[Qgis-developer] Usability of searches

[Nathan Woodrow]

Yeah it's using SQLite FTS.  I use the same thing in Roam and it works
really well.  The only main suggestion I would add is just index the search
data + fid to lookup. Currently it stores the geometry information at that
point which blows the size out a lot for large data sets.  In Roam I just
went with the id and search data only and most indexes are ~2MB which is
fine for that.

Apart from that we should core it, although I would say make it C++ and
expose it via the API so plugins can just plug it into other maps, etc.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:49 PM, HAUBOURG <
regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr> wrote:

> Ok, looking at the code, it seems to be actually using full text search.
> I will check further why some I had the feeling it was a simple like
> search..
> To be continued..
> Régis
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Yves Jacolin [mailto:yjacolin at free.fr]
> > Envoyé : vendredi 11 mars 2016 10:43
> > À : HAUBOURG
> > Cc : qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> > Objet : Re: [Qgis-developer] Usability of searches
> >
> > R2gis,
> >
> > I know that Denis is open to PR as we (camptocam) worked on his plugin
> in the
> > past. :)
> >
> > Y.
> > On Friday, March 11, 2016 9:36:25 HAUBOURG wrote:
> > > Hi Yes,
> > > Wonderful! I had only tested in first versions, this is so good now!
> > > Maybe we should just improve fuzzy search / full text search
> > > capabilities, (it doesn't bear typos in my tests).. Very nice work
> > > Régis
> > >
> > > > -----Message d'origine-----
> > > > De : Yves Jacolin [mailto:yjacolin at free.fr] Envoyé : vendredi 11
> > > > mars 2016 08:58 À : qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org Cc : HAUBOURG
> > > > Objet : Re: [Qgis-developer] Usability of searches
> > > >
> > > > On Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:16:06 Régis Haubourg wrote:
> > > > > Paolo Cavallini wrote
> > > > >
> > > > > > Does anyone have a good example of the UX from other software we
> > > > > > could adhere to?
> > > > >
> > > > > The best UI for search is the simplest.. Google does that well :).
> > > > > A simple text widget, and filtering options in the results (facets
> > > > > /
> > > > > coloring) is enough I think. All the intelligence must be in the
> > > > > indexing full text search engine IMHO, not in the UI.
> > > > >
> > > > >  Why not a bar, just like command line bar of Processing + a
> > > > > shortcut
> > > > >
> > > > > to raise it ?
> > > >
> > > > Régis, All,
> > > >
> > > > QuickFinder does it like this. Denis is the main author of this
> plugin.
> > > >
> > > > It can plug to osm, internal layer and GeoMapfish. You can even add
> > > > more search engine to it.
> > > >
> > > > Y.
> >
>
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