows you to move a single geometry of a feature. It applies to all geometry types. To move geometry: 1. Select the geometry on the map. The geometry is highlighted in green. 2. Click Move Geometry. The geometry highlight color changes to red in the map window. 3. Move the cursor over the geometry, press the left mouse button, and, keeping the mouse button pressed, move the geometry to the new position. Double click to finish. Removing Part of the Geometry To remove a part of geometry: 1. Select the geometry you edited earlier using Continuing Geometry (on page 129). 2. Click Remove part of geometry. Move the cursor to the geometry you added. The cursor style changes to a cross hair, and that part of the geometry will be highlighted. 3. Double click. The added part of the geometry is removed. Geospatial Portal User Guide 129

130 Inserting Text Insert text allows you to insert text on the map. Text on the map can be placed at any angle. The text feature class must be defined before you can insert text on the map. To insert text on the map: 1. Select the Insert text tool from the Edit tab. The Insert text dialog box appears. 2. From the drop-down list, select the text feature class for which your text is to be inserted. Only text feature classes are visible in the drop-down list for the Insert text tool. 3. Type the text to be put on the map in the text field. 4. Provide the text angle in the field next to the text field. The value for the angle is in degrees, and the angle is defined with a clockwise direction. In order to rotate in a counterclockwise direction, use negative values. 130 Geospatial Portal User Guide

131 5. Click on the map to place text on the map. Optionally, provide values for text feature attributes if defined. Click Insert to add text on the map. 6. Click on the Insert text dialog to close the dialog box. Right click to quit from the text inserting mode. Geospatial Portal User Guide 131

132 The font size and color for the text can be defined in Map Content for a displayed layer using the Style properties dialog box. The default text style (for personal service) can be defined when a feature class is created. Removing Selected Features from the Database To remove selected features from the database: 1. Click to select the feature to be removed. Press CTRL + click to select more than one feature to delete. 2. Click Remove selected features from the database. Features will be removed. 132 Geospatial Portal User Guide

133 Using the Snap Functionality The Snap functionality lets you more easily insert features and edit geometry. During creating or editing geometry, elements of the created objects are attached to the objects from the selected feature class so that you can draw objects more precisely. To activate Snap functionality: 1. Click {Snap} to display the Snap toolbar. 2. Expand the PSS layer, and select the feature class which will attach to elements of the created or edited objects. 3. In the Tolerance field, type a distance within which Snap functionality will be active, and check Display with style to determine the style in which the classes will be displayed. To select any object for editing, release the Snap functionality and reactivate Snap after selecting the object. Geospatial Portal User Guide 133

134 Working with Markers and Annotation Layers This feature lets you add, edit, or delete annotations and to add or remove markers. See the example workflows in the sections below. Topics Adding, Editing, or Deleting an Annotation - Sample Workflow Adding or Deleting a Marker - Sample Workflow Adding, Editing, or Deleting an Annotation - Sample Workflow To add an annotation: 1. In the Edit tab, click the Insert marker/annotation button. 2. In the Choose service field, type the created service name Manufaktura. 3. In the Annotations tab Class name field, type Annotation with corner. 4. In the Annotation text field, type Manufaktura. 5. Click Draw annotation, and select two points on the map. A new object is added to the map. 6. In the Class name field, type Annotation with roundings. 7. In the Annotation text field, type parking. 8. Click Draw annotation, and select two points on the map. A new object is added to the map. The result is shown below. 134 Geospatial Portal User Guide

135 To edit annotations: 1. Using the example above, double click the Parking annotation. 2. Change the name to Parking for cars only. 3. Change the class name to Annotation with corner. Annotations Before Change Annotations After Change To delete annotations: 1. Select the line to delete from Manufaktura. 2. Click. The annotation is removed. Geospatial Portal User Guide 135

136 Adding or Deleting a Marker - Sample Workflow To add a marker: 1. In the Edit tab, click the Insert marker/annotation button. 2. In the Choose service field, type the created service name Manufaktura. 3. In the Signs field, drag and drop any sign on the map. 4. On the Pins tab, select any pin and drag and drop it on the map. Signs and pins are added to the map, as shown below. To remove a pin or marker from the map: 1. Select pin or marker. 2. Click. The marker or pin will be removed. Geospatial Portal is delivered with a default set of marker images. New markers can be easily added by placing them in the img\markers directory for a given Geospatial Portal instance. Each new directory will appear as a new tab in the Insert marker window. In the same manner, the default markers can be modified, renamed, or removed. Administrative privileges may be required to perform this task, and access to the img\markers directory on the Geospatial Portal server must be granted. For more information about modifying available marker sets, contact your Geospatial Portal administrator. 136 Geospatial Portal User Guide

137 User Registration and Login Geospatial Portal provides functionality for user registration and login. When you are registered in Geospatial Portal, you have your own profile (folder on the server) that stores user maps. For more information, see User Maps (see "Creating and Saving User Maps and Workspaces" on page 104). User Registration The function for user registration is available in the Authentication tab. After selecting the Register option, you must provide the following data on the registration form: Login Password To register, click Register on the registration form. The software sends you an that contains a link to the registration form. Click the link to complete the registration process. Information about successful account activation appears in a new Web browser window. Depending on administrative settings, the activation of your account using a link sent via may be not necessary. Geospatial Portal User Guide 137

138 User Login To log in, select Login on the Authentication tab. Type a valid user name and password in the Login dialog box, and click Log in. 138 Geospatial Portal User Guide

139 Using the Quality Monitor Feature 1. Launch the Geospatial Portal application. The Quality Monitor tab has three icons: Quality Monitor data window Client view grid Quality Monitor map layer Client view map Quality Monitor admin window Admin view Geospatial Portal User Guide 139

140 2. Open the Quality Monitor Admin window. 3. Click the Add service tab. 4. Provide the following: a. Type the Service name. b. In the Service address field, type the URL with no spaces. The URL must be the same as for Geospatial Portal (so do not use?request=getcapabilities, for example). c. Provide the Service type (for example, WMS). d. Provide the geographic points of the geographic location of this service. 140 Geospatial Portal User Guide

141 5. Click Add. The service is visible on the services grid. 6. Click the Add campaign tab. a. In the Service field, select a previously created service name. b. In the Campaign field, select InspireViewServiceCampaign. c. Click Add. Three new tasks appear on the tasks grid: Availability, Performance, and Capacity. Geospatial Portal User Guide 141

142 7. In the Add task tab, add a single task. a. Select the Service. b. Select the Monitor. c. Type a Task name. If the Historic? flag is marked, the quality monitor framework will perform additional computations for each execution using previous execution results and details. Currently implemented computations rely on counting how many times each execution result value occurred in the past. d. Depending on the monitor type, some additional parameters can be provided. e. Click Add. A new task is visible on the task grid. After scheduling a task, the first results are available according to the Geospatial Portal settings, so results may not appear immediately. 8. Open the User view. 142 Geospatial Portal User Guide

143 a. Enable the map layer by clicking the middle icon: Quality Monitor map layer. b. Open the Last execution summary grid window. The following is an example: The summary tab presents information on how many monitors succeeded and how many were executed. Every execution of each task is counted. Center the map to the point defined when adding the map service. If you click the green cross-hair icon, the map view will be adjusted according to the geographic location of this service (see step 4d in this section). Click the Details icon to see the summary of tasks for the given service. Results for each task, such as Capacity, Performance, and Availability, will be displayed. More detailed information can be accessed in the same way for the given task. Such comprehensive information may contain task parameters, validation reports, and all query parameters used. Geospatial Portal User Guide 143

144 A simple pie chart presents what is marked as "Historic" in Details. It counts the occurrences of each result value. 144 Geospatial Portal User Guide

145 Obtaining Help and Information About Geospatial Portal Click About to display information about the installed version of Geospatial Portal. In order to obtain on-line help for Geospatial Portal, click Guide in the About box. The help displays in an internal Web browser window. Geospatial Portal User Guide 145

146 Changing Geospatial Portal Settings Geospatial Portal users can change the following: Change the coordinate system for displaying spatial data. Change the setting that specifies your screen size in inches. This setting affects the calculation of the scale. Switch on/off the option to revert axes order (Respect axes order). Switch on/off the coordinates visibility. Switch on/off the scale bar visibility. Switch on/off the navigator visibility. Switch on/off the visibility of the cross that indicates the map center. Set the behavior for items in a select set. Customize the Geospatial Portal view in the Web browser window. Change the language. Topics Changing the Coordinate System Setting Items Displayed in the Map Window Customizing the View in the Browser Window Changing the Language Changing the Coordinate System Geospatial Portal displays spatial data in several different coordinate systems. You can change the coordinate system in the sidebar on the Settings tab. By default, the EPSG: 4326 and EPSG: 3857 coordinate systems are available. You can select the SRS from a predefined list or add another one. To add a new SRS to the Coordinate System list: 1. From the Coordinate System list, choose Select SRS. 2. The Spatial Reference Systems dialog box opens and allows you to: a. Select the SRS from the tree list. When the SRS is selected, the Enter SRS identifier field is filled with the appropriate value for the EPSG Code. b. Search for a given SRS. In order to find an SRS, type the EPSG Code into the Enter SRS identifier field and click Search. The search syntax must be as follows: EPSG:nnnn or nnnn, where nnnn is a code number, for example: EPSG:2180 or When a given SRS is found, the tree will be unfolded, and the appropriate item in the list will be highlighted. c. Enter a known SRS if you know the EPSG code for the SRS you want to use. 146 Geospatial Portal User Guide

147 When adding a known SRS (by providing the code), the warning message that a given SRS may not work properly will be displayed. 3. Having chosen the coordinate system from the list or having provided the EPSG code in the Enter SRS identifier field, click Add to list. The selected new SRS will appear on the Coordinate System list in the Settings tab and will be applied immediately. To change the coordinate system: Select the coordinate system from the Coordinate System drop-down list. The SRS will be applied. Geospatial Portal User Guide 147

148 The data can be displayed in the selected coordinate system only when the service that serves this data supports that coordinate system. When the coordinate system is changed and the currently displayed map area is within the range of the new coordinate system, the map area shown in the new coordinate system remains unchanged. This behavior is possible only when there is the possibility of a correct conversion between two coordinate systems and when the displayed data range in both coordinate systems is similar. However, when the currently displayed map area is out of the range defined for the new coordinate system, the area of the map will be adjusted to the range defined in the new changed coordinate system. Settings are reflected immediately. Setting Items Displayed in the Map Window You can set the following Geospatial Portal elements on the Settings tab: 1. To change the parameter value that specifies the screen size (which affects the scale calculation), type a required value for the screen size in the The size of the screen in inches field 2. To turn the coordinates display on or off, click the Show coordinates option. The coordinates are displayed in the bottom-left corner of the map window. 3. To turn the scale bar display on or off, click the Show scale option. The scale bar is displayed in the bottom-right corner of the map window. 4. To turn the navigator display on or off, click Show navigator. 5. To turn the cross-hair display on or off, click Show cross hair. The cross hair indicates the center of a map window. 148 Geospatial Portal User Guide

149 6. To set the behavior for items in the select set, use the following settings, which determine how items are displayed on the map when you select objects in the data window: View at current scale After selecting an item in the data window, a corresponding object on the map is displayed and highlighted at the current map scale. Center at current scale After selecting an item in the data window, a corresponding object on the map is displayed and highlighted at the current map scale, and the object is centered. The map view changes. Fit and zoom out After selecting an item in the data window, a corresponding object on the map is highlighted and zoomed to the value in the field. To restore default settings, click Reset values. You can change all settings except the coordinate system. Settings are reflected immediately. Customizing the View in the Browser Window You can hide elements of Geospatial Portal to give you more map window area. To hide the sidebar, click in the top-right corner. Click to display the sidebar. Use and to hide or display the top banner. Changing the Language Geospatial Portal starts in the same language as the default setting for the Web browser. You can change the language for Geospatial Portal using the drop-down list that contains the available languages. Geospatial Portal is automatically restarted in the appropriate language. You will be asked to confirm this operation. Geospatial Portal User Guide 149

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151 S E C T I O N 3 Working with Geospatial Portal on a Mobile Devices Geospatial Portal can be run on different types of mobile devices. It delivers GIS capabilities and data to a range of mobile devices. Geospatial Portal working on mobile devices provides basic functionality for viewing and analyzing spatial data from different sources. In This Section List of Supported Operating Systems for Mobile Devices Running Geospatial Portal on Mobile Devices Using Geospatial Portal on Mobile Devices List of Supported Operating Systems for Mobile Devices Supported Operating Systems ios 4 Android Android Sample Device iphone 4S ipad 2 Samsung Galaxy Ace Samsung Galaxy SII Windows Phone 7.5 Nokia Lumnia 800 Running Geospatial Portal on Mobile Devices In order to run Geospatial Portal on any mobile device, open the Web browser (for example, Safari) and type the address (for example, to Geospatial Portal. Click Go to start Geospatial Portal. The application detects whether Geospatial Portal is run on a mobile device and is automatically loaded with the mobile layout. Geospatial Portal User Guide 151

152 on a Mobile Devices Using Geospatial Portal on Mobile Devices The main elements of Geospatial Portal on mobile devices include: Map window Where all maps and spatial data is displayed. Tool bar All buttons for mobile Geospatial Portal are grouped on the left side of the screen. Map commutator A drop-down list that contains all available predefined maps. Scale bar Shows the actual map scale. 152 Geospatial Portal User Guide

153 on a Mobile Devices Geospatial Portal works with both landscape and portrait orientation. Simply rotate the device to change the layout orientation. The layout is adjusted automatically. Navigating the Map Tap the screen on the map and move your finger to scroll the map. Dragging your finger to scroll does not choose or activate anything on the screen. Geospatial Portal User Guide 153

154 on a Mobile Devices Simple finger-gesture navigation is not supported on the Windows Phone 7.5 operating system. Changing the Scale Use the Zoom in and Zoom out buttons on the toolbar to change the map scale: Tap to zoom in Tap to zoom out The zoom can be also be performed by using finger gestures, such as a pinch. Simple finger-gesture navigation is not supported on the Windows Phone 7.5 operating system. To restore the default map view (scale and bounding box), tap the Fit all button. Where Am I? Your current location can be displayed on the map. Tap the Where Am I? button to show your location on the map. The center of the map, indicated by a cross hair, will be set to the current user location. The map scale will not be changed. When using the Where Am I function, you may be prompted to allow access to location services. If the location-based services are disabled, the location of the mobile device has been identified and will be suitable for the communication device. 154 Geospatial Portal User Guide

155 on a Mobile Devices Feature Info Feature Info lets you obtain information about the objects displayed on the map. To open the property form for a feature that is selected on the map, click Feature Info. You can then click an object on the map to open its Feature Info form. The Feature Info form is displayed in the entire browser window. To close this form and to go back to the map window, click the form. button, which is located on the lower-right side of the The Feature Info utility returns information for all found objects for each layer in a specified place. If more than one object (from various layers) is found, the information for these objects is presented in separate tabs of the Feature Info window. Geospatial Portal User Guide 155

156 on a Mobile Devices Changing the Maps You can switch between maps using the map commutator that is located in the top-right corner of the map window. You can do this for a given Geospatial Portal map if several predefined start maps are configured and available. To change the maps, click the Map Commutator button. Select a map from the list to display it in the map window. The tick mark (check mark) indicates the map that is actually displayed. Depending on the mobile device, the appearance of the list of predefined maps may vary. 156 Geospatial Portal User Guide