[Qgis-developer] proposing MetaSearch for QGIS Core

Tue May 6 05:23:54 PDT 2014

Hi

+1 From me on this too.

Regards

Tim

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> >> Sourcepole -  Linux & Open Source Solutions
> >> Weberstrasse 5, CH-8004 Zürich, Switzerland
> >> marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch http://www.sourcepole.ch
> >> Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
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