[QGIS-Developer] What to do with WMS Server Search

[Tom Kralidis]

+1 to remove Server Search (and thanks to Sourcepole for supporting it
for so long) and point to MetaSearch's default CSW list.  If we want a
dedicated CSW, perhaps we can consider the geopole.org CSW server as
a default endpoint in MetaSearch of sorts.  Or stand up a QGIS community
CSW like https://csw.qgis.org dedicated to QGIS itself.

Note that with the evolving OGC API efforts MetaSearch will be upgraded
to support the next generation OGC API - Records (read new CSW), and
will be able to leverage both current and future OGC APIs.

Having said this, a key issue is maintenance and freshness of content
(harvesting, scraping resources, etc.).

..Tom


On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 5:50 PM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi Alex
>
> Thanks for looking at this.
>
> On 20 Jan 2020, at 10:10, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi devs,
>
> while checking open issues I have found one about WMS Server Search
> functionality https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/25660.
>
> It is about Server search tab in the "Add WMS/WMTS layer" dialog. This
> search tab uses configurable catalog URL which by default is set to
> Sourcepole's
> server. According to Pirmin, this catalog didn't get many updates since
> years.
> Also we now have a MetaSearch plugin which is our "new" way to search
> for OGC services.
>
> What we should do with WMS Server Search? In the ticket there are two
> options
> proposed:
>
> 1. remove WMS Server Search completely and put a hint suggesting user
> to use MetaSearch plugin
> 2. remove default catalog URL from the QGIS settings and show WMS Server
> Search tab only when user have entered an URL
>
>
> I prefer option 1,and removing the Server search -  it is a long time ago
> that I looked at it, but IIRC it is not using any OGC standard for the
> search right?
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Alexander Bruy
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