So I haven’t found a title for it yet, but my undergraduate thesis is on geospatial metadata files. More specifically, parsing them from their native language-centric presentation into something icon-centric. Replacing long strings of text with images that summarize the same. The end goal is to provide a means to quickly visually ascertain the essential characteristics of a geospatial dataset.
Surprisingly, this is rather novel research. To do it all, I’m currently developing a PHP-based solution running on Wapache. Wapache can best be described as a portable application that merges Apache, PHP, a built-in browser, and Windows GUI controls into a neat package with a light footprint. In essence: the perfect tool to create desktop webapps.
The development is slow, but steady going. Today was all about getting the app front-end fully functional. Getting the information on to the parsing stage. That’s now done and I’m now working on the XML elements extraction and parsing with PHP.
Below is a screenshot of the front-end:
