Hello all. Are you or your organization serving data publicly via GeoServer? Would you like this data to be searchable via Google Maps?
We here at OpenGeo are testing out new "geosearch" functionality in GeoServer. We believe this is the future of finding geospatial information on the web. While still in development, this functionality will be available to all in GeoServer 1.7.2.
We have a sample of a search in Google Maps that brings up data served by GeoServer. (You can click on the blue markers to see information about the dataset.)
We are very interested in working with organizations with public data to help test this. We are willing to donate resources to help configure your servers so that your public-facing data can become even more accessible. When we announce this functionality to the world, your geospatial information will be prominently featured.
If you are interested please contact me.
Thanks,
Mike Pumphrey
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org