[OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing

[Tyler Mitchell]

> In order to keep track of the data I would like to use some automatic
> indexing to create a data catalog.
> 
> The idea is to cycle through all folders and sub-folders and create a
> catalogue which shows:
> * basic data (projection, extend)
> * attribute table columns
> * data preview
> 
> I found two solutions:
> * SpatialDataCataloguingScript at
> http://code.google.com/p/spatialguru/wiki/SpatialDataCataloguingScript
> 
> => this works well after some fixing.
> But how do I best use the generated XML file?

Nice to hear that you found the script and got it to work!  I'd love to see what fixes you applied and would roll them into the official code. 

How you use the resulting xml brings up a good question.  How did you envision using the metadata results?  

My plans were to build a gui and simple query system next.  But ultimately I want a tool in my desktop GIS to allow quick browsing and loading of certain layers easily.

There are some hacks in there that can output sql or csv if you need something simpler.

Tyler