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ArcGIS 10.3 for INSPIRE release notes

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This topic describes how ArcGIS 10.3 for INSPIRE aligns with the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) regulations and includes a list of new features and known limitations for this product.

What's new in ArcGIS 10.3 for INSPIRE

ArcGIS 10.3 for INSPIRE introduces the following enhancements:

  • Support for Annex II, Land Cover, and Geology data themes (vector data component) from data model implementation and documentation to the respective view and download service implementation.
  • The geodatabase templates installation process is now modular: Annex I, Land Cover, and Geology geodatabase templates can be installed either separately or in combination. This provides organizations with more deployment options—for example, an organization can now deploy the Geology theme only instead of the entire geodatabase template. The advantage will be more evident with implementation of many additional data themes.
  • Land Cover and Geology geodatabase templates
    • Use datasets to better organize content
    • Designed to leverage geodatabase relationships and ArcGIS REST services and applications
    • Documented and organized separately to facilitate the management and identification of features and tables associated with a specific data theme
  • INSPIRE Discovery Service and Geoportal
  • Enhancements and major fixes
    • Preferred coordinate transformations defined in the map document are honored in view services.
    • Improved support and configuration of HTTPS and ArcGIS site with multiple GIS machines.
    • Removed REST filter dependencies for INSPIRE Services in the ArcGIS for INSPIRE Server Extension installer.
    • Fixed: Problems with using BBOX in download service requests with INSPIRE CadastralParcels.
    • Fixed: KVP binding issues in WMTS-based view service.
    • Fixed: Feature download service fails when the geodatabase includes raster data.
    • Fixed: Drawing error when the view service is using WMS layer names that include special characters.
    • Fixed: Download service issue Protected Sites – Ramsar.
    • Fixed: Cust Ref #88584—Unknown error reading the next row of a GDB cursor (SQL Server).
    • Fixed: Make prefix and namespace fields required field for as-is feature download service.

Standards and conformity features included in ArcGIS 10.3 for INSPIRE

General

  • Aligns with ArcGIS for Server system architecture
  • Multilingual support for all components: INSPIRE network services, administration/configuration pages, and ArcGIS for Desktop INSPIRE tools
  • Administration/Configuration user interface (UI) within ArcGIS for Desktop (ArcCatalog) and ArcGIS Manager (web)

INSPIRE view service

  • Implementation of INSPIRE view services following the Technical Guidance for the Implementation of INSPIRE View Services version 3.11
  • Support for the GetFeatureInfo operation returning an INSPIRE-conforming GML response on INSPIRE layers
  • Support for Web Map Service (WMS) profile as described by Technical Guidance View Service 3.1
  • Support for WMTS profile as described by Technical Guidance View Service 3.1
  • Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) support for Annex I INSPIRE layers
  • Support for INSPIRE style (SLD based) and custom style (ArcMap .mxd)
  • ArcMap INSPIRE tools for analyzing INSPIRE-compliant geodatabase layers, allowing you to immediately add those to your map document
    • Combined knowledge about INSPIRE data models and Esri geodatabase implementation
    • Create relates and joins automatically
  • Automatic support for all relevant INSPIRE reference systems
  • Support for all capabilities/metadata extension elements
  • Display of INSPIRE layers in capabilities metadata; hides "technical" geodatabase layers
  • Layer scale dependencies support (see )

INSPIRE feature download service

  • Implementation of INSPIRE feature download direct access service following Technical Guidance for the Implementation of INSPIRE Download Services (version 3.1) based on OGC Web Feature Service 2.0
  • Full support of INSPIRE data models and GML output
  • Feature server configuration for geodatabase and INSPIRE XML schema models
  • OGC WFS 1.1.1 and 2.0.0 interface
  • Ability to create store queries and GetFeature through stored queries (if enabled by the administrator)
  • Ability to manage stored queries (if enabled by the administrator)

INSPIRE feature download service: predefined dataset service

  • Implementation of INSPIRE feature download predefined dataset service following the Technical Guidance for the Implementation of INSPIRE Download Services (version 3.0)
  • The functionality to execute stored queries specified by the user as an extension to the feature download service

INSPIRE discovery service

  • Implementation of INSPIRE discovery services following the Technical Guidance document 3.1
  • Improved metadata editor supporting validation and editing of unbounded multiple instances of metadata elements

INSPIRE Annex I data models—geodatabase template implementation

  • Esri geodatabase XML schema for INSPIRE Annex I data themes
  • XML/HTML documentation on geodatabase structure

INSPIRE Annex II data models—geodatabase template implementation

  • Esri geodatabase implementation and documentation for INSPIRE Annex II Land Cover theme (LandCoverNomenclature, LandCoverVector schema).
  • Esri geodatabase implementation and documentation for INSPIRE Annex II Geology theme (Geology schema).

Known limitations

View service: GetFeatureInfo on mixed layer documents

Description: An INSPIRE view service GetFeatureInfo request on more than one query layer, which includes both INSPIRE layers and non-INSPIRE layers, returns the response regarding INSPIRE layers only.

View service: use of INSPIRE SLD files

  • Description: INSPIRE data specifications contain visualization rules that cannot be expressed in SLD documents (see ProtectedSites layers).
  • Solution: If ArcGIS for INSPIRE does not find an SLD document for a specific layer, it will use the defined ArcMap visualization rules for both the INSPIRE_COMMON:DEFAULT style and default styles.

View service: WMTS-based view service capabilities

  • Description: The direct link to the language-specific capabilities document available in the REST services directory returns the default language (e.g., http://my agsserver:6080/arcgis/rest/services/AnnexI/AB/MapServer/exts/InspireView/WMTS/FRE/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml).
  • Solution: Use the language parameter to access the language-specific capability document (e.g., http://my agsserver:6080/arcgis/rest/services/AnnexI/AB/MapServer/exts/InspireView/WMTS/FRE/1.0.0 /WMTSCapabilities.xml?language=FRE).

INSPIRE geodatabase: profile of names and text strings

  • Description: The INSPIRE data specification Geographical Names allows the implementation of a simplified profile of the complex data type GeographicalName. For many cases, a simple implementation is sufficient and requires a significantly less complex model and database representation.

    In the standard geodatabase template for the Annex I themes, the simplest profile, a text string, has been implemented. For datasets that require support for a more complex profile, contact Technical Support.

    Similarly, string-valued properties are limited to 255 characters in the standard geodatabase for the Annex I themes. This should be sufficient for most datasets. For datasets that require support for a longer text value, contact Technical Support.

INSPIRE geodatabase: arcs in cadastral parcel features

  • Description: In the theme Cadastral Parcels, nonlinear interpolations are allowed (circular arcs). In this release, only geometries with linear interpolations in accordance with the Simple Feature standard (ISO 19125-1) are supported.

ArcCatalog configuration page of INSPIRE services displays a black square

  • Description: In rare cases, when invoking the INSPIRE service extension configuration page of ArcCatalog, the panel displays a black square.
  • Solution: Use the program JavaConfigTool program to disable DirectDraw. The tool can be found at: <installation>\ArcGIS\Desktop10.1\Bin\JavaConfigTool.exe.
    1. Uncheck Use default.
    2. Add the string -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true to the text field Java VM arguments.
    3. Click OK.
    4. Restart ArcCatalog.

Running ArcGIS for INSPIRE view service on a file geodatabase with administrative boundaries

  • Description: The previous release of ArcGIS for INSPIRE introduced a way to dynamically qualify layer definition queries with schema and user name if such a query contains references to other tables. An example of such a query is as follows:
    "IFCID IN (SELECT RID FROM {0}auAdmBoundaryL_nationalLevel where nationalLevel = '5thOrder')"
    The placeholder string {0} will be replaced with a qualifying string when creating an ArcMap layer. As file geodatabases do not need a qualifying prefix, the placeholder will be replaced by an empty string. The software does not recognize this on service startup and won't enable this layer as an INSPIRE layer.
  • Solution: Do not run ArcGIS for INSPIRE AdministrativeBoundary layers on your file geodatabase or update the definition query by replacing the {0} placeholder in your file geodatabase. The following LayerInfo table entries are affected:
    AU.AdministrativeBoundary.1stOrder
    AU.AdministrativeBoundary.2ndOrder
    AU.AdministrativeBoundary.3rdOrder
    AU.AdministrativeBoundary.4thOrder
    AU.AdministrativeBoundary.5thOrder
    AU.AdministrativeBoundary.6thOrder
    The value of field def_query should be the following:
    "IFCID IN (SELECT RID FROM auAdmBoundaryL_nationalLevel where nationalLevel = '1stOrder')"
    "IFCID IN (SELECT RID FROM auAdmBoundaryL_nationalLevel where nationalLevel = '2ndOrder')"
    "IFCID IN (SELECT RID FROM auAdmBoundaryL_nationalLevel where nationalLevel = '3rdOrder')"
    "IFCID IN (SELECT RID FROM auAdmBoundaryL_nationalLevel where nationalLevel = '4thOrder')"
    "IFCID IN (SELECT RID FROM auAdmBoundaryL_nationalLevel where nationalLevel = '5thOrder')"
    "IFCID IN (SELECT RID FROM auAdmBoundaryL_nationalLevel where nationalLevel = '6thOrder')"

Feature download service: download data not included in the .mxd file

  • Description: Administration of Predefined Dataset Service entries currently only works with ArcCatalog instances running on the same machine as ArcGIS for Server or in those environments where ArcCatalog has access to the geodatabase connection file defined in the service definition. When publishing the feature download service, two stored queries are created by default to facilitate simple download of a predefined dataset, through stored query urn:x-ii:def:query:OGC-WFS::GetDatasetByCrs, even though the capability response only lists those layers that are available for download, and it does not list other layers in the database. However, if the user knows the database, it is possible to download data that is not included in the .mxd file but in the same database through the service.
  • Solution: The current workaround is to delete the default stored query and create your own customized query.

WMTS service legend URL different from that used by ArcGIS WMTS

  • Description: Currently, the INSPIRE WMTS service capability legend URL refers to the default INSPIRE style, while the WMTS service tile generation is based more on ArcMap symbology and does not recognize the INSPIRE default style. This leads to an inconsistency between WMTS map symbology and the legend URL in the capability response.
  • Solution: The current workaround is to customize the WMTS map symbology and tile generation to use the default INSPIRE style; the legend URL can also be customized.

INSPIRE download service requires an enterprise geodatabase

  • Description: Currently the INSPIRE download service requires an enterprise geodatabase such as Oracle, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL. It does not work with file geodatabase.
  • Solution: Use an enterprise geodatabase such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server.

INSPIRE feature download service stored queries cannot be configured if ArcCatalog cannot access the service definition files

  • Description: INSPIRE feature download service stored queries cannot be configured if ArcCatalog cannot access the service definition files.
  • Solution: The workarounds include using shared folders (UNC path) or opening the WFS interface (temporarily or permanently) to create and drop queries. The second option is to use standard WFS 2.0.0 web-based operations, for example:
    • To list storedquery, use http://server:6080/arcgis/rest/services/servicename/MapServer/exts/InspireFeatureDownload/service?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=2.0.0&REQUEST=ListStoredQueries.
    • To drop storedquery, use http://server:6080/arcgis/rest/services/servicename/MapServer/exts/InspireFeatureDownload/service?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=2.0.0&REQUEST=DropStoredQuery&STOREDQUERY_ID=urn:x-ii:def:query:OGC-WFS::GetDatasetById1.
    • To create a stored query, you can use an HTTP post client, and specify a post URL (e.g., http://server:6080/arcgis/services/servicename/MapServer/InspireFeatureDownload) and storedquery text to create a stored query.

Atom download service get spatial dataset operation is redirected to the wrong URL when using ArcGIS Web Adaptor

  • Description: When using the Web Adaptor, you may experience that the URL returned from the get spatial dataset operation for the ATOM download service is incorrect, specifically the prefix section of the URL.
  • Solution: The workaround is to copy the downloadable file into the Web Adaptor domain, make it available (e.g., http://webadaptordomainname/myfile.zip), update the dataset ATOM XML accordingly, and republish the service.

Layers in Geology data theme do not include a predefined symbology

  • Description: The symbology utilized for Geology data theme layers by view services is the one defined in the map document.
  • Solution: Use the map document authoring options to implement the INSPIRE symbology.