Excellent! I think QGIS can very well do this. The ingredients are available.
- use the overview map widget to view the data (vector and raster) - evis plugin for other data such as geocoded photos, non-geocoded paper maps, poster maps, etc. - metadata plugin for metadata viewing or a new widget to design the graphical forms from a shapefile index attribute table On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Alex Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: > maning sambale wrote: >> Has anybody used QGIS as a local GIS data catalog "engine"? >> >> The idea is to be able to: >> - view and search data holdings >> - get metadata information and storage path to get the data >> >> Any ideas are welcome. >> > > This is where I would like to take the Metadata plugin eventually. > Though it's still quite earlier you'll notice that we did make it so you > could browse the system for any spatial file or metadata file. > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
