A demonstration version of the SmartSea Marine Spatial Planning tool is available. The tool is mostly in Finnish. The tool can also be used in the national map projection of Finland, with the benefit of national background maps. However, currently we're not aware of good marine oriented background maps in this projection.
The demonstration is about the usage of the tool for rule-based selection of areas suitable for a use of marine space.
It also includes a small demonstration of fetching the planning data from a WCS (web coverage server). The results of a WCS can be used for complex modeling and analysis, as it often contains more information (from GeoServer User Manual). Using WCS would remove the need to upload data for more direct access of the tool. In this case the WCS is a experimental server set up by the Velmu project in Syke.
The workshop was held Sept 21 in Pori, Finland in the SmartSea General Assembly. The workshop introduced the Carl Steinitz' concept of spatial design and showed how the developed tool could be used in it.
The browser based analysis client is mostly aimed at viewing the data and testing rules for uses. The native mode (where the data is) of the app is ETRS-TM35
| Projection | Not authenticated | Authenticated |
|---|---|---|
| ETRS-TM35 | open | open |
| Web Mercator | open | open |
The browser based planning client is in testing
| Projection | Not authenticated | Authenticated |
|---|---|---|
| ETRS-TM35 | not available | not available |
| Web Mercator | not available | open |
QGIS plugin for SmartSea is installed like this: go from menu Plugins -> Manage plugins -> Settings -> add URL http://msp.smartsea.fmi.fi/plugin/plugin.xml and you should be able to add SmartSea plugin. It adds one button into a toolbar. Pressing the button gives you a similar plan->use->layer tree as in the web client.
It is not possible to edit the rules in QGIS as in the web client. That is because QGIS does not let one load unadvertised layers as OpenLayers does. The returned layer is always the "official" version.