[GeoNetwork-users] Mapfish? OL?

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1

I asked this over at Mapfish, and they sent me back over here:
Are there efforts underway to get OpenLayers and/or Mapfish integrated into GN? Can we help?

And yes, there are currently efforts to make GeoNetwork use OpenLayers

and possibly MapFish in its web interface. I'd recommend asking this
on the GeoNetwork mailing list, people there know better than us
what's going on with GeoNetwork.<<

Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.
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2

Roger, there is work going on. I've been told it's happening in several places, but I posted what was essentially a callout to those who are doing this work and nobody responded (see http://www.nabble.com/tableless-layout---td20343350.html#a20343883). I still suspect it's true, though, so hopefully they'll see this one and speak up.

The short answer from me is that we have this working on the search results end. So following a search, all layers are added to an OL layer switcher and will render when turned on. In fact we have a decent set up working for piping WMS layers through tilecache as well so the whole thing gets sped up. As soon as we can sort out the proxy issues, we'll also be able to throw WFS layers to render on OL as well. All other records from the search picklist get rendered as footprint boxes. Adding an OL map to the search page itself (the form, I mean) will be trivial, and in fact we already have a stand-alone OL page that throws queries to GN's csw service and can render the results as if it were embedded in GN's search results page.

Oscar Gomez has also expressed interest in messing with this. If you want to see what we have so far (it's still pretty early and there are only three of us working on this whenever we can), see https://code.lib.purdue.edu/trac/gis/pugo/wiki. We haven't yet set up anonymous checkout, but If you want to checkout let me know and I'll set you up.

I'm just a GIS Librarian, not a web developer, so it would be nice to have some eyes with smarter brains behind them have a look at this code to improve it.

On Nov 20, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Sylvan Ascent Inc. wrote:

I asked this over at Mapfish, and they sent me back over here:
Are there efforts underway to get OpenLayers and/or Mapfish integrated into GN? Can we help?

And yes, there are currently efforts to make GeoNetwork use OpenLayers

and possibly MapFish in its web interface. I'd recommend asking this
on the GeoNetwork mailing list, people there know better than us
what's going on with GeoNetwork.<<

Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.
800-362-8971
+34 626 855 662
roger@anonymised.com <mailto:roger@anonymised.com>
www.sylvanascent.com <http://www.sylvanascent.com/&gt;
www.topodepot.com <http://www.topodepot.com/&gt;

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Dear Roger,

We've used both OpenLayers for extent search and MapFish as kind of
preview map here:

http://gis.lib.virginia.edu

After performing a search, many results will have an "Interactive Map"
link that opens a MapFish-based tool for previewing the layers in the
'datastack'. Here's an example:

http://lat.lib.virginia.edu/geoview/index.html?wms=http://lat.lib.virginia.edu/ows/Geography/Charlottesville/wms

As you can see, we've modified it a bit to accept a WMS
GetCapabilities address as a parameter. My colleague was able to
allow for the 'grouping' of layers (sometimes we call these
'datastacks') from the full GeoServer GetCapabilities document. These
groupings could be based on political, thematic, or other categories.
Layers can be a member of multiple groups.

Feel free to take a look around our site and let me know if you have
questions. This is just a preview release, so the usual caveats about
stability and functionality apply.

Best,
Joseph Gilbert
Scholars' Lab Coordinator
Digital Research & Scholarship
University of Virginia Library

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Sylvan Ascent Inc.
<sylvanascent@anonymised.com> wrote:

I asked this over at Mapfish, and they sent me back over here:
Are there efforts underway to get OpenLayers and/or Mapfish integrated into GN? Can we help?

And yes, there are currently efforts to make GeoNetwork use OpenLayers

and possibly MapFish in its web interface. I'd recommend asking this
on the GeoNetwork mailing list, people there know better than us
what's going on with GeoNetwork.<<

Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.
800-362-8971
+34 626 855 662
roger@anonymised.com <mailto:roger@anonymised.com>
www.sylvanascent.com <http://www.sylvanascent.com/&gt;
www.topodepot.com <http://www.topodepot.com/&gt;

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4

Hi all,

I misspoke (mistyped?) re: MapFish. We're using GeoView from the OpenGeo
folks:
http://projects.opengeo.org/geoext/wiki/apps/geoview

Best,
Joe

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Joseph Gilbert <jfg9x@anonymised.com> wrote:

Dear Roger,

We've used both OpenLayers for extent search and MapFish as kind of
preview map here:

http://gis.lib.virginia.edu

After performing a search, many results will have an "Interactive Map"
link that opens a MapFish-based tool for previewing the layers in the
'datastack'. Here's an example:

http://lat.lib.virginia.edu/geoview/index.html?wms=http://lat.lib.virginia.edu/ows/Geography/Charlottesville/wms

As you can see, we've modified it a bit to accept a WMS
GetCapabilities address as a parameter. My colleague was able to
allow for the 'grouping' of layers (sometimes we call these
'datastacks') from the full GeoServer GetCapabilities document. These
groupings could be based on political, thematic, or other categories.
Layers can be a member of multiple groups.

Feel free to take a look around our site and let me know if you have
questions. This is just a preview release, so the usual caveats about
stability and functionality apply.

Best,
Joseph Gilbert
Scholars' Lab Coordinator
Digital Research & Scholarship
University of Virginia Library

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Sylvan Ascent Inc.
<sylvanascent@anonymised.com> wrote:
> I asked this over at Mapfish, and they sent me back over here:
> Are there efforts underway to get OpenLayers and/or Mapfish integrated
into GN? Can we help?
>
>>>And yes, there are currently efforts to make GeoNetwork use OpenLayers
> and possibly MapFish in its web interface. I'd recommend asking this
> on the GeoNetwork mailing list, people there know better than us
> what's going on with GeoNetwork.<<
>
>
> Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.
> 800-362-8971
> +34 626 855 662
> roger@anonymised.com <mailto:roger@anonymised.com>
> www.sylvanascent.com <http://www.sylvanascent.com/&gt;
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5

Joe,
That's pretty spiffy. A lot closer to what we would like rather than the plain vanilla GN UI. Any chance at getting a look or SVN of the code?

Roger

Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.

________________________________

From: Joseph Gilbert [mailto:jfg9x@anonymised.com]
Sent: Fri 11/21/2008 10:03 AM
To: GeoNetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Mapfish? OL?

Dear Roger,

We've used both OpenLayers for extent search and MapFish as kind of
preview map here:

http://gis.lib.virginia.edu/&gt;

After performing a search, many results will have an "Interactive Map"
link that opens a MapFish-based tool for previewing the layers in the
'datastack'. Here's an example:

http://lat.lib.virginia.edu/geoview/index.html?wms=http://lat.lib.virginia.edu/ows/Geography/Charlottesville/wms

As you can see, we've modified it a bit to accept a WMS
GetCapabilities address as a parameter. My colleague was able to
allow for the 'grouping' of layers (sometimes we call these
'datastacks') from the full GeoServer GetCapabilities document. These
groupings could be based on political, thematic, or other categories.
Layers can be a member of multiple groups.

Feel free to take a look around our site and let me know if you have
questions. This is just a preview release, so the usual caveats about
stability and functionality apply.

Best,
Joseph Gilbert
Scholars' Lab Coordinator
Digital Research & Scholarship
University of Virginia Library

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Sylvan Ascent Inc.
<sylvanascent@anonymised.com> wrote:

I asked this over at Mapfish, and they sent me back over here:
Are there efforts underway to get OpenLayers and/or Mapfish integrated into GN? Can we help?

And yes, there are currently efforts to make GeoNetwork use OpenLayers

and possibly MapFish in its web interface. I'd recommend asking this
on the GeoNetwork mailing list, people there know better than us
what's going on with GeoNetwork.<<

Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.
800-362-8971
+34 626 855 662
roger@anonymised.com <mailto:roger@anonymised.com>
www.sylvanascent.com <http://www.sylvanascent.com/&gt;
www.topodepot.com <http://www.topodepot.com/&gt;

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6

Dear Roger,

We're beginning the process of license review for all the tools we've
used here and consulting with our legal counsel on the possibility of
making our efforts open source. We are excited by the prospect of
giving back to this community and collaborating with others
(particularly other libraries and academic institutions) after we've
completed this process. In the meantime, "view source" is your
friend!

Best,
Joe

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Scholars' Lab Coordinator
Digital Research & Scholarship
University of Virginia Library

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Sylvan Ascent Inc.
<sylvanascent@anonymised.com> wrote:

Joe,
That's pretty spiffy. A lot closer to what we would like rather than the
plain vanilla GN UI. Any chance at getting a look or SVN of the code?

Roger

Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.
________________________________
From: Joseph Gilbert [mailto:jfg9x@anonymised.com]
Sent: Fri 11/21/2008 10:03 AM
To: GeoNetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Mapfish? OL?

Dear Roger,

We've used both OpenLayers for extent search and MapFish as kind of
preview map here:

http://gis.lib.virginia.edu

After performing a search, many results will have an "Interactive Map"
link that opens a MapFish-based tool for previewing the layers in the
'datastack'. Here's an example:

http://lat.lib.virginia.edu/geoview/index.html?wms=http://lat.lib.virginia.edu/ows/Geography/Charlottesville/wms

As you can see, we've modified it a bit to accept a WMS
GetCapabilities address as a parameter. My colleague was able to
allow for the 'grouping' of layers (sometimes we call these
'datastacks') from the full GeoServer GetCapabilities document. These
groupings could be based on political, thematic, or other categories.
Layers can be a member of multiple groups.

Feel free to take a look around our site and let me know if you have
questions. This is just a preview release, so the usual caveats about
stability and functionality apply.

Best,
Joseph Gilbert
Scholars' Lab Coordinator
Digital Research & Scholarship
University of Virginia Library

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Sylvan Ascent Inc.
<sylvanascent@anonymised.com> wrote:

I asked this over at Mapfish, and they sent me back over here:
Are there efforts underway to get OpenLayers and/or Mapfish integrated
into GN? Can we help?

And yes, there are currently efforts to make GeoNetwork use OpenLayers

and possibly MapFish in its web interface. I'd recommend asking this
on the GeoNetwork mailing list, people there know better than us
what's going on with GeoNetwork.<<

Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.
800-362-8971
+34 626 855 662
roger@anonymised.com <mailto:roger@anonymised.com>
www.sylvanascent.com <http://www.sylvanascent.com/&gt;
www.topodepot.com <http://www.topodepot.com/&gt;

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Hi Sylvan,

On jeu, 2008-11-20 at 14:35 -0500, Sylvan Ascent Inc. wrote:

I asked this over at Mapfish, and they sent me back over here:
Are there efforts underway to get OpenLayers and/or Mapfish integrated into GN? Can we help?

Yep we are working on that topic, see proposal on GeoNetwork [1] and
MapFish [2] tracs.

The idea is to have a JS based interface which will be easier to
configure than the existing XSLT one. Using OpenLayers will also provide
support for non WGS84 projection (a project in switzerland is on going)
and also features drawing like bbox highlighter on result page. The
layout will also be tableless so easier to modify than the existing one.

We discuss that yesterday at the IRC meeting with Jeroen who proposed to
make some mockup in order to define what will be the default GeoNetwork
UI. We also have to investigate JS files compression in order to not to
have to big loading time at start (issue we're already facing with
current version). I think Simon compression [3] should also helped on
that.

Ciao.
Francois

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/ReplacingIntermap
[2] http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/Proposals/Catalogue
[3] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/GZIPFilter

>>And yes, there are currently efforts to make GeoNetwork use OpenLayers
and possibly MapFish in its web interface. I'd recommend asking this
on the GeoNetwork mailing list, people there know better than us
what's going on with GeoNetwork.<<

Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.
800-362-8971
+34 626 855 662
roger@anonymised.com <mailto:roger@anonymised.com>
www.sylvanascent.com <http://www.sylvanascent.com/&gt;
www.topodepot.com <http://www.topodepot.com/&gt;

8

I really like the UI mock-up at [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/ReplacingIntermap

We were thinking of making our own, but I think we will wait for this one!

Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.
800-362-8971
+34 626 855 662
roger@anonymised.com <mailto:roger@anonymised.com>
www.sylvanascent.com <http://www.sylvanascent.com/&gt;
www.topodepot.com <http://www.topodepot.com/&gt;

________________________________

From: Francois-Xavier Prunayre [mailto:francois-xavier.prunayre@anonymised.com]
Sent: Tue 11/25/2008 3:09 AM
To: Sylvan Ascent Inc.
Cc: GeoNetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net; users@anonymised.com
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Mapfish? OL?

Hi Sylvan,

On jeu, 2008-11-20 at 14:35 -0500, Sylvan Ascent Inc. wrote:

I asked this over at Mapfish, and they sent me back over here:
Are there efforts underway to get OpenLayers and/or Mapfish integrated into GN? Can we help?

Yep we are working on that topic, see proposal on GeoNetwork [1] and
MapFish [2] tracs.

The idea is to have a JS based interface which will be easier to
configure than the existing XSLT one. Using OpenLayers will also provide
support for non WGS84 projection (a project in switzerland is on going)
and also features drawing like bbox highlighter on result page. The
layout will also be tableless so easier to modify than the existing one.

We discuss that yesterday at the IRC meeting with Jeroen who proposed to
make some mockup in order to define what will be the default GeoNetwork
UI. We also have to investigate JS files compression in order to not to
have to big loading time at start (issue we're already facing with
current version). I think Simon compression [3] should also helped on
that.

Ciao.
Francois

[1] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/ReplacingIntermap
[2] http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/Proposals/Catalogue
[3] http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/GZIPFilter

>>And yes, there are currently efforts to make GeoNetwork use OpenLayers
and possibly MapFish in its web interface. I'd recommend asking this
on the GeoNetwork mailing list, people there know better than us
what's going on with GeoNetwork.<<

Roger Bedell, President Sylvan Ascent Inc.
800-362-8971
+34 626 855 662
roger@anonymised.com <mailto:roger@anonymised.com>
www.sylvanascent.com <http://www.sylvanascent.com/&gt;
www.topodepot.com <http://www.topodepot.com/&gt;