[Geodata] Landcover-DB Shapefile Download

[Stefan Keller]

Pls. look perhaps also at this thread from Raj about a - yet to be defined
- CSW profile
http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/dclite4g/2007-October/000006.html .

Take also into consideration that CSW harvesting in GeoNetwork (GN) is not
finished yet and a main programmer of GN wrote by end of september that
OAI-PMH "outperforms CSW harvesting on all aspects.". The "state of
metadata" is currently less than desirable because even OGC seems to be
divided into several groups besides CSW, namely ebRIM.

This having said, I'm not against any software - GN looks good! - nor any
OGC spec. (CSW could make it but what's the advantage over a WFS profile?).

I'm concerned mainly about a common metadata model and then about the
protocol (harvesting vs. online-query?). So let's just do what serves our
needs.

-- Stefan

2007/10/8, Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com>:
>
>
> > Martin Spott wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I know, this topic surfaces at least once a month - see Frank W.'s
> >> posting "Data migration" or David B.'s recent FOSS4G summary of open
> >> issues "Themes and Direction from FOSS4G".
> >>
> >
> > ....  not to forget Lorenzo B.'s recent request of a "OSgeo Catalogue",
> >
>
> thx, Martin
>
> data.freemap.in is a good place to store metadata easily.
>
> anyway, I still think that a CSW interface is needed more then ever
> because it's OGC compliant.
> I still think we should try to use OGC standards and if they don't fit
> our needing, give a hand to make them better.
>
> I hope to have the time to help Telascience guys to set up a demo with
> GeoNetwork.
> I would like to develop a thin CSW client for OpenLayers, it should not
> be that difficult.
> :-)
>
> ciao
> Lorenzo
>
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