{"id":55,"date":"2007-02-18T08:43:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/18\/sdi-google-style\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T18:27:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T23:27:55","slug":"sdi-google-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/2007\/02\/18\/sdi-google-style\/","title":{"rendered":"SDI, Google Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like all the geo-rage is Google Maps&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/googlemapsapi.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/search-for-kml-in-google-earth.html\" title=\"latest announcement\">latest announcement<\/a> that they will support indexing of <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/kml\/\" title=\"KML\">KML<\/a> documents, so someone can search for KML documents with a bit more intelligence then adding a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=nitrogen+filetype%3Akml&amp;\" title=\"filetype filter\">filetype filter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think this will pick up some steam, like most things Google do.  Many KML docs already exist out there, and this will also motivate publishing of more KML docs.<\/p>\n<p>I hope there are similar plans for GML documents, however the problem there is that many GML docs are produced from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengeospatial.org\/standards\/wfs\" title=\"WFS\">WFS<\/a> interactions, which, for the most part, have to be triggered by a WFS client request, which usually is not statically published.<\/p>\n<p>I also hope that there is some discussion of this in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengeospatial.org\/\" title=\"OGC\">OGC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogcnetwork.net\/massmarket\" title=\"Mass Market\">Mass Market Working Group<\/a>.  I remember some discussions on how this would have been great for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opengeospatial.org\/standards\/wms\" title=\"WMS\">WMS <\/a>specification to publish a static Capabilities XML document for the sake of search engines.  Maybe this is a good opportunity for catalogue providers out there to write wrappers to additionally publish KML of their resources.  I&#8217;ve started looking at this for owscat.<\/p>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.css\" \/>\n<!--[if lte IE 8]>\n  <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.ie.css\" \/>\n<![endif]-->\n<script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.js\"><\/script>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">#map55 { width: 300px; height: 200px; }<\/style>\n\n<div id=\"map55\"><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  var map55 = L.map('map55').setView([37.425627, -122.085056], 10);\n  L.tileLayer('http:\/\/{s}.tile.osm.org\/{z}\/{x}\/{y}.png', {\n      attribution: '&copy; <a href=\"http:\/\/osm.org\/copyright\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> contributors'\n  }).addTo(map55);\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like all the geo-rage is Google Maps&#8217; latest announcement that they will support indexing of KML documents, so someone can search for KML documents with a bit more intelligence then adding a filetype filter. I think this will pick up some steam, like most things Google do. Many KML docs already exist out there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geospatial","category-technology","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}