[Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea?

2015-06-24 Thread Peter Kovac
Dear GeoServer users, my company develops systems in meteorology, climatology, radiation monitoring etc. It's mostly data collection, storing and later retrieval. Our customers started to demand maps, recently. What we need is a map client serving customers' data, both rasters (e.g. forecasts

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea?

2015-06-24 Thread Phil Scadden
We do have a small POSTGis instance, used largely for project level databases as opposed to corporate level, but most of what we serve through geoserver is coming from the corporate Oracle database. Notice: This email and any attachments are confidential. If received in error please destroy

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea?

2015-06-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
Peter, your proposal to use a PostGIS instance on the same server as GeoServer is what I know as the Forward Cache Pattern: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=forward%20cache%20pattern http://flylib.com/books/en/2.79.1.86/1/ Is your spatial data service read-only? How fresh does the data need to

[Geoserver-users] WMS-C (tiled=true) not using GWC's metatiling: How to debug?

2015-06-24 Thread Nachtigall, Jens (init)
Hi, I ran into the problem that text labels are omitted when the labels would go over a WMS tile border. So I thought of passing tiled=true and tileorigin=minX,minY as part of the WMS request, and use Metatiling this way. I activated *all* the options as stated on

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea?

2015-06-24 Thread Chris Snider
Hi Peter, GeoServer has data drivers for both MS SQL Server and Oracle, but I believe you have to install them separately as extensions from the download page. MS SQL Server: http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/2.7.1/extensions/geoserver-2.7.1-sqlserver-plugin.zip Oracle:

Re: [Geoserver-users] WMS-C (tiled=true) not using GWC's metatiling: How to debug?

2015-06-24 Thread Chris Snider
Hi Jens, You can check GeoServer logs which are default written to logs/geoserver.log which is relative to the GeoServer data directory. You can change the log settings under the Global option of the administration screen to higher levels. There is also a log viewer in the About Status menu

Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer without PostGIS, is it a good idea?

2015-06-24 Thread David Collins
Hello, Peter. My own personal experience ... We started off connecting Geoserver to MS SQL Server tables to deliver KML to Google Earth. This was because SQL Server was a corporate direction, and consequently our data warehouse sits in SQL Server. I was aware that performance was worse than