On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Ákos Maróy <a...@maroy.hu> wrote: > but despite this, when going for the 'add new datasource' page, GML is > not listed among possible vector data sources. > > I wonder how one can try out GML support in GeoServer?
GML as a datastore is not supported since a few years ago. No one was maintaining that datasource and while GML is a good and rich data exchange format it is not suitable for data serving, it's slow to parse, uses a lot of disk space and does not have any spatial index. Generally speaking I'd suggest to use ogr2ogr to import the GML into a spatial database or turn it into a shapefile and serve from there. In my spare time I'm also working on a new store that will allow GeoServer to use the OGR library eventually installed on the operating system. The code is still pretty new and has not undergone any kind of load testing to assess its stability under stress, but I hope that it will be offered as an option in the future when GeoServer 2.2.0 gets released. OGR can read many formats, including GML. As another option one could use the existing GML2/GML3 parsing abilities of GeoTools (the jars you mentioned) to build a pure java data store. Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
