[Geoserver-users] 3D shapefile

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1

Hello,

As a new Geoserver user, currently using version 1.5.4, I have a few questions:

  • Are 3D shapefiles (with x, y, z values) supported?
    All my imported 3D shapefiles (through DataStores-new) are “flattened”. Is there a way to include the z-value? Maybe install a newer version?

  • Can I keep track on how many kB are downloaded through my Geoserver WFS?

  • How do I create a username/password to connect to the WFS server for collecting data?

Thank you very much in advance for any feedback!

Best greetings,

Iris

2

Iris Peeters ha scritto:

Hello,

As a new Geoserver user, currently using version 1.5.4, I have a few questions:

- Are 3D shapefiles (with x, y, z values) supported?

Nope, geoserver does not support any kind of 3d datasets at the moment.
One developer tried to add support to it some time ago but it turned
out to be a non trivial exercise.

All my imported 3D shapefiles (through DataStores-new) are “flattened”. Is there a way to include the z-value? Maybe install a newer version?

Nope, no version supports 3d data.

- Can I keep track on how many kB are downloaded through my Geoserver WFS?

Hum, in GeoServer 1.6.2 there is a filter that is used to gzip
compress data on the fly (provided the client does support gzip
compression). I guess it could be modified to support byte counting
as well, David, what do you think?
Iris, maybe open a request on jira.codehaus.org so that we won't forget about this.

- How do I create a username/password to connect to the WFS server for collecting data?

This you can do only in GeoServer 1.6.x, that has multi user abilities.
See http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/5+Security+subsystem
(it is very rough at the moment, hope it does what you need)

Cheers
Andrea

3

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 12:11:58 Andrea Aime wrote:

Iris Peeters ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> As a new Geoserver user, currently using version 1.5.4, I have a few
> questions:
>
>
>
> - Are 3D shapefiles (with x, y, z values) supported?

Nope, geoserver does not support any kind of 3d datasets at the moment.
One developer tried to add support to it some time ago but it turned
out to be a non trivial exercise.

> All my imported 3D shapefiles (through DataStores-new) are “flattened”.
> Is there a way to include the z-value? Maybe install a newer version?

Nope, no version supports 3d data.

> - Can I keep track on how many kB are downloaded through my
> Geoserver WFS?

Hum, in GeoServer 1.6.2 there is a filter that is used to gzip
compress data on the fly (provided the client does support gzip
compression). I guess it could be modified to support byte counting
as well, David, what do you think?
Iris, maybe open a request on jira.codehaus.org so that we won't forget
about this.

Adding byte counting to the gzip filter should be pretty easy. This would only
count bytes sent in the body of HTTP responses, though; I'm not sure how
tough it would be to count the headers as well. Definitely worth a Jira
request though.

> - How do I create a username/password to connect to the WFS
> server for collecting data?

This you can do only in GeoServer 1.6.x, that has multi user abilities.
See http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/5+Security+subsystem
(it is very rough at the moment, hope it does what you need)

Cheers
Andrea

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-David

4

Thanks a lot for clarifying things, now I won't spend too much time on
searching for something that's not possible!
I'll open a Jira request for the byte counting.

Greetings,
Iris

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From: David Winslow [mailto:dwinslow@anonymised.com]
Sent: woensdag 2 april 2008 18:28
To: Andrea Aime
Cc: peeters@anonymised.com; geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] 3D shapefile

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 12:11:58 Andrea Aime wrote:

Iris Peeters ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> As a new Geoserver user, currently using version 1.5.4, I have a few
> questions:
>
>
>
> - Are 3D shapefiles (with x, y, z values) supported?

Nope, geoserver does not support any kind of 3d datasets at the

moment.

One developer tried to add support to it some time ago but it turned
out to be a non trivial exercise.

> All my imported 3D shapefiles (through DataStores-new) are

"flattened".

> Is there a way to include the z-value? Maybe install a newer

version?

Nope, no version supports 3d data.

> - Can I keep track on how many kB are downloaded through my
> Geoserver WFS?

Hum, in GeoServer 1.6.2 there is a filter that is used to gzip
compress data on the fly (provided the client does support gzip
compression). I guess it could be modified to support byte counting
as well, David, what do you think?
Iris, maybe open a request on jira.codehaus.org so that we won't

forget

about this.

Adding byte counting to the gzip filter should be pretty easy. This
would only
count bytes sent in the body of HTTP responses, though; I'm not sure how

tough it would be to count the headers as well. Definitely worth a Jira

request though.

> - How do I create a username/password to connect to the WFS
> server for collecting data?

This you can do only in GeoServer 1.6.x, that has multi user

abilities.

See http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/5+Security+subsystem
(it is very rough at the moment, hope it does what you need)

Cheers
Andrea

!DSPAM:4040,47f3b056115261849620573!

-David

5

Hello,

Concerning my question on 3D shapefiles, I was wondering about how it
works exactly. Is an added shapefile converted to GML or something
similar? Because I have heard about something called "City GML", which
may support 3D data? Just thinking out loud.
All feedback is of course welcome - many thanks.

Iris

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Aime [mailto:aaime@anonymised.com]
Sent: woensdag 2 april 2008 18:12
To: peeters@anonymised.com
Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net; David Winslow
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] 3D shapefile

Iris Peeters ha scritto:

Hello,

As a new Geoserver user, currently using version 1.5.4, I have a few
questions:

- Are 3D shapefiles (with x, y, z values) supported?

Nope, geoserver does not support any kind of 3d datasets at the moment.
One developer tried to add support to it some time ago but it turned
out to be a non trivial exercise.

All my imported 3D shapefiles (through DataStores-new) are

"flattened".

Is there a way to include the z-value? Maybe install a newer version?

Nope, no version supports 3d data.

- Can I keep track on how many kB are downloaded through my
Geoserver WFS?

Hum, in GeoServer 1.6.2 there is a filter that is used to gzip
compress data on the fly (provided the client does support gzip
compression). I guess it could be modified to support byte counting
as well, David, what do you think?
Iris, maybe open a request on jira.codehaus.org so that we won't forget
about this.

- How do I create a username/password to connect to the WFS
server for collecting data?

This you can do only in GeoServer 1.6.x, that has multi user abilities.
See http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/5+Security+subsystem
(it is very rough at the moment, hope it does what you need)

Cheers
Andrea

6

Hello Iris,

I think you might find the deegree project has some of the functionality
you're looking for. I know they support 3D shapes (albeit not all
possibilities) and have done some work with city gml.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Ugo

Iris Peeters wrote:

Hello,

Concerning my question on 3D shapefiles, I was wondering about how it
works exactly. Is an added shapefile converted to GML or something
similar? Because I have heard about something called "City GML", which
may support 3D data? Just thinking out loud.
All feedback is of course welcome - many thanks.

Iris

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Aime [mailto:aaime@anonymised.com]
Sent: woensdag 2 april 2008 18:12
To: peeters@anonymised.com
Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net; David Winslow
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] 3D shapefile

Iris Peeters ha scritto:

Hello,

As a new Geoserver user, currently using version 1.5.4, I have a few
questions:

- Are 3D shapefiles (with x, y, z values) supported?

Nope, geoserver does not support any kind of 3d datasets at the moment.
One developer tried to add support to it some time ago but it turned
out to be a non trivial exercise.

All my imported 3D shapefiles (through DataStores-new) are

"flattened".

Is there a way to include the z-value? Maybe install a newer version?

Nope, no version supports 3d data.

- Can I keep track on how many kB are downloaded through my
Geoserver WFS?

Hum, in GeoServer 1.6.2 there is a filter that is used to gzip
compress data on the fly (provided the client does support gzip
compression). I guess it could be modified to support byte counting
as well, David, what do you think?
Iris, maybe open a request on jira.codehaus.org so that we won't forget
about this.

- How do I create a username/password to connect to the WFS
server for collecting data?

This you can do only in GeoServer 1.6.x, that has multi user abilities.
See http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/5+Security+subsystem
(it is very rough at the moment, hope it does what you need)

Cheers
Andrea

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Thanks Ugo, I'll have a look into that!

Iris

-----Original Message-----
From: Ugo Taddei [mailto:ugo.taddei@anonymised.com]
Sent: donderdag 3 april 2008 13:16
To: peeters@anonymised.com
Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] 3D shapefile - extra question

Hello Iris,

I think you might find the deegree project has some of the functionality
you're looking for. I know they support 3D shapes (albeit not all
possibilities) and have done some work with city gml.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Ugo

Iris Peeters wrote:

Hello,

Concerning my question on 3D shapefiles, I was wondering about how it
works exactly. Is an added shapefile converted to GML or something
similar? Because I have heard about something called "City GML", which
may support 3D data? Just thinking out loud.
All feedback is of course welcome - many thanks.

Iris

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrea Aime [mailto:aaime@anonymised.com]
Sent: woensdag 2 april 2008 18:12
To: peeters@anonymised.com
Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net; David Winslow
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] 3D shapefile

Iris Peeters ha scritto:

Hello,

As a new Geoserver user, currently using version 1.5.4, I have a few
questions:

- Are 3D shapefiles (with x, y, z values) supported?

Nope, geoserver does not support any kind of 3d datasets at the

moment.

One developer tried to add support to it some time ago but it turned
out to be a non trivial exercise.

All my imported 3D shapefiles (through DataStores-new) are

"flattened".

Is there a way to include the z-value? Maybe install a newer version?

Nope, no version supports 3d data.

- Can I keep track on how many kB are downloaded through my
Geoserver WFS?

Hum, in GeoServer 1.6.2 there is a filter that is used to gzip
compress data on the fly (provided the client does support gzip
compression). I guess it could be modified to support byte counting
as well, David, what do you think?
Iris, maybe open a request on jira.codehaus.org so that we won't

forget

about this.

- How do I create a username/password to connect to the WFS
server for collecting data?

This you can do only in GeoServer 1.6.x, that has multi user

abilities.

See http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/5+Security+subsystem
(it is very rough at the moment, hope it does what you need)

Cheers
Andrea

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Working Group Spatial Decision Support
http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/kd.html
phone (+49)2241-14-2184 fax (+49)2241-14-2072
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