> 1. how can I make GeoServer use these files as raster data sources? I > looked at the GeoServer documentation and did some online search as > well, but it is not clear to me if these files fall into any of the > supported raster data source categories: > > ArcGrid - Arc Grid Coverage Format > GeoTIFF - Tagged Image File Format with Geographic information > Gtopo30 - Gtopo30 Coverage Format > ImageMosaic - Image mosaicking plugin > WorldImage - A raster file accompanied by a spatial data file
I would suggest you do a conversion of the SRTM files to GeoTIFF. Chances are very good you can do this with gdal utilities http://www.gdal.org/gdal_utilities.html . > 2. moreover, when trying to set up any of these categories, it seems > that one has to specify one file at at time - which is very tedious, as > there are literally hundreds of files. how could one specify a > directory, and have GeoServer load each file from there? (or maybe even > a recursive search?) Recursion is not directly supported but could be easily done through the REST interface http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/restconfig/index.html Examples are here: http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/restconfig/rest-config-examples/index.html > 4. once configured into GeoServer, what would be the easiest way to > verify that the files are correct? (is there a very simple viewer that > would show them say in a color-coded form?) There is a built in preview that shows the data through OpenLayers in a browser. > 5. maybe I'm missing something, and there is a better source of > elevation data available than SRTM? Ah, well that's a harder question-- it depends upon your geography. Other similar near global sources include ASTER sources. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
