2013/10/18 Gianni Iannelli <giannicrist...@msn.com>: > Dear All, > > I'm pretty new to the world of GeoServer and of course, I'm in trouble! > > My final aim is to develop a WebGIS where an user could click on a map and, > from the coordinates of the clicked point, retrieve the number of closes > point in circle range (spatial analysis) and show the numbers on a popup. > After different hours of research and basic knowledge, I decided to use > GeoServer + Leaflet.js (I preferred it to Openlayer and I think fit with my > final aim) > > I thouht that after a week of javascript and some tutorial online I could > achieve this but unfortunatly not :(. I have mainly two questions but before > I think I have to describe my environment. > > I work on a windows 8 environment 64bit. I have installed TomCat and in the > folder webapps I have put the geoserver.war. It was converted in a folder > automatically and I could reach it on the following local host adress: > > http://localhost:8082/geoserver/web/ (I have choose 8082 instead of 8080 > during the installation of TomCat) > > After that I simply download the client of Leaflet.js and put in the webapps > folder of TomCat at the same level of GeoServer with the name 'Leaflet'. I > don't know if I have to put it within the GeoServer folder or not. > Afterthat, I create a basic html in the Leaflet folder. I followed the > tutorial on the leaflet.js folder and everything works fine. > > Now, the point is that I wanna load on a map, a shapefile of points. I know > that I could write every point in an html file but I prefer to have a > shapefile (create in a QGIS and convert with OGR (GDAL)). It's simpler with > hundreds/thousands of points. Actually here comes the doubts. > > The main doubts are: > > I know that I could upload the shapefiles in GeoServer following the > tutorial and see them in an OpenLayer demo. The point is that I didn't > installed any PostGIS/PostgreSQL software. Do I need that right? How could I > install in a way that it could communicates with GeoServer? I didn't any > tutorial because I have GeoServer within TomCat and so, in a different > situation where I could install using GeoServer.exe. After that, I could > recall that from my client using what url? localhost:8082/geoserver/web/...? > >
You don't need a database if you don't want to. You can publish your shapefile directly with geoserver. Check the documentation[1]. Anyway I recommend to do the Boundless GeoServer workshop to get a better idea of what GeoServer is, and specially their main components and concepts (Workspace/Store/Layer/Style/etc). After that you'll know how to publish your data to any WMS/WFS client. > I understand that probably these are dummy doubts...but I wasn't able to > find any answer around on google. Do know any nice tutorial to follow that > could clarify my questions? Any language is ok! There are never dummy doubts, if you do your research and don't find a good answer on the list archives or any other resource, asking here is perfectly OK. BR [1] http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/data/vector/shapefile.html [2] http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/geoserver-intro/ -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
