[Qgis-developer] proposing MetaSearch for QGIS Core

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi all: looks like feedback is positive overall.  Is there any
advisory on how to move this forward?

Thanks

..Tom


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:29 AM, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
> +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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>>> Qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
>>
>>
>>
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>> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
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>> marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch http://www.sourcepole.ch
>> Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
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