Map's currently have a "Contact" metadata field which is just a short text field.
It occurs to me that this will soon be obsolete as map's have owners with their own contact fields. I'm working on the map metadata workflow lately. Any advice on where to look for info about to hook this up appropriately? We don't have a UI spec for this, but I would imagine the following would make sense (maybe Rollie can comment on them): - We remove the Contact metadata field - When the map is saved, the metadata form does _not_ have a Contact field available. - Maps have a primary author (or point of contact?) which is tied to the user model - The Map Info page shows the user associated with the map (and the contact information associated with that user, in a later iteration) The difficulty with scoping this feature is that it involves tying together some of the very oldest (Map Composition) and very newest (User management and permissions) features. I'm worried about how we can have GeoNode 1.0 adequately bridge between these two aspects, even though it's not been supported by a particular contract and so hasn't been specified thoroughly. Any ideas on how to move forward? My own inclination is to try to put *something* together, and revisit it later once we have some user feedback. -- Sebastian Benthall OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
