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

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all.
I also agree. I'd think twice before setting up an ad hoc service. As you mention, maintaining it will be a challenge.
Cheers.

On 21 January 2020 03:12:42 GMT+04:00, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>+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?
>>
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