[Qgis-developer] proposing MetaSearch for QGIS Core

[G. Allegri]

+1 from me too.

giovanni

PS: The italian national catalog (RNDT) was recently added to the plugin
thanks to a proficous dialog netween some people in the italian gfoss
mailing list and the national agency.


2014-04-04 17:24 GMT+02:00 Marco Hugentobler <
marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch>:

> Hi
>
> It will be great to have CSW functionality in QGIS out of the box!
>
> Regards,
> Marco
>
> On 04.04.2014 15:30, Tom Kralidis wrote:
>
>> tl; dr: we are proposing MetaSearch for inclusion into QGIS core, to
>> help the discovery (download/add, find/bind) workflow in QGIS. There
>> are Python dependencies and build workflows that need to be
>> discussed/resolved, but overall we believe it's a good time to start
>> this discussion.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Devs: as per https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/wiki/QGIS-Core-
>> Integration,
>> I'd like to discuss the possibility of integrating the MetaSearch
>> Catalogue Client into QGIS as a core plugin.
>>
>> To quote Tim (Sutton):
>>
>> `tomkralidis: btw it would be great to see the CSW client made ready
>> to go into QGIS core one of these days - its a missing piece from our
>> 'out of the box OGC compliance'`
>>
>> Plugin: http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/MetaSearch/
>>
>> Notes:
>>
>> - supports the badly-in-need publish/find/bind SDI workflow, allowing
>> users to discover data/services and add them to their map
>> - OGC services are seamlessly supported for dynamic add layer dialogues
>> - over 1300 downloads in the last 6 weeks from plugins.qgis.org
>> - interest across multiple organizations and countries (development,
>> pull requests, documentation, feature requests/enhancements/bug
>> reports, translation, etc.)
>> - documentation: currently Sphinx, hosted on GitHub, translated on
>> Transifex
>> - extensible, future work will include additional APIs (OpenSearch, etc.)
>> - initially forked from the excellent CSWClient work by NextGIS
>>
>> Dependencies:
>> - user: https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/
>> requirements.txt
>> - developer: https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/
>> requirements-dev.txt
>> - managed in https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/
>> pavement.py#L60
>> - OWSLib is a hard requirement
>> - I'd be willing to move off Jinja2 (HTML templating) and pygments
>> (Syntax highlighting) in favour of something already in QGIS; these
>> are self contained in
>> https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/plugin/
>> MetaSearch/util.py#L55
>> and https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/plugin/
>> MetaSearch/util.py#L103,
>> if there are easy alternatives already supported in the QGIS Python
>> environment
>> - I'm not familiar with QGIS development/build workflow/etc., so I'm
>> not sure how the dependencies are/will be handled. Does/will QGIS have
>> a Python package dependency strategy?
>>
>> Build/packaging:
>> - uses Paver to build, package, bundle and upload to plugins.qgis.org
>> - **dependencies are bundled with the plugin in isolation**
>> - how does/would this look in a QGIS build?
>>
>> Issues:
>>
>> - UI: thanks to Anita, Tim and others on UI comments and development
>> in Vienna last week.  We are working on these in master branch
>> currently
>> - default connections file: there is interest in organizations
>> publishing their CSW to this list as a means to have it default in
>> QGIS. Current process at
>> https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/wiki/MetaSearch-
>> Default-Connections-List.
>>   We have Travis CI setup to always test the default connections so the
>> list does not become stale over time (as well as pep8 checks, etc.)
>>
>> I hope this provides enough of an overview to move the discussion forward.
>>
>> Thanks for consideration.
>>
>> Tom Kralidis, Richard Duivenvoorde, Angelos Tzotsos,
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>
>
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