GeoNorgeAPI

C# API for communicating with GeoNorge.no through the CSW Service

Getting Started

To install GeoNorgeAPI, run the following command in the Package Manager Console:

PM> Install-Package GeoNorgeAPI

Example code

using www.opengis.net;
using GeoNorgeAPI;

public class MyClass {
    public void MyMethod() {
        GeoNorge api = new GeoNorge();
        SearchResultsType result = api.Search("flomsone");
        Console.WriteLine(result.numberOfRecordsMatched + " metadata found");
    }
}

Security

From version: 2.1.1 (07.04.2014)

The API is using SSL to communicate with www.geonorge.no. Use your credentials like this to perform Insert/update/delete operations:

GeoNorgeAPI.GeoNorge api = new GeoNorgeAPI.GeoNorge("myusername", "mypassword");

MD_Metadata_Type metadata = new MD_Metadata_Type();
// ... add information to the metadata object
var transaction = _geonorge.MetadataInsert(metadata);
Console.WriteLine(transaction.TotalInserted + " metadata inserted.");

Credentials can be acquired from your Geodatakoordinator at Kartverket.

SimpleMetadata

The MD_Metadata_Type is quite large and complex since it is based on the ISO 19139 standard. This project contains a wrapper SimpleMetadata that does all the heavy lifting and manipulating of the MD_Metadata_Type object for you!

Example of use of SimpleMetadata

using GeoNorgeAPI;

GeoNorge api = new GeoNorge("myusername", "mypassword");

SimpleMetadata simpleMetadata = SimpleMetadata.CreateDataset();
simpleMetadata.Title = "This is my dataset!";
simpleMetadata.Abstract = "This is the abstract telling you everything you need to know about this dataset.";
simpleMetadata.ContactPublisher = new SimpleContact
{ 
    Name = "John Smith", Email = "nothing@example.com", Organization = "My organization", Role = "publisher" 
};

SimpleMetadata now contains a MD_Metadata_Type that looks like this when serialized to XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<gmd:MD_Metadata xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:csw="http://www.opengis.net/cat/csw/2.0.2" xmlns:gco="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gco" xmlns:srv="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/srv" xmlns:gts="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gts" xmlns:gmd="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd">
  <gmd:hierarchyLevel>
    <gmd:MD_ScopeCode codeList="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/resources/Codelist/ML_gmxCodelists.xml#MD_ScopeCode" codeListValue="dataset" />
  </gmd:hierarchyLevel>
  <gmd:identificationInfo>
    <gmd:MD_DataIdentification>
      <gmd:citation>
        <gmd:CI_Citation>
          <gmd:title>
            <gco:CharacterString>This is my dataset!</gco:CharacterString>
          </gmd:title>
        </gmd:CI_Citation>
      </gmd:citation>
      <gmd:abstract>
        <gco:CharacterString>This is the abstract telling you everything you need to know about this dataset.</gco:CharacterString>
      </gmd:abstract>
      <gmd:pointOfContact>
        <gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty>
          <gmd:individualName>
            <gco:CharacterString>John Smith</gco:CharacterString>
          </gmd:individualName>
          <gmd:organisationName>
            <gco:CharacterString>My organization</gco:CharacterString>
          </gmd:organisationName>
          <gmd:contactInfo>
            <gmd:CI_Contact>
              <gmd:address>
                <gmd:CI_Address>
                  <gmd:electronicMailAddress>
                    <gco:CharacterString>nothing@example.com</gco:CharacterString>
                  </gmd:electronicMailAddress>
                </gmd:CI_Address>
              </gmd:address>
            </gmd:CI_Contact>
          </gmd:contactInfo>
          <gmd:role>
            <gmd:CI_RoleCode codeList="http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/Codelist/ML_gmxCodelists.xml#CI_RoleCode" codeListValue="publisher" />
          </gmd:role>
        </gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty>
      </gmd:pointOfContact>
    </gmd:MD_DataIdentification>
  </gmd:identificationInfo>
</gmd:MD_Metadata>

The MD_Metadata_Type can be inserted into GeoNorge by using the API like this:

var transaction = _geonorge.MetadataInsert(simpleMetadata.GetMetadata());

The SimpleMetadata wrapper has methods for all fields that is required to be compliant with INSPIRE.