Re: [Geoserver-users] Best GeoServer Features

2014-08-25 Thread Roel De Nijs
1/ Friendly, helpful and very active community Great release management process Very simple/easy to setup Highly configurable using a web interface 2/ WFS, WMS, SqlServer database connection 3/ SqlServer database connection 4/ How easy it was to setup a geoserver and display your data, even

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best GeoServer Features

2014-08-25 Thread Roger Bedell
Jody, The best GIS server out there, no contest! My favorite story is publishing 2' contours from our LiDAR DEMS with just a WPS based SLD. Fantastic. Roger On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Roel De Nijs roel.den...@aquafin.be wrote: 1/ Friendly, helpful and very active community

Re: [Geoserver-users] Best GeoServer Features

2014-08-25 Thread Diego Guidi
Some SLD editor to make maintenance less cumbersome a sort of visual editor should be a great improvement Diego Guidi On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Roel De Nijs roel.den...@aquafin.be wrote: 1/ Friendly, helpful and very active community Great release management process Very

[Geoserver-users] Representing a SQL Server table with different types

2014-08-25 Thread Roel De Nijs
Hi list, We have a SQL Server spatial table node with a node_type column containing +-350K records. Currently we have +-15 different types; the records are not equally divided (the least common type 300 records vs the most common type 300K records). On different (zoom) levels of our map we

Re: [Geoserver-users] Representing a SQL Server table with different types

2014-08-25 Thread Jorge Sanz
Why not using just one GeoServer SQL view with a parameter for your types and in openlayers a function to generate your layers. You could even generate a void GeoServer SQL layer with a SELECT DISTINCT query so you could get your types from a WFS query and make it more general. My 2cts -- Jorge