Hi all, this is just a little notice that I'm about to commit a revamp of the geosearch extension soon, later today or tomorrow morning, so if anyone has a concern this would be the time to speak up.
The rationale is that Google changed the way it indexes kml sitemaps. In the past, it liked them to address specific placemarks and hence the geosearch extension produced deep sitemaps down to actual features. But the way it works now, and that has more chances to get crawled and assigned high rates, is that the kml pointed out by the sitemap should be some sort of "metadata kml document", meaning it should contain the layer's title, abstract, may have some sample placemarks and/or bounding box, and link back to the actual data. By the other side, the sitemaps generated by the geosearch module were broken since GeoServer 2.0.x (not sure about the exact version but way in the past), in the sense that the urls it generated, besides the toplevel sitemap.xml, lead to 404 http errors, so there's actually no geoserver sitemap that could be crawled. Another reason why the geosearch extension was not working is that the sitemap it published lived under /rest/sitemap.xml. That is, it is not possible to access it anonymously, as /rest/ requires authentication, which the google bot does not, of course. So the new sitemap is gonna live under /geosearch/sitemap.xml (thanks justin for the solution). So that's more or less it. I'm planning to commit to trunk, have a demo instance be crawled, and when having a confirmation that google likes it backport to 2.1.x. Any comments are welcome. Cheers, Gabriel -- Gabriel Roldan [email protected] Expert service straight from the developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
