GeoService Finder
GeoService Finder helps you find existing geographic services and
software relevant to Minnesota and share geographic services and
software that you have created.
What are geographic services?
- Internet applications that display maps
- On-line services that
developers can use when creating new applications (for example, a geocoding
engine or an image server)
- Software components (such as a development template for
Minnesota MapServer)
Find
The GeoService Finder database can be accessed in a number of ways.
Browse
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Title : alphabetic listing of
services in the catalog
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Topic: thematic categories (i.e. Environment, Health...)
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Type: Resource type (i.e. Online service, Software components...)
Search
- Free text: Basic record search
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Advanced: Search by Title, abstract, service type and extent
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Full: Search by all fields
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Share
If you develop or support geographic services or software and would like to
make them available to the larger community:
- First browse or search the catalog for examples of the types of
resources it contains.
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More information is available to help you
decide if your software or service is appropriate to include.
Collection Guidelines hide
- Has the software or service already been entered into the Catalog? If so,
we would like to avoid redundant entries.
- Do you have the right to list and distribute the software or service?
- Does the software work? Has the software or service been fully tested so
that it is largely bug-free?
- Is this a final production version? GeoService Finder is not intended to
list test or development versions. Software and services can, however, have
multiple releases with updated and added features.
- Is the software or service something that others would want and can use?
Does it apply beyond a single organization?
- Is this just advertising or promotion of a product, service or entity? It
is OK to list software and services for which there is a license or use fee.
- Do you have enough information about the software or service to create an
accurate entry in the Catalog?
- Is there documentation that accurately describes the software or service?
We suggest that full documentation should be accessible through a link you
provide from your Catalog entry.
- For software, is there adequate internal documentation within the code so
that a relatively average programmer could understand the logic and flow?
- If multiple components are necessary to run the software, will all the
components be available so that they can be acquired? Is the code
self-contained?
- If this is a data distribution service, is it original data? We hope that
there will be a single source for any specific data set.
- Are the people to be named as contacts ready, able and willing to receive
and address questions about the software or service?
- Register and log in to fill out a brief form describing the service or application.
Register and log in
- Register: Create your own user account in three easy steps.
- Log in: Already have an account? Sign in to GeoService Finder.
