Géoportail de la Wallonie

Metawal CSW Catalogue Service

OGC Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW 2.0.2) exposing Metawal, the catalogue of metadata about Walloon geographic resources, used by the Géoportail catalogues and the European INSPIRE portal.

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Documentation
https://geoportail.wallonie.be/CSW

Other Resources

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GetCapabilities
https://artifacts.apis.io/wallonie-be/openapi/wallonie-be-metawal-csw-capabilities.xml
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CSW
https://metawal.wallonie.be/geonetwork/srv/fre/csw?service=CSW&request=GetCapabilities
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APIsJSON
https://artifacts.apis.io/wallonie-be/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: wallonie-be:metawal-csw
name: Metawal CSW Catalogue Service
description: OGC Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW 2.0.2) exposing Metawal, the catalogue of metadata
  about Walloon geographic resources, used by the Géoportail catalogues and the European INSPIRE portal.
humanURL: https://geoportail.wallonie.be/CSW
baseURL: https://metawal.wallonie.be/geonetwork/srv/fre/csw
tags:
- OGC
- CSW
- Metadata
- INSPIRE
properties:
- type: GetCapabilities
  url: openapi/wallonie-be-metawal-csw-capabilities.xml
- type: CSW
  url: https://metawal.wallonie.be/geonetwork/srv/fre/csw?service=CSW&request=GetCapabilities
- type: Documentation
  url: https://geoportail.wallonie.be/CSW