Tyler Mitchell had a follow-up post to that original post, that's also very relevant: http://spatialguru.com/ideas/data_cataloguing_background
And there were some related discussions last May in the GeoNetwork list: http://n2.nabble.com/SMET-(Spatial-Metadata-Extraction-Tool)-td2020014.html But those may be going off in a different direction. Cheers, -Emilio Mayorga On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kralidis,Tom [Ontario] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's a post which may help: http://spatialguru.com/code/xml_catalogue_format > > ..Tom > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] on behalf of Jonathan Greenberg > Sent: Wed 11-Feb-09 16:50 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [gdal-dev] Open source GIS cataloging software? > > Sorry for the cross-posting. I was wondering if anyone has a unix > (preferably) or windows program that can spider a directory, recursively > searching for raster and vector data, and create bounding box polygons for > each raster/vector it finds, with attributes indicating the path-to-file. > > -- > > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > Postdoctoral Scholar > Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) > University of California, Davis > One Shields Avenue > The Barn, Room 250N > Davis, CA 95616 > Cell: 415-794-5043 > AIM: jgrn307, MSN: [email protected], Gchat: jgrn307 > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
