Hello,
While I was working in Kenya on a PGIS project of Shalin Finland, I wrote this little manual about how to use Geoserver with Postgis and uDig.
Current version of the manual is available here: http://www.esnips.com/doc/d453ceb8-53d6-4c6b-9cd8-d3c83c61c619/Geoserver-Manual
Now I would appreciate feedback about this manual. My project is to make a better version of this manual for publication.
Also this one documents the installation procedures on Windows even though we were running it on Ubuntu, I think I might change it to Linux for the final version…
Regards
Tomi Toivio
Shalin Finland
Tomi Toivio ha scritto:
Hello,
While I was working in Kenya on a PGIS project of Shalin Finland, I wrote this little manual about how to use Geoserver with Postgis and uDig.
Current version of the manual is available here: http://www.esnips.com/doc/d453ceb8-53d6-4c6b-9cd8-d3c83c61c619/Geoserver-Manual
Now I would appreciate feedback about this manual. My project is to make a better version of this manual for publication.
Ah nice. It definitely has some overlaps with the 4 hours workshops we
do on GeoServer, not sure where you can download the material on that.
Thought it seem that in yours there's more screenshots and more detailed
instructions.
Some random suggestions:
- did I miss it, or you just assume Java is already there? It's probably a good idea to make people install the latest version of it
to get started.
- if you have people switch to command line to generate the sql from
the shapefiles, you could have them finish the job there, it's just
a matter of piping another command:
shp2pgsql karimacattle.shp karimacattle | psql GiseemDB -U postgres
- when you say "In the next page enter your Username and Password" for
the geoserver login... hem... unless they change that, the
default username/pw is "admin/geoserver", not their login ones
(which I what I think about when I read "your username and password").
- on the udig section, I see "you should click on commit changes each
time you want to change something". That might be mislead for
something you have to make before starting to edit, whilst it's
something to do to make the changes persistent (that is, it's very
close to a save button in a work processor).
Also this one documents the installation procedures on Windows even though we were running it on Ubuntu, I think I might change it to Linux for the final version...
Well, the two procedures are different enough that having both of them
around would be good imho.
Thanks for sharing the documentation with the wider user base
Cheers
Andrea
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