Good stuff Gabriel. As you noted the geosearch extension never really worked
since how the google indexing worked was pretty opaque. Sounds like a great
improvement.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Gabriel Roldán <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is just a little notice that I'm about to commit a revamp of the
> geosearch extension soon, later today or tomorrow morning, so if anyone
> has a concern this would be the time to speak up.
>
> The rationale is that Google changed the way it indexes kml sitemaps. In
> the past, it liked them to address specific placemarks and hence the
> geosearch extension produced deep sitemaps down to actual features.
>
> But the way it works now, and that has more chances to get crawled and
> assigned high rates, is that the kml pointed out by the sitemap should
> be some sort of "metadata kml document", meaning it should contain the
> layer's title, abstract, may have some sample placemarks and/or bounding
> box, and link back to the actual data.
>
> By the other side, the sitemaps generated by the geosearch module were
> broken since GeoServer 2.0.x (not sure about the exact version but way
> in the past), in the sense that the urls it generated, besides the
> toplevel sitemap.xml, lead to 404 http errors, so there's actually no
> geoserver sitemap that could be crawled.
>
> Another reason why the geosearch extension was not working is that the
> sitemap it published lived under /rest/sitemap.xml. That is, it is not
> possible to access it anonymously, as /rest/ requires authentication,
> which the google bot does not, of course. So the new sitemap is gonna
> live under /geosearch/sitemap.xml (thanks justin for the solution).
>
> So that's more or less it. I'm planning to commit to trunk, have a demo
> instance be crawled, and when having a confirmation that google likes it
> backport to 2.1.x.
>
> Any comments are welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Gabriel
>
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