Using Geoide Search

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Image: CatalogSearchButton.png CatalogSearchButton. With Geoide Search you can search the catalog for data sets and services. You can access Geoide Search using the CatalogSearchButton button in the Geoide Viewer. You can instantly search the catalog by a keyword or use the Theaurus on theme, synonyms and translations can be involved in the search. If you search for "aerial photo" and if you check the language box 'german', the search result will also give german version of data and services with the german translation; in this case with the term "Luftbild". You can also specify the location to look for data (for example: just a rural area, or just for a specific province). In some cases it is possible to add the found layer temporarily to the Geoide Viewer.

Image: tip.png The success of the search is highly dependent on the quality of the meta-data in the data sets.

> See also: Adding Geoide Search to the Geoide Viewer.

Steps

1. Start Geoide Search. The Thesaurus search screen appears.

2a. If you want to use the Thesaurus:

  • Select a theme and/or keyword. Hints for search terms are displayed in the list below the search box. You don't have to use the hints.
  • Click on Search. The catalog search screen will open, including items found on the Thesaurus.

2b. If you do not want to use the Thesaurus:

  • Click on Skip. Then the catalog search screen will open.

3. Fill in the fields in the catalog search window:

  • Enter the search term. You can also enter a part of the term using a supplemented % before and/or % after.
  • If you have made use of the thesaurus (step 2b) you selected items from the list.
  • Specify how the search list must be sorted.
  • Enter the Search type (data sets or services).
  • Select if wanted an Area collection and Area.
  • Select if you only want to search within the current crop of the map in the Geoide Viewer.
  • Click on Search.

The found results are displayed. If the service allows you to insert the found map layer in Geoide, then a button Add layer to map appears in the results screen. The map layer becomes visible in the Geoide Viewer after clicking on this button. However the map layer is not permanently added to the context. This can only be done using the Geoide Author.

> See also Adding layers through the Geoide Author
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