GI-go Wiki Pages

Overview

GI-go is a graphical client developed to easily demonstrate the capabilities of the GI-cat catalog service. User make distributed queries based on common search criteria (where, when, who, what) and gets metadata results from a variety of data sources. Data preview and download is also supported.

The latest versions of GI-go are below listed for download. Stable versions are recommended for reliability in a production system. Beta versions contain the latest features and bugfixes and are recommended for testing and evaluating GI-go. Alpha versions are available only to GI-go developers for internal tests.

Download

Download snapshot 9.1-beta-4 (2011-12-06)

This is the latest stable version of GI-go.

Highlighted features:

• simplified query interface
• guess feature in config manager
• improved overview editor
• OAI/PMH Accessor
• Speed optimization & Lower memory footprint
• Distributed search on a variety of data sources:
  • WCS 1.0, 1.1
  • WMS 1.3.0, 1.1.1
  • WFS 1.0.0
  • SOS 1.0.0
  • CSW 2.0.2 Core, AP ISO 1.0, ebRIM/CIM, ebRIM/EO, CWIC
  • THREDDS 1.0.1, 1.0.2
  • GeoNetwork 2.2.0, 2.4.1
  • Deegree 2.2
  • OpenSearch
  • GENESI RDF OpenSearch
  • ESRI Geoportal 10
  • CDI 1.04, 1.3
  • GI-cat 7.x, 8.x
  • GI-axe
  • GBIF
  • GeoRSS 2.0
  • GDACS
  • OAI-PMH 2.0
  • NetCDF 1.4
  • WPS 1.0.0
  • NCML-CF
  • NCML-OD
  • ISO19115-2
  • SITAD

Try it:

• As a stand-alone application: download the platform independent ZIP bundle, unzip it and launch appropriately (see the README for instructions)
• Java Web Start application distribution is IN DEBUG STAGE.
  • Start GI-go! (9.1-beta-4 version for Web Start) RELEASED IN DEBUG STAGE (in case you experience problems, please rollback to the ZIP bundle version)

Please note that GI-go requires Java SE 6 (at the latest update). You may need to download and install it. GI-go is tested on the latest Sun JVM update, on Windows and Linux, and on the latest Apple JVM update, on MacOS.

For more information on GI-go you may also read the Quick User Guide.

If you think you have found a bug, or for any other comment, please contact us: your feedback is higly appreciated!

Download stable 9.0.2 (2011-08-05)

This is the latest stable version of GI-go.

Highlighted features:

• Improved WCS Accessor
• SOS Accessor
• CSW/CWIC Accessor
• THREDDS Accessor (complete restyling for speed)
• THREDDS/NCISO Accessor (complete restyling for speed)
• THREDDS/NCISO Accessor (complete restyling for speed)
• Speed optimization & Lower memory footprint
• Distributed search on a variety of data sources:
  • WCS 1.0, 1.1
  • WMS 1.3.0, 1.1.1
  • WFS 1.0.0
  • SOS 1.0.0
  • CSW 2.0.2 Core, AP ISO 1.0, ebRIM/CIM, ebRIM/EO, CWIC
  • THREDDS 1.0.1, 1.0.2
  • GeoNetwork 2.2.0, 2.4.1
  • Deegree 2.2
  • OpenSearch
  • GENESI RDF OpenSearch
  • ESRI Geoportal 10
  • CDI 1.04, 1.3
  • GI-cat 7.x, 8.x
  • GI-axe
  • GBIF
  • GeoRSS 2.0
  • GDACS
  • OAI-PMH 2.0
  • NetCDF 1.4
  • WPS 1.0.0
  • NCML-CF
  • NCML-OD
  • ISO19115-2
  • SITAD

Try it:

• As a stand-alone application: download the platform independent ZIP bundle, unzip it and launch appropriately (see the README for instructions)
• Java Web Start application distribution is IN DEBUG STAGE.
  • Start GI-go! (9.0.2 version for Web Start) RELEASED IN DEBUG STAGE (in case you experience problems, please rollback to the ZIP bundle version)

Please note that GI-go requires Java SE 6 (at the latest update). You may need to download and install it. GI-go is tested on the latest Sun JVM update, on Windows and Linux, and on the latest Apple JVM update, on MacOS.

For more information on GI-go you may also read the Quick User Guide.

If you think you have found a bug, or for any other comment, please contact us: your feedback is higly appreciated!

Use cases

This section provides use cases and short tutorials to illustrate common tasks using GI-go.

Access datasets discovered from a CSW and served by a WCS

GI-go Configurations

You can test GI-go with a preconfigured set of services. Please visit the endpoints page to download a configuration from a selected list. A detailed guide to import the EUROGEOSS configuration is available here.