GNIP 13 - Collections

[David Winslow]

See the proposal on the wiki at https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/wiki/GNIP-13---Collections

As discussed this sounds like a suitable feature for inclusion in GeoNode 1.2.  It might be interesting to have collections correspond to GeoServer's Virtual Services (http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/virtual-services.html) but then we would need to enforce that every layer is part of one and only one collection, which I think would be too strict for many use cases that collections address.

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David Winslow

OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Im -1 on _enforcing_ this kind of correspondence, but it does make
sense to provide an 'option' to do things this way. David can you
elaborate on what kind of benefit could be expected by optionally
tying Collections to Virtual Services?

Jeff

[David Winslow]

GeoServer's Virtual Services allow you to have separate WMS, WFS, etc. services for subsets of the catalog.  This feature is currently tied to workspaces, which is why a layer can only be in one Virtual Service (and in fact must be in one virtual service.)  I think the integration between layer collections and virtual services is pretty obvious - make a workspace for each collection and assign the workspace for each layer according to its collection.  But as I said, without changes to GeoServer this comes along with probably unacceptable technical limitations.

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David Winslow

OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/