GNIP - Upload/Download directly from GeoNode

[ingenieroariel]

Allow people to download the file that was uploaded with NO modifications.

Potential Problems

What to do about layers that are modified after creation.

[capooti]

+1 here for me.
But for our use case we should provide the latest version of the datasets, that could be different from the original dataset if for example dataset was edited.
I think we should provide a basic download service implementation, giving the data owner the possibility to define which formats/projections and eventually subdatasets to provide for download.
The datasets to be downloaded could be generated by an asynchronous process on the server with GDAL.

[jj0hns0n]

Punting to 2.5?

[capooti]

Also, let's make sure to avoid any duplication with https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/wiki/GNIP-47--Predefined-Download-Service

[JJediny]

-1 for vector data
+1 for raster data

While geoserver takes a hit the reality is traffic/demand is rarely an issue, and if a production geonode is seeing heavy use, taking the normal steps to scale the site (via clustering / DB isolation) will meet the demand. Shouldn't break or complicate what already works, for raster I agree that automating a download service for original raster file is needed. Maybe just mod apache to access upload dir as a static file to download and register direct link to override current WCS link to geoserver. Lastly seems like version control is also baked into this ticket, feel like if that is an issue for a project they would consider integrating GeoGig (feature-based versioning) over a (file-based) versioning system within django.

[jondoig]

You can already do this without even logging in. Even on private data. See #2896 😮