Using OSM data in GeoServer: Part3 - GeoServer

To install GeoServer you have a lot of options:

• Installer
• Binaries
• Web ARchive(WAR)

I choose the WAR because I want to extend the funktionality of the server later on (Not in this tutorial).
Go to the download page and get the stable WAR and unzip it.

geoserver-2.1.2-war.zip
geoserver.war

A WAR gets deployed into an application server. Also here you got a lot of options:

• JBoss
• Tomcat
• Jetty
• GlassFish

I choose GlassFish. Go to the download page and get the newest open source version.

glassfish-3.1-windows.exe

Installation folder	C:\glassfish3
Http port	8080
Admin port	4848
start command	C:\glassfish3\glassfish\bin\asadmin.bat start-domain domain1

Go to the admin site and deploy the GeoServer WAR.
Open your browser and type in 'http://localhost:4848'.
Click on Applications and there on the 'Deploy...' button.
Choose the geoserver.war ond click 'OK'.

Open the page 'http://localhost:8080/geoserver'.

The default username and password ist admin and geoserver.

If you want to know how GeoServer generally works I recomend to read the excellent GeoServer User Manual.

Now we want to bring the spacial data into the browser.

Go to 'Workspaces'.
Click 'Add new workspace'

Name	osm
Namespace URI	http://osm.de

Go to 'Stores'.
Click 'Add new Store'.
Click 'PostGIS - PostGIS Database'.

Workspace	osm
Data Source Name	osm data
host	localhost
port	5432
database	osm
user	osmuser
passwd	***

Now you have to create for every table a layer.

Go to 'Layers'.
Click 'Add a new resource'
Choose 'osm:osm data'.

In the Tab 'Data' go to the point 'Bounding Boxes' and compute the native- and Lat/Lon bounding boxes from data.
Check in the Tab 'Publising' if the 'Standard Stil' is point for planet_osm_point and line for planet_osm_line, planet_osm_roads and polygon fro planet_osm_polygon.
Click 'Save'.

Go to 'Layer Groups'.
Click 'Add new layer group'
Name: osm group
Click 'Add Layer...' and add all 4 layers.
Click 'Geerate Bounds'.
Click 'Save'

Go to 'Layer Preview'.
Find the osm group and click 'OpenLayers'.

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