ALASpatialLayers

NOTE: Due to licensing issues, we currently only support WMS externally (to the ALA), not WFS or WCS. We will support WFS and WCS when layers in the library move to a Creative Commons license.

WMS Services

http://spatial.ala.org.au/geoserver - our primary geoserver instance

http://spatial.ala.org.au/geoserver/ows?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities - WMS GetCapabilities request

http://spatial.ala.org.au/geonetwork - our master geonetwork instance hosting layer metadata records and biological collections-level metadata not able to be hosted by the data provider. At some point, we may incorporate (link/download/sync) externally hosted metadata to enable GeoNetwork web services.

http://spatial.ala.org.au/layers - listing of all available ALA spatial layers (including metadata subset and links to external metadata records)

http://spatial.ala.org.au/layers.csv - csv representation of ALA layers

http://spatial.ala.org.au/layers.json - json representation of ALA layers

http://spatial.ala.org.au/layers.xml - xml representation of ALA layers

http://spatial.ala.org.au/layers/?q=cars - example search

WMS Clients

You can use a WMS client such as uDig or OpenLayers to connect and render layers from geoserver.

Species Data

Species data does not correlate directly with layers stored in geoserver, instead the WMS layers are generated dynamically from a spatial index. Example usage and documentation is available at SimpleWMSExample.

Analysis Layers

Note that layers starting with species or aloc are layers generated as part of user created prediction and classification.