Hi Robin, I recently wrote up a detailed explanation of creating an overlay
layer from a geotiff served through Geoserver:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/archesproject/vaBMwbYp6IY/nqL6xO-PAwAJ

No command line work necessary, all done in the Django admin backend
(/admin) of your Arches application.

Adam

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:35 AM Robin Rönnlund <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you Dennis, and sorry for taking a while to respond. I had to get
> our technician to set up a Geoserver, which is now done and the GeoTiff is
> uploaded.
>
> I (and the technician!) have some problems understanding the following
> steps. I have tried to read the documentation but I don't get that very
> well either. Could you please expand?
>
> I assume that these things have to be handled through the command line
> interface, which I'm not very savvy with yet.
>
> Thanks again,
> Robin
>
> Den fredag 6 mars 2020 kl. 21:53:06 UTC+2 skrev Dennis Wuthrich:
>>
>> Hi Robin,
>>
>> Yes, you can add a geoTIFF as either an overlay or basemap to Arches.
>> The steps are:
>>
>> 1. Set up a service for your geoTIFF.  There are lots of ways to do this
>> (a little googling will reveal plenty of options).  One choice is to use
>> GeoServer (http://geoserver.org/), an Open Source geospatial server for
>> both raster and vector data.  GeoServer has excellent documentation, and
>> there is a very good step-by-step summary of configuring a service for
>> geotiffs.
>>
>> 2. Once you've set up your service, you'll need to register it with
>> Arches.  Here's an example of how to define a raster service (in this case,
>> served from esri):
>>
>> {
>>     "name": "ESRI World Topo",
>>     "sources": {
>>         "ESRI World Topo": {
>>             "type": "raster",
>>             "tiles": ["
>> https://services.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer/WMTS/tile/1.0.0/World_Topo_Map/default/default028mm/{z}/{y}/{x}.png
>> "],
>>             "tileSize": 256
>>         }
>>     },
>>     "layers": [
>>         {
>>         "source": "ESRI World Topo",
>>         "type": "raster",
>>         "id": "agoltopo"
>>         }
>>     ]
>> }
>>
>> The key for you will be to replace the "tiles" URL with the proper URL
>> for your service.
>>
>> Once you've defined your service, you can register it with Arches using
>> the "add_mapbox_layer" which will look something like this:
>>
>> python manage.py packages -o add_mapbox_layer -j *path to
>> file*/Sausalito.json -n "Sausalito Zoning"
>>
>>
>> - Dennis
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 11:40:30 AM UTC-8, Robin Rönnlund wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I have been informed by several people that it is possible to add a
>>> rectified geoTIFF as a map overlay in Arches, but I have failed to find how
>>> to do this. Is there a guide that I haven't found, or is this a more
>>> esoteric issue?
>>>
>>> I have a site-plan (georeffed in WGS84) of a particular archaeological
>>> site, and we would need it as the local basemap showing where specific
>>> archaeological finds have been found.
>>>
>>> Robin
>>>
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