Thanks Andrea - that sounds reasonable, and I can easily add a floor attribute
to my data.
I'll let you know how I go.
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On 30/04/2011, at 2:13, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Shaw Innes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like to use geoserver to store building floorplans in such a way that I
> could import the floordplans as either a shapefile or raster and be able to
> view them using openlayers or some other WMS client. The problem I have is
> that obviously floorplans have multiple overlapping versions depending on the
> floor of the building, and secondly they don't need to have proper
> georeferencing.
>
> My idea is that I could create a custom CRS that's a flat projection with
> meters as the unit and use an arbitrary datum on each of my floorplan images
> (or shapfiles)
>
> We are discussing support for a new EPSG code (probably going to be EPSG:-1
> or EPSG:9999) designed for this very use case
> on Geotools devel.
> For the moment just associate your data with whatever projected SRS having a
> large domain of valid coordinates, don't use EPSG:4326, but maybe ESPG:900913.
>
> For the treatment of the floor, do you have an attribute in your data
> indicating what the floor is? If so you can apply a CQL filter
> to select the floor to be displayed.
> Otherwise I guess you can have one separate WMS layer per floor.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
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