2010/1/13 Jo Walsh <[email protected]>: [...] > Been speculating about how to introduce an easily-usable location > element into CKAN. Notes are here: > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Location_in_CKAN
Just read through this in detail and really like this idea. As you suggest I think we could start with a single simple location field. > Contemplating a plugin to make the value in a key-value pair poll a > gazetteer search service and suggest links to places, allowing > multiple links per CKAN package. The largest and smallest places in > the list would imply a scope for spatial search and relations to other > data sets with a similar scope. I think this would be really nice. Plugins relating to specific set of metadata seem a really nice way to go -- in fact its something we've been talking about for a while (I think you first suggested something along these lines a couple of years ago ;) ) I don't want to get too technical but basic thing here seems to specify a set of field names a given plugin handles and then to have a way for plugins to be registered with ckan core and then loaded on demand. I think it wouldn't be much more than a day or two (and maybe just a couple of hours) to mock a basic implementation of a functioning geodata plugin. > Jonny also mentioned an internationalisation effort, with German and > Canadian instances of CKAN in the offing - that would also be really > great. German instance is here: http://de.ckan.net/ and is being overseen by Daniel Dietrich who's also helping us start an OKFN Germany chapter. Regards, Rufus _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
