Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer and Spatial queries

2013-10-29 Thread Phil Scadden
Choice of database can be dictated by your environment. Spatial data doesnt usually exist in isolation - its likely there is a GIS involved in authoring and compatibility with the GIS can be important if you dont want to be replicating datasets. Proxies are only complicated if you have never do

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer and Spatial queries

2013-10-29 Thread Jonathan Moules
fo and tutorial? > > Thank you very much for the help! > Gianni > > -- > From: jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk > Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:36:38 + > Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer and Spatial queries > To: giannicrist...@msn.com &

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer and Spatial queries

2013-10-29 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi Gianni, You're asking a lot of questions there; I think it would be best to address them one at a time. The commonly used database would be PostGreSQL with the PostGIS extension. The later giving it proper spatial awareness. This is a Free & Open Source product and is well supported by GeoServe

[Geoserver-users] GeoServer and Spatial queries

2013-10-28 Thread Gianni Iannelli
Dear All, I have a question regarding spatial queries linked to shapefiles. I have different shapefile (points and lines). I want to query them in a circle/bbox (that would be faster) range based on the click of the mouse over a map. It's a query related to the number of them and its attributes.