goosh.org is a new Web-based tool that has been warming up the wires for last hours. The idea is really cool, though it does not work in text lynx-like browsers, as one would expect.
Hmm, looks like the next (and obvious) step is to implement GDAL utilities plugin for goosh, so everyone can run:
guest@goosh.org:/gdal/> ogrinfo -ro PG:'host=gdal.org user=root dbname=cool'
Layer name: streets
Geometry: Line String
Feature Count: 13
Extent: (-87.634943, 24.543945) - (-80.031369, 31.000975)
Layer SRS WKT:
GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",
DATUM["WGS_1984",
SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]
...
guest@goosh.org:/gdal/>
What about hackers/crackers? Don’t worry! This time, lucky works for Google:
I tried “rm -rf /”, but Google is still up.
;-)
Update: Stupid me! I really should not use the term hacker inappropriately above.
If you made a gdalsh, how would you seen it getting access to data? Or outputting data?
I realize that you might not be serious – but I’m wondering if there’s some trick that I’ve missed for providing remote access to local datasets?
Martin
One option is to use Web Services, like WFS, WMS. Users could specify URL of a datasource. And, yes I’m not 100% serious, though the general idea sounds interesting :-)