The AODN open geospatial portal is a Grails application for finding, visualising, and downloading geospatial data. The application integrates with the GeoNetwork metadata catalog and OGC Web Map Services.
You can view the portal in action at the following locations;
- AODN the main AODN portal
- IMOS the Integrated Marine Observation Systems portal
- WAODN a Western Australia-focused portal
Please post any questions in our forum.
- Faceted search for easy navigation of datasets.
- Animation controls such as pause, fast-forward, etc.
- Configurable themes and splash page.
- Save and share data visualisations.
- Subset and aggregate multiple datasets into a single file for download.
- Filter data before download.
- OpenID authentication.
- Advanced spatial search that ensures results have features in the region of interest. Not just a bounding box intersection.
Firstly we welcome contributions so please feel free to fork the project, address any issues or add features and submit a pull request.
If you want to build from source you will need to have Grails installed on your build machine.
Once you have the source it should be as simple as $ grails war in the root folder where you have checked out portal
then deploy the war to your application server.
Feel free to ignore the pom.xml, this is an old artifact from when we used Maven as our build tool. We now use the Grails tooling directly to build our artifacts. We have a dependency on Maven to launch our Jasmine, we are in the process of removing that dependency, you can help with that too
Yes, you can download it here.
You can also write to us, info at emii dot org dot au to discuss the best way of getting portal and keeping your version up to date.
You can fork portal and have your configuration included in your code base however portal offers the ability to specify
your configuration externally via an environment context variable named aodn.configuration you can clone an
example AODN config here and modify as required. The example should be
descriptive enough to get you up and running however you can always shoot questions at us via our contact email.
Certain config items can be overridden by setting environment variables appropriately when running in development mode, e.g.:
$ WFS_SCANNER_URL="http://10.11.12.13/wfsscanner" grails run-app
The full list of overridable configuration items is:
- DATA_SOURCE_URL
- DATA_SOURCE_USERNAME
- DATA_SOURCE_PASSWORD
- WMS_SCANNER_URL
- WFS_SCANNER_URL
Portal has a few collaborating applications that you may also want to deploy
If you want to mimic the AODN portal searching capabilities then you should consider deploying an instance of spatial search note that spatial search has a dependency on a specific minimum version of GeoNetwork. If you cannot deploy at least that version then you should consider not using spatial search for performance reasons and using GeoNetwork directly for spatial extent searching. Note that at time of writing this means that your results may not be as fine grained as available via spatial search.
Read the Getting Started guide on the wiki