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GeoSeer's First Big Update: Over 250,000 New Layers

Posted on 2018-04-27

You may have noticed the number of layers that GeoSeer now has in its index has jumped dramatically. Previously we had about 450,000 layers, now we have around 715,000 layers, that's over quarter of a million more layers! And that's after we've improved the junk filter to get rid of a lot of the spurious test layers (it's unlikely anyone actually wants to see the GeoServer test layers for instance), and layers with no names/titles.

These extra layers are a result of a whole bunch of work to improve the GeoSeerBot (the thing that goes crawling around the internet trying to find data). We now search many more data sources, and we're also now scraping numerous HTML pages. We haven't yet started scraping CSW services, that's our next goal.

We've also done some work to resolve a few behind-the-scenes niggles. For example previously we kind of didn't have the country of Chile in our spatial data (ooops!), and so no layers were being assigned to Chile.

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