ArcGIS
Service Deployment Using ArcGIS Server for WMS/WFS services
If you are deploying a OneGeology WMS, please visit: http://onegeology.org/wmsCookbook/home.html for more detailed requirements. For AASG naming conventions, please visit this link
Creating WFS / WMS capabilites using ArcGIS service publishing wizard
When deploying a web service using ArcGIS publishing service, there are a few specifics that need to be considered when constructing the WFS and WMS Capabilites in the ArcGIS deployment wizard. This post is geared toward publishing a service for the AASG Geothermal Data Project, but the following practices are similar when deploying any USGIN-specification services using ArcGIS publishing products.
In the ArcGIS service publishing wizard or "Add New Service" wizard, you will be promted to choose Capabilities. Capabilites for both WMS and WFS are provided in AASG Geothermal Data Project services.
WMS
How to Create a Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) using Arc2Earth
If you decide to use GeoServer to deploy your Web Services, you will find that part of the process includes creating an SLD or Styled Layer Descriptor for portrayal of the data you intend to publish. A natural symbology for such layers is an ESRI layer file format. Using this format initially presented a problem, though; creating an SLD for data with a complicated symbology scheme, such as a geologic map, is not trivial using XML editing software-- even if you have a template to work from. Many times, conversion from RGB to Hexidecimal is required for each entry in your symbology layer. Even if one uses a built-in formula converter in Excel (or from various websites), a large amount of hand entry is still required.
SDE-Trickery and Awesomeness: Data Transformations Behind-The-Scenes
Imagine that you collected geographic data in one schema and you want to provide it in some other schema. For many of us, this only happens pretty much all of the time.
For example, maybe your organization has an enterprise database which stores all the information that you have about recent, active faults. Now you want to provide that data as a WFS service with fields that conform to the ActiveFaults template being used by the AASG Geothermal Data System. Perhaps you store all your geologic map data in such a database and you want to convert it into FeatureClasses that fit into NCGMP09-style geodatabases.
Here's a nice way to convert your data formats in such a way that you only have to do it once. You can continue to make changes to your data just like you always have, and there will always be a featureclass hanging out there in the new schema which conveys the most up-to-date information that you have. The pre-requisites are:
