On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Andy Akins
<surveyt...@gibsoncounty-in.gov>wrote:
> We serve shapefile data to the public using Geoserver through .zip files
> generated on Geoserver. When we upload the data to the data directory, the
> .shp.xml[metadata] comes with all the other files included in the
> shapefile.
> When we download the layer from Geoserver, the .xml file isn't included. Is
> there any way to include this in the Shape-Zip file? We'd like the metadata
> to go with the files so it appears in the client's GIS software.
>
>
That xml file is not part of the original shapefile specification, it's
something that
ESRI added along the way.
I don't believe there are specs on how to build said file, the wikipedia
page
states that a possibility is ISO 19115:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile
Theoretically speaking, if the data source is a another shapefile with said
metadata
one could just copy over said file.
But if not, then one would have to write code to build the xml file from
scratch,
I guess, leveraging the few metadata information we do have available in
GeoServer
(such as, title, description, metadata links, and possibly a list of
fields in the shapefile)
In both cases it's code that's yet to write, but if someone wants to do it,
I believe patches
in that direction would be welcomed.
Cheers
Andrea
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