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.
Download
Download GI-go 6.2-beta-1
To try the latest beta version of GI-go, with the latest features available, visit the
Beta Version Page.
Reports are specially welcomed for this version, including bug reports and general feedback. You can fill a report directly from the application.
Download GI-go 6.1.1 (2009-12-24)
This is the latest stable version of GI-go, containing the
latest features.
Highlighted features:
- Improved stability and bugfixes
- Distributed search on a variety of data sources:
- WCS 1.0, 1.1
- WMS 1.3.0,
1.1.1
- WFS 1.0.0
- CSW 2.0.2 Core, AP ISO 1.0, ebRIM/CIM, ebRIM/EO
- THREDDS 1.0.1,
1.0.2
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Accessors for GeoNetwork (tested with versions 2.2.0 and 2.4.1) and deegree (tested with version 2.2) catalog services
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OpenSearch accessor
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GENESI RDF OpenSearch accessor
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Download and visualization of XML metadata
- CDI 1.04, 1.3
- GI-cat 5.x, 6.x
- GBIF
See the
Release Notes for a detailed history of the implemented improvements, along with known bugs/limitations.
Try it:
- As a stand-alone application: download the platform independent
ZIP bundle, unzip it and launch appropriately (see the README for instructions)
- As a Java Web Start application ( Mac users: launching from a 32-bit browser may fail, because the MacOS version of Java SE 6 is 64-bit only; saving the links below and double clicking should work around the issue):
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.