Hi list, this wraps up some discussion on
https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-7972
<https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOS-7972>, which was correctly stopped
by Andrea, suggestion to open discussion on the mailinglist first.
The issue is that I incidentally get requests to include metadata in
shapefiles/geopackages 'exported' from a WFS.
That metadata should be extracted from a csw service that is connected to the
feature type.
For outputformats GML/json this doesn't make much sense, but geopackage and
shapefile both include a convention to store metadata
Related to metadata on shape files:
- There seems a convention (coming from esri inc community) to store
metadata as {shape}.shp.xml in the zipped archive, but i’m not sure how wide it
is supported, and if it may even break shapefile support in other products?
Some challenges here:
- where to grab the metadata from, on each layer/featuretype a
metadata url may be configured, this url would be the most appropriate to grab
metadata from, else it could be taken from the embedded geoserver CSW service
(using layer metadata). In that case one will have to configure a schema to use.
Jukka suggested a similar feature as mapserver OGR,
http://mapserver.org/output/ogr_output.html
<http://mapserver.org/output/ogr_output.html> “wfs_additional_files_in_output”,
which may be a valid approach.
Welcoming your thoughts
Regards, Paul.------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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