[georss] KML into OGC - OpenSearch for SWE

[Carl Reed OGC Account]

Was wondering. Who is behind OpenSearch (the collaboration)? Is anyone from the geospatial community providing input into the OpenSearch collaboration? If not, we should. If we are, we should be consistent with other geospatial standards in broad use.

Thanks!

Carl

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Patrice Cappelaere 
  To: Mikel Maron ; dewitt at opensearch.org 
  Cc: OWS-4-SWE ; georss at lists.eogeo.org 
  Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:13 PM
  Subject: Re: [georss] KML into OGC - OpenSearch for SWE


  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,-48.1640625,56.944974180851574



    > 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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