Hi,
I'm just starting with GeoServer (and GIS in general!), so this may be a very simple issue to resolve.
I have a world outline shapefile with the spatial data stored as EPSG:4326. I've used shp2pgsql to get it into PostGIS and I've set the data store / featuretype in GeoServer.
That's all fine. When I run a WMS request on it, the image comes back as something which looks like Equidistant Cylindrical. What I really want is for GeoServer to reproject the data to Mercator. However, when I tag srs=EPSG:41001 on the end of the URL (which I understand to be the Simple Mercator projection), I get back a blank image.
If there's another way to import the data into PostGIS so that GeoServer renders as a Mercator projection, that would be great. Reprojecting would be fine, too. Just not the 4326 projection.
Please excuse any beginner mistakes I may have made in this description; I've done a lot of reading and hit a number of brick walls with all this!
Cheers
Paul