Hi Dick -
Thanks for the question. The 1.0 release will not include spatial search,
although it should be smart about searching on geographical entities that
contain other entities (e.g., search for things by county would find things
in the contained cities), subject to the hierarchic relationships in the
Place authority.
A high priority moving forward is a move to a PostgreSQL db and support for
OpenGIS (PostGIS) extensions to support proper spatial queries. We've had
some requests from various partners, but we will almost certainly come back
to you with questions about what functionality you need, whether you already
have GIS data and if so, in what form, etc.
Have you already got some specific use-cases you need to be able to satisfy?
Is it more like "find specimens within some distance of a place", or "find
specimens in a known polygon (for a county, region, geographic feature)", or
"find specimens in a polygon I can draw", or something else?
Thanks - Patrick
Hi Dick -
Thanks for the question. The 1.0 release will not include spatial search,
although it should be smart about searching on geographical entities that
contain other entities (e.g., search for things by county would find things
in the contained cities), subject to the hierarchic relationships in the
Place authority.
A high priority moving forward is a move to a PostgreSQL db and support for
OpenGIS (PostGIS) extensions to support proper spatial queries. We've had
some requests from various partners, but we will almost certainly come back
to you with questions about what functionality you need, whether you already
have GIS data and if so, in what form, etc.
Have you already got some specific use-cases you need to be able to satisfy?
Is it more like "find specimens within some distance of a place", or "find
specimens in a known polygon (for a county, region, geographic feature)", or
"find specimens in a polygon I can draw", or something else?
Thanks - Patrick
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> What will be CSpace's attitude towards spatial queries?
> searching on geographic polygons or shapefiles?
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> Dick Moe
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