Hi! On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 09:35:05AM +1000, dcook@prosentient.com.au wrote:
Where in the bib record are you storing the coordinate data? Have you looked at https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd034.html? It looks like that field was redescribed in 2021 to perfectly suit your use case.
Oh, 034 is new to me, but looks like a perfect match. Currently some geoinfo is stored in https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd751.html and we were considering (ab)using the non-specified subfield $x and $y for longitude and latitude.
In terms of feasibility, I think the main change would be to add suitable indexes for 034 MARC21 data.
Yes, that's what I think too.
Beyond that, I think a plugin would make the most sense for a frontend, as the geosearch would probably be fairly specific to your library's needs.
That's the plan
But if you could think of a geosearch that is useful for other libraries as well, then I imagine it could make it into Koha.
I guess "upgrading" a useful and working plugin to a Koha core feature is easier than trying to implement it in Koha itself. Thanks for the feedback! Greetings, domm -- #!/usr/bin/perl https://domm.plix.at for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}