Thanks so much, David, I've been digging through the PostGIS documentation but never could seem to figure out the language for describing where the issue was taking place.
-Elijah ************ Elijah Meeks http://dhs.stanford.edu Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University [email protected] (650)387-6170 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Winslow" <[email protected]> To: "Elijah Meeks" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 9:18:00 AM Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] PostGIS Views This happens when GeoServer can't properly determine the geometry type for the column; it defaults to the default point style which is the most general (it will render centroids for polygons and midpoints for linestrings, so any vector data can be rendered with the point style.) If you add "styles=polygon" to the URL for your OpenLayers preview then it should work. You can also set this as the default in the configuration for the layer. You can look in the PostGIS manual for details on how to properly register your view with PostGIS to avoid this sort of issue in the future. -- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.or/g On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Elijah Meeks < [email protected] > wrote: I've got Geoserver 2.1 connected to a PostGIS database and it displays the tables as layers just fine: http://dhs.stanford.edu/dh/geospat/polys.PNG but when I try to server a view as a layer, it looks like the geometry is displayed as a collection of points instead of polygons: http://dhs.stanford.edu/dh/geospat/points.PNG The query that produces this result is simply the previous table WHERE id = X, so it's not like I'm running anything that changes the way the geometry is being formatted. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, Elijah ************ Elijah Meeks http://dhs.stanford.edu Digital Humanities Specialist Academic Computing Services Stanford University [email protected] (650)387-6170 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
