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Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009Show full title

Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Network Services

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2.GET VIEW SERVICE METADATA OPERATION

2.1. Get View Service Metadata Request

2.1.1. Get View Service Metadata Request parameters

The Get View Service Metadata Request parameter indicates the natural language requested for the content of the Get View Service Metadata Response.

2.2. Get View Service Metadata Response parameters

The Get View Service Metadata Response shall contain the following set of parameters:

  • View Service Metadata,

  • Operations Metadata,

  • Languages,

  • Layers Metadata.

2.2.1. View Service Metadata parameters

The View Service Metadata parameters shall at least contain the INSPIRE metadata elements of the View Service.

2.2.2. Operations Metadata parameters

The Operation Metadata parameter describes the operations of the View Service and shall contain as a minimum a description of the data exchanged and the network address of each operation.

2.2.3. Languages parameters

Two language parameters shall be provided:

  • the Response Language parameter indicating the natural language used in the Get Service Metadata Response parameters,

  • the Supported Languages parameter containing the list of the natural languages supported by this view service.

2.2.4. Layers Metadata parameters

The metadata elements listed in Table 3 shall be provided for each layer.

Table 3
Metadata elementsDescription
Resource TitleThe title of the layer, used for human communication, for presentation of the layer, e.g. in a menu
Resource AbstractLayer abstract
KeywordAdditional keywords
Geographic Bounding BoxThe minimum bounding rectangle in all supported Coordinate Reference Systems of the area covered by the layer
Unique Resource IdentifierThe Unique Resource Identifier of the resource used to create the layer

The layer specific parameters listed in Table 4 shall be provided for each layer.

Table 4
ParameterDescription
NameHarmonised name of the layer
Coordinate Reference SystemsList of Coordinate Reference Systems in which the layer is available
StylesList of the rendering styles available for the layer.
A style shall be composed of a title and a unique identifier
Legend URLLocation of the legend for each style, language and dimension pairs
Dimension PairsIndicates the supported two dimensional axis pairs for multi-dimensional spatial data sets and spatial data sets series

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