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Title of an observation offering

Provides a best practice regarding encoding of a short description of an offering in Sensor Observation Service (SOS) getCapabilities.

SOS Software clients would like to have a human readable title for an offering ( e.g. to present metadata to a user in a web portal). This could be done by providing a  short description in the gml:description element. Since SOS is moving forward towards having only one system permitted per offering, then it makes sense to provide the English label of the system. Two examples are presented from NOAA SOS server:

One Station:

.. 
<ObservationOffering gml:id="station-42012">
        <gml:description>Orange Beach AL Buoy</gml:description>
        <gml:name>urn:x-noaa:def:station:noaa.nws.ndbc::42012</gml:name>
...

All  Stations:

...
<ObservationOffering gml:id="network-all">
        <gml:description>All stations on the NDBC SOS server</gml:description>
        <gml:name>urn:x-noaa:def:network:noaa.nws.ndbc::all</gml:name>
...

 

 

 

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