[georss] KML into OGC - OpenSearch for SWE

[Patrice Cappelaere]

Andrew,  Mikel,

This is great for Mapufacture, as an aggregator, to offer local  
search capability using OpenSearch.
If we could formalize the OpenSearch extensions, this would allow an  
optional distributed search back to the remote nodes.  You may not  
have aggregated those feeds for some reasons...
So the SWE themselves need to support OpenSearch.  The bbox  
capability will put us to par with WFS-Simple.
There is probably more we can do!
Great start!
Pat.



On Mar 4, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:

> Ha! Synchronicity. Honestly, we both posted about this around the  
> same time completely independently.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Andrew Turner <georss at highearthorbit.com>
> To: Pat Cappelaere <pat at cappelaere.com>
> Cc: OWS-4-SWE <ows-4-swe at opengeospatial.org>; georss at lists.eogeo.org
> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2007 2:36:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [georss] KML into OGC - OpenSearch for SWE
>
> On 3/4/07, Pat Cappelaere <pat at cappelaere.com> wrote:
> > I want to do a distributed [spatio-temporal] search query.  What  
> are the
> > options?
>
> Actually, Mapufacture is growing to fill this role using a variety of
> geospatial formats. We currently consume, search, and aggregate the
> various forms of GeoRSS and are adding & testing other formats.
>
> We currently do search for feeds and data in the feeds. And it also
> supports OpenSearch additions to the RSS, and also the Firefox search
> extension (visit the site in Firefox and check out your search bar, it
> should be 'glowing' where you can add Mapufacture to your search).
>
> Try it out at:
> http://mapufacture.com/feed/search/? 
> keyword=student&bbox=-136.0546875,-0.7031073524364783,-48.1640625,56.9 
> 44974180851574
>
>
>
> > Great comment.  Got the same problem.  Let's envision a  
> searchable world
> > that also contains many SensorWeb Enabled Data nodes (I am kinda  
> selfish
> > here).
>
> It would be very interesting to hear what other kinds of features you
> would like in a 'geospatial search'. SWE is very interesting and
> something that could fit very well into Mapufacture.
>
> >
> > So, has anyone considered a geospatial extension to OpenSearch?   
> Or has
> > anyone another approach to the problem?
>
> I haven't fully investigated all the features of OpenSearch, and there
> has been very little reason to delve in so far. But geospatial
> extensions would make it nicer than:
> <opensearch:Query>student within
> -136.0546875,-0.7031073524364783,-48.1640625,56.944974180851574</ 
> opensearch:Query>
>
> Something even as simple as being able to add <georss:where/>.
>
> All that said, Mapufacture is in active development and we're adding
> features and not everything is in there yet. But we're addressing your
> issues and would definitely like to know what other types of features
> you'd like to see.
>
> Andrew
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