[Geoserver-users] Simple base layers for WMS

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Hi

Does anyone know a place to get a simple open source base layer for the world – png / tiff? I am looking for something that is just 2 colour, sea (blue) and land (pale yellow) but struggling to find options. I’d like to install it to my own server, not an ajaxy call.

Thanks

Tim

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Tim Robertson ha scritto:

Hi

Does anyone know a place to get a simple open source base layer for the world – png / tiff? I am looking for something that is just 2 colour, sea (blue) and land (pale yellow) but struggling to find options. I’d like to install it to my own server, not an ajaxy call.

I would go for a vector layer of land masses then (and fill it in yellow) and use blue as the background. I just don't know where to
find a good shapefile with those characteristics that's also free to use... VMAP0 is an option, but it's way too detailed for what you
want to do.

Cheers
Andrea

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Thanks Andrea

It's something like the homepage of http://openlayers.org/ uses from
http://labs.metacarta.com that I would like to achieve if anyone knows of an
easy method.

Thanks

Tim

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From: Andrea Aime [mailto:aaime@anonymised.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:04 PM
To: Tim Robertson
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Tim Robertson ha scritto:

Hi

Does anyone know a place to get a simple open source base layer for the
world - png / tiff? I am looking for something that is just 2 colour,
sea (blue) and land (pale yellow) but struggling to find options. I'd
like to install it to my own server, not an ajaxy call.

I would go for a vector layer of land masses then (and fill it in
yellow) and use blue as the background. I just don't know where to
find a good shapefile with those characteristics that's also free to
use... VMAP0 is an option, but it's way too detailed for what you
want to do.

Cheers
Andrea

4

Hi Tim,

Here is an svg world map I generated from the vpf0 data set that you might be able to use.

http://www.web-demographics.com/Census/svg/world.svg

Save to your local hard drive with a right mouse, modify the colors to suit. Then open it in FireFox, Opera, or IE with the ASV Adobe svg plugin. You can either capture/print the screen or get an open source svg to png converter like Batik to create the png/jpeg

You can change the colors to suit by editing the svg text. Here is an svg reference:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#ColorKeywords

vpf0 is public domain data.

Hope this helps

Randy George

www.cadmap.com

From: geoserver-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:geoserver-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Tim Robertson
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 7:44 AM
To: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Geoserver-users] Simple base layers for WMS

Hi

Does anyone know a place to get a simple open source base layer for the world – png / tiff? I am looking for something that is just 2 colour, sea (blue) and land (pale yellow) but struggling to find options. I’d like to install it to my own server, not an ajaxy call.

Thanks

Tim

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Hi Randy,

Thank you very very much for that

Tim

Hi Tim,

            Here is an svg world map I generated from the vpf0 data set
that
you might be able to use.

http://www.web-demographics.com/Census/svg/world.svg

Save to your local hard drive with a right mouse, modify the colors to
suit.
Then open it in FireFox, Opera, or IE with the ASV Adobe svg plugin. You
can
either capture/print the screen or get an open source svg to png converter
like Batik to create the png/jpeg

You can change the colors to suit by editing the svg text. Here is an svg
reference:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/types.html#ColorKeywords

vpf0 is public domain data.

Hope this helps

Randy George

www.cadmap.com <http://www.cadmap.com/&gt;

  _____

From: geoserver-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:geoserver-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Tim
Robertson
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 7:44 AM
To: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Geoserver-users] Simple base layers for WMS

Hi

Does anyone know a place to get a simple open source base layer for the
world - png / tiff? I am looking for something that is just 2 colour, sea
(blue) and land (pale yellow) but struggling to find options. I'd like to
install it to my own server, not an ajaxy call.

Thanks

Tim