Hey all,
We (OpenGeo) would like to get the Google indexing work that we've been working on recently into GeoServer for the next release. This means promoting both the geosearch module, and the rest support module that it depends on so they can be included in the release. The rest support module already meets the requirements for promotion; geosearch falls a little short in the testing area, but I am working on bringing it up to par today and should be finished well before work begins on cutting the release. I am the maintainer for both modules.
The rest module provides some facilities for using Restlet (http://restlet.org/) to add plugins to GeoServer; these plugins show up under <context>/rest/ .
The geosearch module provides a sitemap that allows Google's geo-aware crawler to index features provided by a GeoServer instance (the admin is able to enable or disable specific featureTypes if they should not be indexed.) The index shows up at http://…/geoserver/rest/sitemap.xml
and must be submitted using Google's webmaster tools for indexing to happen.
Thanks.
-David Winslow
+1 on getting the modules moved to core given they meet the requirements. And actually... we will need to include them in the 1.7.1 release to be able to support the geosearch stuff. I know this goes against project policy but I thought we could make actually getting them to core blockers for 1.7.2.
David Winslow wrote:
Hey all,
We (OpenGeo) would like to get the Google indexing work that we've been working on recently into GeoServer for the next release. This means promoting both the geosearch module, and the rest support module that it depends on so they can be included in the release. The rest support module already meets the requirements for promotion; geosearch falls a little short in the testing area, but I am working on bringing it up to par today and should be finished well before work begins on cutting the release. I am the maintainer for both modules.
The rest module provides some facilities for using Restlet (http://restlet.org/) to add plugins to GeoServer; these plugins show up under <context>/rest/ .
The geosearch module provides a sitemap that allows Google's geo-aware crawler to index features provided by a GeoServer instance (the admin is able to enable or disable specific featureTypes if they should not be indexed.) The index shows up at http://…/geoserver/rest/sitemap.xml
and must be submitted using Google's webmaster tools for indexing to happen.
Thanks.
-David Winslow
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