Hi,
Apologies for sounding like a beginner (which I am!)...
I currently have an ARC GIS project with many layers and associated
shapefiles. I am trying to find a way of serving the project across the
internet using a web browser for anyone to view and query the data. I
suspect Geoserver is the ideal way to do this but I have very limited
knowledge on it. Can anyone suggest how I put my ARC GIS project into
Geoserver. I suspect it is not that easy and likely that the symbology in
the layers will not carry across.
Please could someone advise.
Many thanks!
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Unfortunately there is no way to easily transform to a geoserver configuration. If you have some scripting skills, you could write a custom script that parsed out the arcgis configuration and transformed it to a geoserver configuration via some REST calls.
And indeed symbology will be the difficult part, mapping it to SLD which is what GeoServer uses for symboligy. I know folks have written code to do this but I am not sure anything that emerged as a robust tool for doing so.
-Justin
gisser10 wrote:
Hi,
Apologies for sounding like a beginner (which I am!)...
I currently have an ARC GIS project with many layers and associated
shapefiles. I am trying to find a way of serving the project across the
internet using a web browser for anyone to view and query the data. I
suspect Geoserver is the ideal way to do this but I have very limited
knowledge on it. Can anyone suggest how I put my ARC GIS project into
Geoserver. I suspect it is not that easy and likely that the symbology in
the layers will not carry across.
Please could someone advise.
Many thanks!
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Justin Deoliveira
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.