I think that GeoServer is strong sauce.
Download the Bin distro (which includes Jetty), change to the bin
directory and type "startup.sh" or "startup.bat" and you are up and
running. You can also deploy the WAR distro to an existing Tomcat.
As far as deploying existing shapefiles, create a directory for each
under geoserver/data_dir and copy 'em in. From there you can use the
GUI to create a Namespace/Store/FeatureType, or hack catalog.xml
directly and create an info.xml for each.
I think that all of the chatter on the list about alternative
technologies comes from the latter part of Andrew's post -- asking
about query mechanisms. GeoServer allows you to get the data back out
as a rendered map (WMS) or as raw GML (WFS). Both allow you to
reproject on the fly. But for the querying (point in polygon, etc.),
GeoServer is probably not going to help you out. It's
GeoInfrastructure/Distribution, not GeoAnalysis.
If you slurp the shapefiles into PostGIS (shp2pgsql makes it
trivial), then you can do the queries you are looking for. You can
also write code to do it in JTS and GeoTools, but PostGIS' queries
might offer the path of least resistance for you. PostGIS allows you
to reproject on the fly as well. PostGIS has some pretty nice
documentation that should help -- http://postgis.refractions.net/
documentation/ . They also have a very active mailing list.
HTH,
s
P.S. Best. Elephant. Analogy. Ever.
Scott Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original Post:
On 1/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Hi all,
I'm working on an algorithm that will test whether a point falls into
various polygons defined by ~30 different shape files with various
projections. I've started digging into GeoServer, which seems to have no
problems loading the majority of the shapefiles. In your experience is
GeoServer a good fit for this kind of query? Also, what is your favorite
query mechanism (something that supports reprojection would be nice
since
I'm pulling a lat/long off of a google map and testing it against
several
different projections)
Thanks for your input!
-= Andrew Fortier
On Jan 17, 2007, at 9:10 AM, steven citron-pousty wrote:
Let's see - by using the logic of this list so far I would say the
response to Paul's elephant questions is:
An elephant seems a but heavyweight for an animal, let me tell you
about this great goldfish I have.
Sheesh -
the original post asked the person about geoserver and people's
experience with it. I was stoked and wanted to hear more about that.
Instead all I got was a whole bunch of people suggesting other
goespatial libraries without any real understanding of why the person
was asking.
Between Steve Jobs and the geowanking list I am getting pretty peeved
about the whole anti-java sentiment. Enough already
</soapbox>
Steve
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:46:17 -0800
From: Paul Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Re: Opinions about GeoServer
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Best. Thread. Ever.
Now, describe an elephant! :)
P
On 16-Jan-07, at 12:55 PM, Ian Turton wrote:
On 1/16/07, Raj Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you favor a Java component over SQL, C etc., Java Topology Suite
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:15:37 -0800
From: Jason Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Re: Opinions about GeoServer
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Paul Ramsey wrote:
Best. Thread. Ever.
Now, describe an elephant! :)
You have a strange affinity for elephants...
Elephant: Not a geoserver.
J
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