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GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data.

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How to filter big datasets in Geoserver WMS?

Is there a good way to filter datasets with approx 50,000 features in Geoserver? I'd have to select between 100 and 200 features based on ids. These ids are different from the FeatureIds. Couldn't ...
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How do I use use custom fonts for labelling in Geoserver?

I want to use a custom font I have downloaded from the web with Geoserver for my labels. How do I specify the location of my font so that the font-family css parameter can read it? Ando Geoserver ...
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Is it possible to put Geoserver behind a proxy and access the WMS/WFS using OpenLayers

I just start to work with Geoserver and Openlayers and one of the main concerns of the project now is do not expose the geoserver web interface outside of the internal network. No access to ...
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Restrict CQL filter to an specific BBOX

I need to filter an OpenLayers layer using a CQL filter to an specific Bounding Box. Is it possible? Something like this isn't working: igh > 5000 AND ...
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How do I edit info feature attributes in GeoServer with OpenLayers

Can you help me? I have a very difficult problem when doing project... I have used OpenLayers and GeoServer. When I click in the map to get feature info, I receive the info for the feature and ...
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How do I change geotiff “no data” color to white/transparent rather than black?

I am preparing data for inclusion into a geonetwork node, where the maps are displayed via geoserver. The problem is that cells that have"no data" are displaying as black in the geotiff and I am would ...
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What is the correct way to convert a USGS Orthoimage from WorldImage format to tiled GeoTiff for GeoServer?

USGS provides different resolution orthoimage quadrangles in the WorldImage format (*.tif with an accompanying *.tfw world file). Some of these quadrangles can be used by GeoServer (2.1.0 - 2.1.2) by ...
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Simplify GeoServer WFS output

I am dealing with some large datasets and would like to minimise the amount of data sent over the network. I am using OpenLayers' BBox strategy to only transfer the data that is needed but I am ...
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The International Date Line wrap around

Using OpenLayers, I added a WFS layer (on GeoServer) with a filter that returns all features (black) that intersect my polygon (yellow) placed over some Latin American countries within certain dates. ...
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What tile/tiling strategy should I use with GeoNode/GeoServer?

I've got a wicked GeoNode instance running, loaded with some basic vector data. I want to be able to serve our local-County aerial imagery as a basemap within GeoNode. I am thoroughly overwhelmed with ...
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ogr2ogr when importing from fgdb and use in python

I want import data from my GDB to PostGIS. It works fine on some datasets (all records -data- is imported or nothing is imported) from a gdb but just doesn't import others. I can't find any ...
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What's the best way to display a huge Aerial image using Geoserver

I have an Aerial image - Almost 1.5 GB , GEOTIFF - and i have been trying to add it as a layer in Geoserver .. Adding the layer went successful , but the performance were very bad . I tried to cache ...
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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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GeoServer Layer from PostGIS not updating

I created a WMS layer from a PostGIS table with a fraction of total polygons in GeoServer. Everything displayed fine. Then, I added the rest of the polygons to the table in postgis. For some reason ...
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GeoServer layer preview shows only missing images for tiles

Just getting started with GeoServer and already running into problems. When I click on Layer Preview and view any of the preloaded data in OpenLayers (or any other format) it is just blank and has the ...
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How to upload a shapefile to geoserver using cURL and replace file?

In the sequence of this: How to upload a shapefile to geoserver using cURL? which was properly solved, I now need to be able to replace the existing file, cause my process is to be repeated every ...
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Help Setting up GeoServer Proxy with OpenLayers

I have a GeoServer WMS in Apache-Tomcat at http://localhost:8080 and a mod_wsgi app in standard Apache at http://localhost:80/myapp. My OpenLayers map is being hosted statically by the Apache-Tomcat ...
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geoserver wfs insert error

I keep getting an insert error from geoserver when trying to save a point, poly etc etc to my postgis table. any ideas, my code is below var Projection = new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"); ...
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Routing Application in Windows

I am making an routing web application similar to Google Maps 'Get Direction' feature. But because of the limited control and data on GMaps, I decided to use OpenStreetMap instead. This also made me ...
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How to initialize a WFS Layer?

Here is the code block (the layers are stored in Oracle database): var saveStrategy = new OpenLayers.Strategy.Save(); var adresspt_wfs = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Address points WFS", ...
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How get Map extents for draw polygon when final click is done?

I am using openLayer js to draw a polygon and now i want map extents of the drawn polygon one final click (i.e. user finish drawing polygon or double click is done). For drawing the polygon i am using ...
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GeoServer preventing overwriting html files

I have GeoServer installed on Windows XP as part of the OpenGeo bundle. It's working well and I have just started creating my own app using it. I have created an html file in \WebApps\apps and can ...
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Are there any Hosting companies, that offer Geoserver?

I am working with a non-profit, and we are planning to have a webmap for them. Most of the hosting providers just offer a simple LAMP setup on their Linux option, and if you want to install any ...
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Is it possilbe to change SLD from client side?

How to change predefile SLD in client side? The reason I want this is I want to turn label on and off on client side.
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How to change the WMS Background Color in OpenLayers?

I am using geoserver to serve up an image pyramid basemap. I want to have all areas outside of the data extent be black (instead of white). I have the map displayed inside of a div tag and changing ...
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What map source/API/tools are recommended to create Web GIS/Mapping application utilising Microsoft technologies?

I'm researching about technologies (around Microsoft tech) to create mapping application and would like to have advice/suggestions. Brief requirement to build mapping application with Microsoft ...
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WFS-T Edit using OpenLayers, Geoserver, PostgreSQL (“error performing insert”)

I tried following the tutorials: http://www.gistutor.com/openlayers/22-advanced-openlayers-tutorials/47-openlayers-wfs-t-using-a-geoserver-hosted-postgis-layer.html and: ...
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GeoServer Web Feature Service (WFS) in Open Layers Problem

I am running GeoServer 2.1.1, and have a datastore from ArcSDE populated with features projected in EPSG:26918. I can successfully add a WMS to an OpenLayers map, but am having issues with WFS. I have ...
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How to get GeoNetwork to search through PostGIS fields via GeoServer WMS

I can't seem to get GeoNetwork to search through my PostGIS fields via GeoServer WMS. According to the GeoNetwork Documentation: it should loop over datasets served by the service and produce ...
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How to upload a shapefile to geoserver using cURL?

I need to automatically (using python) upload a shapefile into my geoserver. I'm trying to do as described in here but i'm getting this error: java.io.IOException: Wrong magic number, expected 9994, ...
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Prevent OpenLayers WMS layer cache by browser

I am using OpenLayers (GeoExt) with google chrome browser. All WMS layer is for live database. I have refreshed the browser at certain interval using javascript but the data is cached in browser and ...
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Path to proxy.cgi for GeoServer is not accessible in browser

There have been several questions very similar to this asked already (including ones not involving GeoServer), but their solutions have not solved my problem. I am trying to use getFeatureInfo on my ...
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Create a Layer in GeoServer using REST

As part of a possible solution to this question i want create a layer in GeoServer via REST that supplies a SQL statement along with a userid. Reading I think i would create a feature type and ...
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GIS Server - evaluation architecture

Building from my previous questions: QGIS Server limitations? I want to evaluate performance of both MapServer and GeoServer. Can both servers exist on the same machine (each serving out WMS) or ...
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QGIS Server limitations?

QGIS Server seems to be fairly simple to setup and create services, however I'm wondering if there are any limitations with using it opposed to MapServer or GeoServer. My current server ...
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gdal.py as part of bat script in windows 7

I need to run the following bat file from a MS4W shell which has gdal_retile.py as the final option. I have added C:\ms4w\python\gdal to my pythonpath but within a pyscripter shell I can not import ...
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How to get column names of layer (WMS) using OpenLayers?

Is it somehow possible to get layer's column name using OpenLayers? any example and documentation would be really useful? Edit: I have already tried WMS_describeLayer topp:states layer: <?xml ...
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How to add Cross Origin Filter for Jetty in GeoServer on Mac

I want to add an Access-Control-Allow-Origin:* to the response from GeoServer because I need to download images from another domain. Instand of build a proxy, I prefer to use Cross Origin Filter of ...
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adding non spatial attributes using geoserver

I am using Openlayers + geoext to perform transaction operations in postgis database using geoserver . i can insert spatial data into postgis but cannot insert other data like road name, road type in ...
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Tiles refreshing with geoserver

I use geoserver geowebcache for displaying tiles using google maps API. Data comes from Postgis. My problem is that I have to change geometry of some features (not very frequently). I would like to ...
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Zooming the map after filter

I have wms layer and after i do cql filter on this. And now i want to see result. I want map zoomed to this result. My code. ex=layer.getExtent(); map.zoomToExtent(ex); But getExtent() returns ...
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Change Vector projection in Openlayers

I have added vector layer to map vactorTest = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Editable Features", { strategies: [new OpenLayers.Strategy.BBOX(), saveStrategy], projection: new ...
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Text layer styling in GeoServer?

I am wondering what is the best approach to use for text layers in GeoServer. AFAIK, there is no text layer in GeoServer. But in many occassions we need to use text layers and not simply label for ...
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GetFeatureInfo Request with GeoServer and OpenLayers.loadURL Not Working

I'm making a simple GetFeatureInfo request against a GeoServer WMS but it keeps on returning me empty responses. The request utility I'm using is OpenLayers.loadURL. The funny thing is I can take the ...
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Can a layer's style be modified dynamically using an SLD in OpenLayers?

I am a complete novice with GeoServer and OpenLayers. I'm trying to ascertain at what point a style is applied to a GeoServer layer which is drawn in OpenLayers, when using an SLD. The Introduction ...
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GeoServer converting PostGIS timestamp with time zone

In a PostGIS view i have a field of data type "timestamp with time zone". In GeoServer this field is show with datatype "Timestamp" My problem is that i want the Timestamp to be show in my ...
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Geoserver Configuration Reload

Not quite sure if I should even be doing this. What I am wanting is I will be dynamically generating my sld file and it looks like when you update the sld in the geoserver admin it does a reload. So ...
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how to download a file from geoserver gml from a url using javascript?

how to download a file from geoserver gml from a url using javascript? I'm doing a web application with javascript, but I could not download files from geoserver, the url given entry does not bring ...
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error in loading raster tiles on postgreSQL

I am trying to import raster data from PostGIS to GeoServer. I follow the instructions given on this link. ...
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SLD style definition from GeoServer to Drupal

I've been experimenting with the SLD style definitions in both GeoServer and Drupal. What I want to achieve is to create a new style in GeoServer (by a curl operation, but I know how that works) and ...

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