[OpenLayers-Dev] WMSManager beta version

[Tim Schaub]

Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>> If you want to be able to update your catalog, you should also implement transactionnal operators.
>> All this to say it could be the ideal solution but this is a big game.
>>
>>   
> Hi Robert,
> I absolutely don't want to re-implement a complete client for CAT or 
> CSW2. I would be scared about it.
> I'm just trying to do a simple search field to query a/some Catalog/s 
> and retrieve a list of WMS/OWS services with title, description, 
> getCapabilities url, and a link to the complete metadata description.
> In this way it would be easy to add a server to WMSManager (probably 
> soon OWSManager) having the Metadata available.

http://wms-sites.com/search_rss?SearchableText=weather&portal_type=WmsLayer

The only thing "standard" there is GeoRSS.  I guess I should have 
returned the layer name as the <title> - anyway, I could make it more 
convenient if there was a straightforward spec to follow.

Tim