On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Chris Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds good to me - I'm quite in to automatic creation of metadata. > > One thing we could consider is making a shapefile.xml - the ESRI metadata > format thing. I think we should still have the request.txt, but could also > auto populate a metadata file with some of the same information. > > Ultimately what I'd be interested in is a way to more effectively populate a > shapefile.xml. In GeoNode we store a lot of metadata and give users a way > to edit it all through the web, along with extracting from their user > profile. We use GeoServer for all our shapefile generation, so it'd be nice > to be able to get it to also produce a shapefile.xml.
Yeah, I guess it would be possible to leverage each feature type title, abstract, keywords, srs, bbox to generate a little xml file. But we would be stuck using known to GeoServer metadata, wouldn't we? Unless someone adds extra params to point to external metadata sources. I found this about the file shp.xml file contents: http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.2/index.cfm?TopicName=Metadata_standards_and_the_ArcGIS_metadata_format which seems to imply there are many possible structures for this file. > But that's obviously not immediately relevant to this, so +1 on these > changes, though agree it could be nicer to be in one file. Cool Cheers Andrea ----------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime Senior Software Engineer GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584962313 fax: +39 0584962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
