[OpenLayers-Dev] WMSManager beta version

[Lance Dyas]

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.
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> 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.
> You put a search string: "forest occurrence"
> You maybe have a checkbox to block the research to your map extent.
> Submit the query and play with the parsed response.
>
> is this feasible from a Catalog point of view?
>
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>> In my mind, for the particular needs of retrieving some WMS servers URLS and their capabilites, we could rely on something much simpler.
>> The example already given here : http://www.microimages.com/wmscatalog/request.cgi? sends XML output. I was wondering if this output was somewhere standardized ?
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> http://www.microimages.com/wmscatalog/request.cgi
> has no Metadata and it's close to be useless, IMO. I'm scared about that 
> list.
>   
hehehe dont be afraid...currently it is a free form implementation
http://www.microimages.com/wmscatalog/specifications.htm
but will graduate to an official catalog some day
> Who wants to try all those servers to see what they have inside?
>   
> What happens if the list goes over a thousand records?
> - long time to download it
> - hypnosis after 10 lines reeding
> - :-)
> maybe I'm kidding but Metadata are very important to me.
>   
ask for new features... I will log the request we have one of our 
programmers doing it...
and he is very speedy ;-)