Dear All,
I'm pretty new to the world of GeoServer and of course, I'm in trouble!
My final aim is to develop a WebGIS where an user could click on a map and,
from the coordinates of the clicked point, retrieve the number of closes point
in circle range (spatial analysis) and show the numbers on a popup. After
different hours of research and basic knowledge, I decided to use GeoServer +
Leaflet.js (I preferred it to Openlayer and I think fit with my final aim)
I thouht that after a week of javascript and some tutorial online I could
achieve this but unfortunatly not :(. I have mainly two questions but before I
think I have to describe my environment.
I work on a windows 8 environment 64bit. I have installed TomCat and in the
folder webapps I have put the geoserver.war. It was converted in a folder
automatically and I could reach it on the following local host adress:
http://localhost:8082/geoserver/web/ (I have choose 8082 instead of 8080 during
the installation of TomCat)
After that I simply download the client of Leaflet.js and put in the webapps
folder of TomCat at the same level of GeoServer with the name 'Leaflet'. I
don't know if I have to put it within the GeoServer folder or not. Afterthat, I
create a basic html in the Leaflet folder. I followed the tutorial on the
leaflet.js folder and everything works fine.
Now, the point is that I wanna load on a map, a shapefile of points. I know
that I could write every point in an html file but I prefer to have a shapefile
(create in a QGIS and convert with OGR (GDAL)). It's simpler with
hundreds/thousands of points. Actually here comes the doubts.
The main doubts are:
I know that I could upload the shapefiles in GeoServer following the tutorial
and see them in an OpenLayer demo. The point is that I didn't installed any
PostGIS/PostgreSQL software. Do I need that right? How could I install in a way
that it could communicates with GeoServer? I didn't any tutorial because I have
GeoServer within TomCat and so, in a different situation where I could install
using GeoServer.exe. After that, I could recall that from my client using what
url? localhost:8082/geoserver/web/...?
I understand that probably these are dummy doubts...but I wasn't able to find
any answer around on google. Do know any nice tutorial to follow that could
clarify my questions? Any language is ok!
Thanks in advance for your support!Gianni
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