[OpenLayers-Dev] WMSManager beta version

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Robert, thanks for your feedback
> Yes I believe it's the right way to go... If we had somewhere a central repository of WMS servers (eventually with their capabilities cached on it), WMSManager could request it, eventually on various criteria (for example given a current viewbox ?), it would just have to implement a request protocol and response processing (does exist an OGC one ? Could it be about "registry" ?)
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> This repository could be cooperative, if you know a server which isn't on the list you could put it on, just like web2 "social sites".
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> Currently I'm maintaining my own list on del.ico.us  (see http://del.icio.us/rrpro/wmsserver)
> But of course it's just a flat list of links. The same thing with OGC-aware processing functions would be wonderful. 
> Just dreaming...
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An OGC Catalogue Service (CAT) [1] interface should be the best solution 
IMO.
Thanks to Schuyler and Chris that are updating the cgi proxy it will be 
easier to add servers on the fly to WMSManager.
I'm studying the way to do the CATManager and all feedbacks about it are 
precious.
It is important to remember that a OWS resource without Metadata means 
quite nothing. That's why the CAT make sense. A good example is FAO 
GeoNetwork [2].
I would like to make a minimal interface to CAT for a generic user. If 
you have examples to show and suggest, I'll be pleased to have a look.

ciao
Lorenzo


[1] http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cat
[2] http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home