Hi,

Just starting to use GeoNode, and before going through
the install, I tried out the demo server, in particular
the data upload at http://demo.geonode.org/data/upload

I tried to upload a "land use" sahpe file for Port-au-Prince
(Haiti) for testing. It has 8 vectors with an ad-hoc land
use classification. All loads without problems in QGIS.
I do not have the .prj file (with is said to be optional)
but data is in EPSG:4326 (lat-lon). Vectors are MULTIPOLYGON
type.

Upload fails, and I only get "An error occurred while loading 
the data.". As a sideline, the name field complains about non-
character fields (-, space, etc.) which is somewhat awkward 
for "natural" naming.

My prime interest, for the moment, is to test the meta-data
tagging, and WMS and WFS fucntionalities, including re-projection
and re-formatting. Mid-term, we may be interested to set up
internal and external GeoNodes.

I read the recent FOSS4G presentations, and am buying into the
idea that GeoNode is a step ahead. Documentation is somewhat
poorish, though, and community momentum slowly building up. 
We'd be interested to know how we can contribute (as users, mostly)

Guido Lemoine




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