The developers of the XD-Solutions at the Cubic Corporation are currently developing a web-based proxy server for the GeoNode to allow a specific group of users to send requests and receive responses from the GeoNode. The following are some of the issues we encountered so far.
1. Missing tabs on the GeoNode pages when accessing from other machine. When requesting GeoNode pages from local host, everything looks like it's supposed to be. However when accessing from other machine, we noticed some tabs were missing, such as Explore Maps and Create Maps tabs were absent from the home page of the GeoNode. We tried the suggestion of using the actual IP address of the machine instead of localhost for the SITEURL in settings.py, the problem remains. 2. The GeoNode can't upload projection information. It only upload .tif data. The GeoNode does not include the projection information such as .tfw. Jeff Johnson from OpenGeo.org has filed this as a bug/feature request against geonode recently. 3. Using the gdal utility tool, the GeoTiff data was translated to include the projection information. But the resulting image of using the translated data did not appear very clear. Jeff Johnson had used the gdal command line utilities and created a new .tif with the projection information included. We uploaded the new data, and the GeoNode page showed a not-so-clear picture. 4. For the WCS request for GeoTiff(getcoverage), we were told we can do it in a browser, or 'curl' or 'wget' it. If via the browser, the string to be typed is long and is prone to the typos when doing so. Is there a plan in the future for people in the OpenGeo.org to add an interface to the page so the WCS request can be done by a point/click action? Thanks for all the ideas for resolving the issues. Best Regards, Amy Ma
