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How to show Two Labels of One feature In Geoserver…?

I have prepared a Web GIS Map using Geoserver-Openlayers_Postgis....For One Feature I need to show two labels such as "premise_no' & "bld_name'... The following is the xml I used for styling(in ...
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Possible ways to display maps offline, inside mobile hybrid app

I want to develop a mobile hybrid application to run on both Android & iPhone devices in which i want to display my own map data. I have the SHP files with the data i need. I have Geoserver and ...
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What is the best way to use Leaflet and Geoserver to highligh a feature after a WMS request?

I have a web map, and I'm hoping to make it interactive. The layer I have is reasonably large, at 15 mb in GeoJSON format 4 mb compressed, so I don't want to load the whole layer as one file. But, I ...
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How to configure the Ubuntu server after publishing the map using Geoserver (Open GeoSuite)

I've installed the GeoServer that comes with the Open GeoSuite on Ubuntu. I've created an HTML page (index.html) inside the /usr/share/opengeo-suite-data/geoserver_data/www/ for viewing maps using ...
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How to set up a background map in WGS84 projection for interactive map?

I've started developing my own interactive map and I have some things which are not clear to me. I heard that OSM, Google maps and all similar maps use Google Mercator projection. But if I use that ...
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Is Geoserver's “styler” plugin dead?

The "Styler" plugin for Geoserver promised flexible styling of your data, using the GeoExt library: The user guide tells you to first install the REST plugin, and then extract the styler zip file ...
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Instructions for building a Flex App using open source PostGIS DB and Geoserver

Anyone have a link for a good guide on how to build a Flex app to work with Open source REST services? I am familiar with how to do it in ESRI and Arc Server Manager, but don't want to pay for a ...
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Wanting to build Web Mapping Application

I am wanting to build a web mapping application and am trying to gather all the pieces that I'll need. Is it possible to build REST services with opensource Geoserver from an ArcMap document and tools ...
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Geoserver Link to External MS-Access Database

Is there a way that I can link a shape (as a polygon, with a LINK_ID = 12345) from Geoserver and have it open or link to the specific information (LINK_ID_DB = 12345) within an online Web Microsoft ...
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What is the Market share for open source web-GIS systems?

I would like to know the market share of 3 web-GIS systems, deegree, GeoServer, Geomajas). Which one is more popular? Are there any evaluations regarding the market share of open source web-GIS ...
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Design question: what's the role of WFS-T in this kind of webapp?

I have more experience in "traditional" (Java EE) webapp development, and I am trying to figure out a decent design for a mapping web application. My application has a map, and users can see and edit ...
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Adding Expires Headers to GeoWebCache Content

I've recently started sorting out the static content on our sites and adding Expires headers to it. My question is, when it comes to the stuff in our GeoWebCache, is it worth adding expires headers to ...
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Advice on a generic open-source package roadmap

I just wanted to ask an advice from the open source GIS gurus on a recommended stack to use for my envisioned project, as I do not fully understand the limits of the possible with most packages. I ...
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How to create mapping application with user input to dynamically weight/shade map layers

Does anyone know of any examples of web-apps that allow user-input to change variable weights used to calculate symbology? My organization is looking to build a dynamic mapping application and while ...
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Workflow process to style vector data using GeoServer

I'm starting to get a better understanding of map-servers in general, but I am still unclear on how best to use GeoServer. At the moment, I use web-hosting to store the web-browser related parts of my ...
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Which web application framework is easiest for building website displaying lot of geospatial data?

I am building a simple website that displays a lot of geospatial data (which is routed through Geoserver). I was trying to use Drupal-6 to build the website component (non geospatial descriptions) but ...
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How to display pop up image when click point in open layer web map

I have basic WMS web map showing parcels and points layer which representing buildings of parcel.Then I want to add building images for each and every point. Then when a user clicks on a point image ...
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What is Geonode ? What all can be achieved using it?

Ok i have searched the site and did not find enough information concerning regarding what is a Geonode so i really thought i may ask everyone who has used it to give their opinion. I am trying to set ...
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Web Map Server (geoserver) on CentOS 6

I am trying to setup a web map server on a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine for development. I have never used Linux or web mapping frameworks, but I am trying to do this work as low cost as possible. So ...
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How to choose a language for web map development?

I am building a web map application using: GeoServer OpenLayers Tomcat I would like to build a web application, where the user can log in and have the map arranged according to their profile. ...
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Web mapping software for a huge raster time series?

I'm an ArcGIS Desktop user who is stepping into the world of web mapping for the first time. Following advice I found here on GIS.SE, I started with the free tutorials from OpenGeo. However, I ...
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How do you solve the map publishing problem with Geoserver 2.1.1 on Windows 7 x64?

Well, my problem is that i have geoserver installed over a windows 7 x64 system with both java (JRE 6u29) x32 and x64 installed and i can't proyect my layers on the website. The preview on geoserver ...
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Memory considerations for cloud based GeoStack

Some time ago I asked about hardware considerations of cloud based GeoStack implementation. As a follow up to this question There are some good pointers in related question already, but they mainly ...
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How to use geoserver to display data on hosted website

I am using geoserver to display GIS data on my hosted website when geoserver is running I can see my data on my website in both firefox and Internet explorer but only on my laptop where I have ...
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Completely Brand New to GIS - Help picking technology from the pros

I'm new to GIS and need to learn for an internship. I've been reading a lot and now need help picking technologies to use... particularly the map serving tech. Project Requirements - Free Web ...
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How to get a KML of Wikipedia POIs?

I'm looking at the possibility of using a kml layer in a 'geoserver' to provide attribute information on a point. Is there a KML file for the Wikipedia Places articles as it is used in Google earth or ...
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Definition of a BBOX in Web GIS

In my practice I use a lot WMS and WFS in Geoserver. I have not found a document describing the concept of a bounding box(bbox). ArcGIS has map extent properties to identify map boundary. Google ...
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A lot of pointers to load on map-A better solution

I have to project a lot of points present in my Database say more than 100000. I heard that using geoserver is a better solution as it can render any number of points and from ...
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Ordnance Survey data on GeoServer 2.x

Has anyone had any success deploying the Ordnance Survey's free datasets on its open sourced OSGBWebMapTools framework using GeoServer 2.0.2? I've been able to set up the datasets on GeoServer 1.7.6 ...
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With just a web browser we want our field staff to collaboratively make complex maps with secured private data--looking for options?

Simple Question With just a web browser we want our field staff to collaboratively make complex maps with secured private data. What are our options? Note: Please provide specific product examples ...
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GeoWebCache: misalignment of tiles

I'm trying to test simple web map based on PostGIS/Geoserver/OpenLayers stack on Windows Server 2008. When I load my WMS layer by: var gwctest = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "gwctest", ...
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Access-Control-Allow-Origin error in web map

I am having trouble getting a WFS layer working using Geoserver, OpenLayers and GeoExt. I get the following error: XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://10.0.0.155/geoserver/wfs. Origin ...
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Data entry and manipulation using web pages

I am working on a project where we want to move a database from Microsoft Access to PostGIS, and we want the data entry forms to be web page based rather than forms within the Access database. I am ...
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GeoServer in Windows x64 - war file installation versus Windows installer?

After running a GeoServer war file installation in Tomcat for some time in Windows Server 2008 x64, I've become increasingly unhappy with Tomcat's chronic memory issues and leaks. Now that the ...