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GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. It provides powerful metadata editing and search functions as well as an interactive web map viewer. It is currently used in numerous Spatial Data Infrastructure initiatives across the world.
http://geonetwork-opensource.org/
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Improvement suggestion: Map sharing via Link #8132

Open m-lmi opened 2 months ago

m-lmi commented 2 months ago

Discussed in https://github.com/orgs/geonetwork/discussions/8119

Originally posted by **m-lmi** May 30, 2024 Hi I am trying to better understand geonetwork. I would like to understand if it is possible to share a map view as a link in geonetwork? I see I can download and reupload a map, but is it possible to generate a shareable link to a map with the same zoom level and layers?

It seems from the discussion such feature is missing in geonetwork. Is it possible to implement this feature in future versions? A simple link sharing method of the maps, to send what I see (all the layers, zoom, annotation and so on) to another user (that does not have to be logged in) to show the exact same content, so to facilitate discussion? It could also be useful for bug reporting, since the problem could be shown or tested on different interfaces.

Thank you

m-lmi commented 2 months ago

The idea is to avoid the download and upload files from geonetwork as it is a burden for the users, and simply have a link, could even be time limited for a month or something like that and if not accessed in a month the link disappears.

Layers, zoom and more info could be listed in the link as an option or make a uuid for each link. I don't know the exact working in the background of geonetwork, if making a link listing layers and zooms is feasible.