[Geoserver-users] Some questions of a newbie

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Dear List,

I am a newbie to Geoserver and therefore would linke to post a few questions. I would appreciate any hint and/or answer... :slight_smile:

What I want to do using Geoserver:
* set up a WFS-T for digitizing with Mapbender client
What I already have managed to do:
* load spatial data from my PostGIS database into Geoserver
* load the Geoserver WMS into Mapbender

So, basically everything is working fine. But nevertheless here are my questions I have not found an answer to in the documentation until now:
* The GetCapabilities Request of Geoserver is, of course, like this one:
<http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&gt;\. But in the Capabilities Document I get all datasets loaded into Geoserver as available layers. Is it possible to have diferent request, so that only a few layers out of the whole bunch of datasets are passed on to the one who loads the request into their WMS client? Or do I need to set up more than one geoserver applications at a time when wanting this?
* How can I change the standard projection of a Geoserver WMS from EPSG:4326 to any other EPSG code?

Best regards,
Clemens Beyer

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Clemens Beyer wrote:

Dear List,

I am a newbie to Geoserver and therefore would linke to post a few questions. I would appreciate any hint and/or answer... :slight_smile:

What I want to do using Geoserver:
* set up a WFS-T for digitizing with Mapbender client
What I already have managed to do:
* load spatial data from my PostGIS database into Geoserver
* load the Geoserver WMS into Mapbender

So, basically everything is working fine. But nevertheless here are my questions I have not found an answer to in the documentation until now:
* The GetCapabilities Request of Geoserver is, of course, like this one:
<http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&gt;\. But in the Capabilities Document I get all datasets loaded into Geoserver as available layers. Is it possible to have diferent request, so that only a few layers out of the whole bunch of datasets are passed on to the one who loads the request into their WMS client? Or do I need to set up more than one geoserver applications at a time when wanting this?

Yes, there is currently no way to limit the number of datasets published
by geoserver via wfs or wms.

* How can I change the standard projection of a Geoserver WMS from EPSG:4326 to any other EPSG code?

I do not think you can do this. Internally when geoserver does not know
what a projection is it usually defaults to 4326. So the best you can do
is set the projection of your data, and use the same projection in the
wms request.

However being able to set the default strikes me a good feature. Also in
the newer ows capabilities documents a DefaultSRS is actually declared
in the document.

Best regards,
Clemens Beyer

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