[Geomoose-users] GeoMOOSE searching GeoNetwork metadata

[Kevin Grootendorst]

Good to know, thanks Dan.
So this leads to the question.... do you have a ballpark release date for
GM3?
Cheers, Kevin

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Dan Little <theduckylittle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It depends on what your timeframe is.  One of our design goals was to make
> the dynamic addition/removal of layers from both the map and the catalog
> much easier in GM3.  We're actually trying to keep things like interacting
> with CSW catalogs in mind.
>
> Thus starts what will basically be the next year's of "But we can do that
> in GM3!!!"
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Kevin Grootendorst <
> kgrootendorst at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for this feedback Jim.
>> Would the current GeoMoose version 2.9.2 support this endeavor or have
>> features/functions been deprecated since then?
>> With respect to your second point, my client's GeoNetwork would not be
>> harvesting data from other catalogs, only an internal database.  I foresee
>> less complexity in terms of needing mapfiles generated on-the-fly to deal
>> with projection issues.
>> In hindsight though, do you think that the GeoMoose - GeoNetwork
>> connection was worth your time and effort?  Or do you believe that it makes
>> more sense just to keep the two applications separate?  Given the time and
>> effort involved, I'm torn between the viability and feasibility of this,
>> versus some sort of alternate solution.
>> Cheers,
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:46 AM, James Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I wrote an extension connected GeoMoose to a CSW server (GeoNetwork) for
>>> a project maybe 5 years ago or so.  I had intended to release it but never
>>> got around to cleaning it up enough to not be project specific.  It would
>>> also take some work to bring it up to date with current GeoMoose.
>>>
>>> It was a tab that searched the catalog and then presented the results
>>> with options to view the metadata or if a WMS link was present in the
>>> metadata, add the layer to the map.  A download button would be possible if
>>> it could be derived from the metadata, but don't remember if I had that
>>> working.
>>>
>>> Add to Map required some trickery:
>>> 1) The Active/Visible layers extension was necessary to control the
>>> layers added from CSW.  The regular Catalog tab still works as normal but
>>> didn't know anything about the new layers.
>>>
>>> 2) (And this was the real stumbling block to me finishing the release.)
>>> Because the CSW server was cataloging many off site resources, I had no
>>> control over the WMS servers.  As such many didn't support the projection
>>> used by GeoMoose (at the only commonly available WMS projection was 4326
>>> which looks horrible on screen) so I wrote a ruby-mapscript program that
>>> generated a mapfile for MapServer on the fly (in RAM) that from the
>>> metadata info would connect to the remote WMS, find the best projection
>>> supoorted by the server, if necessary reproject it to the projection uses
>>> by GeoMoose and create a local WMS server that GeoMoose would use.
>>>
>>> On Feb 2, 2017 8:23 AM, "Kevin Grootendorst" <kgrootendorst at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear list,
>>> I'm interested in using GeoMOOSE to ssearch and display layers from
>>> GeoNetwork. A user would be able to query GeoNetwork metadata from within
>>> GeoMOOSE, then have the option to display metadata, add the layer to the
>>> map, or download the layer.
>>> I think I have to implement Catalog Web Services in GeoNetwork and have
>>> GeoMOOSE connect to these web services.  I assume I'll have to write a
>>> JavaScript extension for GeoMOOSE, but JS is not my strength.
>>> Does any one have any insight into how to develop this connection?  I
>>> found a post from years ago that confirmed that the connection is possible,
>>> but there was no additional info.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Kevin
>>>
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