> Nice to hear that you found the script and got it to work! I'd love to see what fixes you applied and would roll > them into the official code. On Windows there was no $HOME directory. > How you use the resulting xml brings up a good question. Metaedit can open it. http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/qgismetaedit/ The question is now how we could produce to
> How did you envision using the metadata results? I wanted to search or query the files for their extend and attribute features. I received a bunch of data sets from the providers and wanted to check whether these contain the required information. It's administrative information that follows a certain scheme. I additionally want to use it as project documentation tool to show the other colleagues what data was used in the project. Like: For each federal state we have a) land use in forlder x b) boundaries in forlder y c) ... > My plans were to build a gui and simple query system next. But ultimately I want a tool in my desktop GIS to > allow quick browsing and loading of certain layers easily. Yes, we are think of the same. But set ontop of a existing GIS like QGIS. What they have done in ArcCatalogue can be replicated. > There are some hacks in there that can output sql or csv if you need something simpler. Would you show me such a CSV hack? What do you think of adding the script to gdal/ogr project? Best regards, Timmie _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss