Geospatial Search

Search your Collection Geographically

Thoughts about the search interface:

From our TODO list:

Search interface for maps on the OldMapsOnline.org database:

Search engine for map collections with georeference trough the web interface:
- Integration with Google Geo Search and use of AJAX Search API to search in our own map collection (simple solution)
- Installation of LuceneGeoTemporal engine form DigMap.eu and integration with their servers
- Our own search engine based on new algorithm which would produce better results
Integration with Google Earth (dynamic KML script on our server - returning maps by active viewport)
Integration with Google Maps (Maplet)

Export of geo-metadata to other search engines:

KML Metadata (compatible with interactive web maps a la Google Maps and with Google Earth)
- SiteMap.xml export for crawlers linking KML metadata for every georeferenced map

Synthetizing web interface for map search:

Inspiration based on MSR MapSynthetizer: (see the video demostration)
- OpenLayers based web interface with integration of search functionality and produced georeferencing outputs

Existing projects and their user interface and ranking algorithms:

Alexandria Digital Library

Digmap: Lucene GeoTemporal Extensions

ECAI + TimeMap.net

PostGIS + R-Tree index + postprocessing for ranking

GeoNetwork - project

Service:

Google Geo Search - by submitting KML to their database

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http://mapsearch.nla.gov.au/

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http://kb.gmaplink.com/

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http://clients.alexandria.ucsb.edu/globetrotter/

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http://www.charts.noaa.gov/InteractiveCatalog/nrnc.shtml

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http://maps.lib.uic.edu/