WorldWind Search Results Renderer
As we pound on GeoNetwork in order to make it a little more usable and presentable, we’ve had a couple of opportunities to see how well data viewers can inegrate with metadata search results. Primarily this means we’re including an OpenLayers instance that will automatically render either the data or the spatial footprint of a given search hit. Not a huge deal, this. A bigger deal is that we started toying with the idea of including an alternative globe render of search results. Google Earth was automatically disqualified because the embedded version is Windows-only (who does that in 2008?). So then we look at WorldWind Java and think…”why not?” Well, one reason “why not” is that I don’t know doink about java, so it became a special project for a grad asst.
And as we wait for a 0.6.0 release of WWj that purportedly has native CSW support (so it can be a stand-alone client for the catalog), my GA has gotten pretty far so far, able to get external page controls to act on an embedded WWj globe. I’ll post about this again when we’re further along (it will be part of my GeoNetwork series), but for now here are two rendered wms layers in an embedded WWj:
