[ckan-dev] Spatial Searches on the actual row data not the dataset

[Ben Scott]

We wrote an extension to provide this functionality for the NHM data portal: - https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ckanext-dataspatial <https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ckanext-dataspatial>

There's an API for spatial queries (see the readme for details) and you can see an example of it (alongside our ckanext-map extension) at http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb?view_id=f4301659-ef2a-4239-a0d5-cce3c46f7a30 <http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb?view_id=f4301659-ef2a-4239-a0d5-cce3c46f7a30>

It’s working on our CKAN 2.3 instance - haven’t tried it on more recent versions, but if you run into any issues do just drop me an email.

Cheers,
Ben 

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Data Portal Lead Architect
Biodiversity Informatics, 
Natural History Museum, 
London
+44 (0) 207 942 6277


> On 4 Jan 2016, at 13:52, Conor Woods <conor at spatialest.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am currently using the spatial extension for searching for datasets within a certain bounds, I would like to know if there is any way of spatially searching the actual data contained within the dataset through the data API?
> 
> From my understanding the current spatial features allow you to set a map extent for the dataset as a whole and then search for datasets within a specified extent. 
> Is it possible to do the same for row data? I.e. specify a postgis geom column for each row of data which can be searched from the API?
> 
> Apologies if this is an obvious question or this is not the correct place to ask it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Conor
> 
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