Hi Steven,
From GeoServer’s perspective, that’s typically done with a WMS GetFeatureInfo request (though it can be a WFS).
But that’s not really of any use to you. What you need is a web-browser based client of some sort. GeoServer’s LayerPreview page uses OpenLayers. Any good client will support that feature and much much more.
This page gives you a (slightly dated) collection of 44 possible options.
http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php/en/component/k2/item/291-comparacion-clientes-web-v6
Ourselves we’re using Heron-MC (built on OpenLayers, ExtJS, and GeoExt). It’s purely internal facing now (as our corporate web-gis) but in a few months it’ll be publicly facing depending on when Security get around to approving GeoServer.
Or you can simply roll your own using the OpenLayers examples:
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/getfeatureinfo-popup.html (but that seems silly given there are litereally dozens of full-fledged clients out there)
Give me a buzz if you want to chat more about it.
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 22 July 2013 14:37, Steven Campbell <s.campbell@anonymised.com> wrote:
Hi
I’m still working out things within Geoserver and I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a useful guide that could help me with the following:
I am wanting to display some mapping data so that when someone clicks on the map all the layers of information at that spot are returned in a table of information, basically something similar to what layer preview does, but on an externally facing website.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Steve
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