[OpenLayers-Dev] WMSManager beta version

[Lorenzo Becchi]

Tim, Lance thank you for feedback.
I'm actually studying CSW2 and hope that Ticheler will have time for me 
next week to choose the simplest syntax from KVP encoded request to ask 
for a set of WMS servers (or layers) and which minimum set of metadata 
make sense to respond from a CSW2 point of view.
I guess that Zool could help a lot too but I want to disturb nobody 
until I don't have a clearest idea. So maybe never ... ;-)

I still don't know if it makes much more sense using CSW2 to retrieve 
server addresses or directly their layers. A WMS server can offer very 
different layers in typology and extent, then can offer a long list of 
layers and a user can feel disoriented understanding which layer is the 
one he searched for.

I'll surely let you know what I'll discover

ciao
Lorenzo



Tim Schaub wrote:
> 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.





Lance Dyas wrote:     
>> 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
>>
>> 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 ;-)
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