FOSS4G 2021 - QGIS MetaSearch: lowering the barrier to geospatial data discovery in the desktop
Channel: FOSS4G
Date: 2021-11-05

Metasearch is a dataset search plugin for QGIS. It was originally created by NextGIS and later adopted by the geopython community. We’ve recently worked on some improvements in Metasearch. You can now also query an OGC API Records endpoint from within QGIS. From that work we were able to advance the OGC API Records implementation in pygeoapi and GeoNetwork and share some valuable feedback to the OGC community about the emerging standard. Catch up on the latest ogcapi-records research and development and the choices being made to support data connectivity and automation.

Read more at:
- https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/MetaSearch
- https://ogcapi.ogc.org
- https://pygeoapi.io
- https://github.com/geonetwork/geonetwork-microservices

Authors and Affiliations –
Tom Kralidis (OSGeo, tomkralidis@gmail.com)
Paul van Genuchten (GeoCat BV, the Netherlands)

Track –
Use cases & applications

Topic –
Data collection, data sharing, data science, open data, big data, data exploitation platforms

Level –
1 - Principiants. No required specific knowledge is needed.

Language of the Presentation –
English