[Geowanking] no metadata

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Sat Aug 13 20:48:47 PDT 2005


I update it about once a month, as the Google index updates.  It's  
started to get a little meatier lately, almost 400 servers.

P.

On 12-Aug-05, at 5:34 PM, Raj Singh wrote:

> Woohoo! Nice job guys (and women?). A very nice hack.
> Is that a dynamically update list?
>
> --Raj
>
> On Aug 12, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
>
>> An FYI to the OGC wanking community:
>>
>> - For the uDig project (udig.refractions.net) we needed a way to  
>> programmatically search for layers (OGC standards, yay) that could  
>> be drag'n'dropped into the application. So,
>> (a) we scraped google for all the capabilities we could find and
>> (b) parsed them into a database structure and
>> (c) cleaned up the bounds and got them all into the same srs
>> and so now:
>>
>> http://udig.refractions.net/search/google-xml.php? 
>> keywords=bird&xmin=-180&xmax=180&ymin=-90&ymax=90
>>
>> returns a simple XML document with enough info to bind to layers  
>> that match the keyword/bounds restrictions.
>>
>> In the spirit of "making things work" Sonny :)
>> The "Search" tab in uDig is our client side UI interface to this  
>> thing.
>>
>> Paul
>>
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