1. Co-funded by the
Community programme
eContentplus
T.6.1 Regional implementations
Manolis Viennas, GEORAMA, Greece
Vienna, 17th
May 2010
Viennas@Vienna
GEORAMA

2. GEORAMA Contribution
Content:
• Western Greece Municipalities GIS Systems

3. Current State in Greece
Digitization is currently an on going project…
Data Details:
• In doc & paper format
• Currently used by Desiders & Technical Personnel
• Metadata is under construction or in some cases there
is no Metadata
• Language is Greek
• No use of Web Catalogue Service(CSW)
• No WMS (Web Map Service), WFS (Web Feature
Service), WCS (Web Coverage Service)

4. GIS Systems
• Patras Municipality GIS information system will be
finished in 2010
• Are currently being developed (ArcGIS)
• We are in close collaboration with the municipality in
order to:
• help them based on best-practice results from
Plan4all
• GIS system to be made INSPIRE compliant
• be ready for the next step
• provide at least parts of the available-to-be
information

5. Compare GIS Systems
Type
Discovery Services =
Catalogue
View and downloading
services = WMS & WFS
Open Source Geonetwork
UMN Mapserver, GeoServer,
GeoHosting (extension of
Mapserver), deegree
Commercial solution
Micka, terracataloge,
Geoportal Extension
(ESRI)
ArcSDE, ArcGIS Server /
ArcIMS, GeoMediaWebMap
• http://www.osgeo.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_geographic_
information_systems_software

6. Georama GIS Systems
Georama
• GeoServer – http://georama.org.gr/geoserver/
• GeoNetwork – http://georama.org.gr/geonetwork/
we are currently publishing sample data
View and downloading services = WMS, WFS
Discovery services = compliant with the OGC
specifications for querying and retrieving information
from Web catalogues (CSW).

7. Technological Architecture
Users
ArcGis SHP
Users Metadata
XML
Internet
Firewall
GeoServer &
GeoNetwork
Portal
Plan4all
Web Server
WMS
WFS
CSW
WCS
Internal DMZ Services
External
WMS

8. Hardware and Software
Server
Intel Xeon, 2 CPUs, 4 Gb RAM
Software
Operation System: Windows Server 2008 or Ubuntu 10.04
Database : MySql 5.1

9. GeoServer

10. GeoServer WMS Preview

11. ArcGIS Explorer using WMS

12. GeoNetwork Metadata

13. GeoNetwork Harvesting

14. Dissemination
Accepted Conference Paper:
“Interoperability and Design issues of Spatial Data
and Geographic Information Systems”,
to be included in the IEEE Xplore and Conference
Proceedings of PCI 2010 - 14th Panhellenic Conference
on Informatics, accepted, to be presented,
10-12 September 2010, Tripolis, Greece

15. Thank You
Contact us at: plan4all@georama.org.gr