On the style creation side, I recently needed to search through a GeoServer
catalog and identify layers which were using the "default" styles in
GeoServer (line, polygon, raster, point) and create new, distinct styles for
each.
I accomplished it using a Python script and the gsconfig Python project (
https://github.com/dwins/gsconfig.py) I've been working on. A slightly
anonymized version of the script is available at
https://gist.github.com/706564 if you are interested.
--
David Winslow
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:15 AM, <christian.muel...@nvoe.at> wrote:
> @Robert, do you use the REST API for configuration ?. I would not
> advise to configure ~ 100 layers manually.
>
> @Paul, I have currently the problem with about 25000 Layers, so it is
> impossible to search in the table of contents. I am investigating in
> using geonetwork for searching and geoserver for presentation. Do you
> have some experience here.
>
> Another problem I have is that each layer has its specific SLD. Is it
> a good idea to create the SLDs on the fly ?.
>
> Quoting Paul Joyce <joyc...@hotmail.com>:
>
> > Good advice from Andrea. I would add that you could consider whether a
> user
> > needs access to all 110 layers at once. If not, consider splitting the
> wms
> > in multiple smaller wms services, that are more targeted and focussed on
> a
> > specific need.
> > I once had a customer that had setup a web map with 220 layers. They were
> > having so much trouble finding layers in the table of contents that they
> > contacted us to ask that we put in a search facility to find things in
> the
> > tree!
> >
> > Regards, Paul
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrea Aime [mailto:andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it]
> > Sent: Friday, 19 November 2010 7:31 AM
> > To: Robert Buckley
> > Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] What makes more sense?...lots of layers or
> a
> > complicated sld?
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Robert Buckley
> > <robertdbuck...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a GIS project which has become a wms service. The project was not
> >> designed for the web, and therefore the datastructure was based on 110
> >> different shapefiles.
> >>
> >> My job is to publish a wms service displaying these layers.
> >>
> >> There are approx 110 shp...points,lines, polygons and text. A
> black/white
> >> 60% transparent topographic map is draped over the project in Desktop
> GIS.
> >
> > Generally speaking, better to setup thing so that they make sense :-)
> > You can't just merge layers if they have a different set of attributes.
> > If you have a few that are purely geometric or have the same attributes
> > maybe
> > you can merge them and add a classified column, and then use sld rules
> > to tell them apart.
> >
> > For sure you don't want to display a map that has all of 110 layers
> enabled
> > at the same time, cause that will result in 110 separate queries, but
> > if the layers are legit, that would also result in a map so crowded that
> > is almost impossible to read.
> >
> > So merge layers only if they share the same meaning/attributes (e.g.,
> > create a road layers or out "highways", "primary roads", "secondary
> roads"
> > if you have those as layers), use scale dependencies to show only
> > the layers that it makes sense to show at a certain scale, and allow
> > the user to turn on and off the layer that do not make sense as part
> > of the base map
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andrea
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > Ing. Andrea Aime
> > Senior Software Engineer
> >
> > GeoSolutions S.A.S.
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> > Italy
> >
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> > fax: +39 0584962313
> >
> > http://www.geo-solutions.it
> > http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/
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> >
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