[GeoNetwork-users] Fed up with GeoNetwork

[moenk <moe...@ge...>]

Folks,

we tried to use GeoNetwork for a geo-spatial infrastructure in our project
for one year now. I'm really fed up with this software. Is there anybody out
there who is using it and is satisfied with it in a productive enviroment? 

I have my doubts about this and you are welcome to show me a least one
working reference installation. Googling for installations of GeoNetwork
shows up several sites with the same problems I encountered the last year. 

Problems starts with the Java/Tomcat-enviroment, you need to know how to
configure memory, editing files with the wrong editor might crash the whole
system. Simple changes to the XSL-based templates require a system restart.
PostGIS-support needs that you know the right howto and user need to find
out how it works. Fancy error messages in HTML from time to time and search
results that are not really useful. 

At this time I do not dare to ask about a working up- and download of
geodata in ZIP-archives and indexing metadata and thumbnails that it to be
found in the wild, i.e. created by ArcCatalog. 

A fews weeks ago I deteled all the Java/Tomcat-crap and started coding a
solution on my own, open source of course and available on GitHub, a simple
LAMP-thing coded in PHP. Users can upload geodata with metadata, provide
service-URLs or website-URLs, all done very simple, feel free to have a look
on gdi.geo.hu-berlin.de to get an impression how I think a GDI should work.

Thanks for the time here,

-moenk




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