+1 from me too. giovanni
PS: The italian national catalog (RNDT) was recently added to the plugin thanks to a proficous dialog netween some people in the italian gfoss mailing list and the national agency. 2014-04-04 17:24 GMT+02:00 Marco Hugentobler < [email protected]>: > Hi > > It will be great to have CSW functionality in QGIS out of the box! > > Regards, > Marco > > On 04.04.2014 15:30, Tom Kralidis wrote: > >> tl; dr: we are proposing MetaSearch for inclusion into QGIS core, to >> help the discovery (download/add, find/bind) workflow in QGIS. There >> are Python dependencies and build workflows that need to be >> discussed/resolved, but overall we believe it's a good time to start >> this discussion. >> >> >> >> >> Devs: as per https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/wiki/QGIS-Core- >> Integration, >> I'd like to discuss the possibility of integrating the MetaSearch >> Catalogue Client into QGIS as a core plugin. >> >> To quote Tim (Sutton): >> >> `tomkralidis: btw it would be great to see the CSW client made ready >> to go into QGIS core one of these days - its a missing piece from our >> 'out of the box OGC compliance'` >> >> Plugin: http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/MetaSearch/ >> >> Notes: >> >> - supports the badly-in-need publish/find/bind SDI workflow, allowing >> users to discover data/services and add them to their map >> - OGC services are seamlessly supported for dynamic add layer dialogues >> - over 1300 downloads in the last 6 weeks from plugins.qgis.org >> - interest across multiple organizations and countries (development, >> pull requests, documentation, feature requests/enhancements/bug >> reports, translation, etc.) >> - documentation: currently Sphinx, hosted on GitHub, translated on >> Transifex >> - extensible, future work will include additional APIs (OpenSearch, etc.) >> - initially forked from the excellent CSWClient work by NextGIS >> >> Dependencies: >> - user: https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/ >> requirements.txt >> - developer: https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/ >> requirements-dev.txt >> - managed in https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/ >> pavement.py#L60 >> - OWSLib is a hard requirement >> - I'd be willing to move off Jinja2 (HTML templating) and pygments >> (Syntax highlighting) in favour of something already in QGIS; these >> are self contained in >> https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/plugin/ >> MetaSearch/util.py#L55 >> and https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/blob/master/plugin/ >> MetaSearch/util.py#L103, >> if there are easy alternatives already supported in the QGIS Python >> environment >> - I'm not familiar with QGIS development/build workflow/etc., so I'm >> not sure how the dependencies are/will be handled. Does/will QGIS have >> a Python package dependency strategy? >> >> Build/packaging: >> - uses Paver to build, package, bundle and upload to plugins.qgis.org >> - **dependencies are bundled with the plugin in isolation** >> - how does/would this look in a QGIS build? >> >> Issues: >> >> - UI: thanks to Anita, Tim and others on UI comments and development >> in Vienna last week. We are working on these in master branch >> currently >> - default connections file: there is interest in organizations >> publishing their CSW to this list as a means to have it default in >> QGIS. Current process at >> https://github.com/geopython/MetaSearch/wiki/MetaSearch- >> Default-Connections-List. >> We have Travis CI setup to always test the default connections so the >> list does not become stale over time (as well as pep8 checks, etc.) >> >> I hope this provides enough of an overview to move the discussion forward. >> >> Thanks for consideration. >> >> Tom Kralidis, Richard Duivenvoorde, Angelos Tzotsos, >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > > > -- > Dr. Marco Hugentobler > Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions > Weberstrasse 5, CH-8004 Zürich, Switzerland > [email protected] http://www.sourcepole.ch > Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- Giovanni Allegri http://about.me/giovanniallegri Twitter: https://twitter.com/_giohappy_ blog: http://blog.spaziogis.it GEO+ geomatica in Italia http://bit.ly/GEOplus
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