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<p>Hi Paulo,</p>
<p>(Heading offtopic here)<br>
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<p>I think a QGIS plugin for GeoSeer would be extremely useful and
is definitely something I've considered. If done properly it would
<i>greatly </i>improve the process of adding OGC services to QGIS
and immeasurably improve the process of finding and adding them
...<br>
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<p>...but it's an issue of funding. GeoSeer has no adverts because
web-adverts are Bad(tm) - I morally disagree with them - so
GeoSeer currently costs me money to run, and that's ignoring my
considerable time cost to develop and maintain it! Remember, this
is an ongoing service, not a one-time-develop thing. The business
model behind making it self-sustaining is the (new!) API to search
the database ( <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.geoseer.net/api.php">https://www.geoseer.net/api.php</a> ), and this is
paid-for. A QGIS plugin could easily use this API - that's what
it's designed for - but as noted, the API is meant to be paid-for.</p>
<p>So if a plugin were used, it would either need some sort of
ongoing funding to use the API, or users would have to buy their
own API keys to use with the plugin, or I'd have to provide it
free like I do with the web-search. While I'd like to do the free
option, you can't pay rent with good-will.</p>
<p>Until I figure out a solution to this conundrum, and/or someone
offers me funding for it, and/or the PSC wants to discuss it, I
figure the free
yes-really-not-even-selling-your-personal-information-like-google-does
web search is a good starting point for users. I'm very open to
suggestions for how to make it possible.<br>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Jonathan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-05-13 08:31, Paolo Cavallini
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Agreed, thanks.
Perhaps a QGIS plugin to search Geoseer db directly would be useful?
Cheers.
On 13/05/19 09:22, Jonathan Moules wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi Paulo,
The problem with default links is:
* They go out of date quickly
* They're probably not what the user wants.
* There are a lot of them: I have over 180,000 services in my database
* There are too many even just global - of the 1.2 million layers in my
database, 68,922 claim via their bbox to have fully global coverage.
* A list of titles doesn't really tell you what's in the service.
Shameless plug: This is why I developed GeoSeer - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https:www.geoseer.net">https:www.geoseer.net</a>
- to make these services discoverable.
As requested I've create a ticket for its removal:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://issues.qgis.org/issues/22059">https://issues.qgis.org/issues/22059</a>
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 2019-05-13 06:52, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Good point Jonathan. Do you have any useful server, possibly of global
coverage, to suggest? Could you please open a ticket about this?
Thanks.
On 13/05/19 01:36, Jonathan Moules wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi list,
Question - What is the purpose of the "Add Default Servers" for WMS? I
ask because the servers are all demo servers and have no meaningful data
- they're good for development purposes but useless to the end users.
Also (ironically) - the QGIS Demo Server doesn't work I get "Service
Unavailable".
Cheers,
Jonathan
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