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This page covers the use of Geoserver to import GIS information about historical feudal Japan, in particular 1664 boundaries among daimyos. This data is available on Harvard's website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/japan/archive/ | This page covers the use of Geoserver to import GIS information about historical feudal Japan, in particular 1664 boundaries among daimyos. This data is available on Harvard's website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/japan/archive/ | ||
=Prep for Geoserver= | |||
==Copy Data== | |||
First, copy the data to the Tomcat server where Geoserver is running: | First, copy the data to the Tomcat server where Geoserver is running: | ||
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sudo chown -R tomcat7:tomcat7 /var/lib/tomcat7/webapp/geoserver/data/data/feudaljapan1 | sudo chown -R tomcat7:tomcat7 /var/lib/tomcat7/webapp/geoserver/data/data/feudaljapan1 | ||
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=Geoserver= | |||
==Make Workspace== | |||
Geoserver > Data > Workspaces | |||
Create new workspace | |||
(I was having problems with this so I just reused another workspace) | |||
==Make Data Store== | |||
add new store, point to the directory where the shapefiles were copied (on the tomcat server). | |||
This should then prompt you to publish a layer associated with that data store. | |||
==Making a Layer== | |||
To turn the Shapefile into a layer, you must specify projection information. Unfortunately, Geoserver is not very good at this. Fortunately, you can use http://prj2epsg.org/ for a much more robust search of EPSG codes. I found the one I was looking for, that matched the data set about Feudal Japan: | |||
[[Image:FeudalJapanEpsg.png|500px]] | |||
Once I picked 4008 as my EPSG code, I was able to make the layer without any problems. | |||
=Leaflet= | |||
The final step was to use this new layer in a Leaflet map. | |||
[[Category:GIS]] | |||
[[Category:Leaflet]] | |||
Latest revision as of 20:15, 15 February 2015
This page covers the use of Geoserver to import GIS information about historical feudal Japan, in particular 1664 boundaries among daimyos. This data is available on Harvard's website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/japan/archive/
Prep for Geoserver
Copy Data
First, copy the data to the Tomcat server where Geoserver is running:
sudo cp -r jp_toku_dmyo_pgn /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geoserver/data/data/feudaljapan1 sudo chown -R tomcat7:tomcat7 /var/lib/tomcat7/webapp/geoserver/data/data/feudaljapan1
Geoserver
Make Workspace
Geoserver > Data > Workspaces
Create new workspace
(I was having problems with this so I just reused another workspace)
Make Data Store
add new store, point to the directory where the shapefiles were copied (on the tomcat server).
This should then prompt you to publish a layer associated with that data store.
Making a Layer
To turn the Shapefile into a layer, you must specify projection information. Unfortunately, Geoserver is not very good at this. Fortunately, you can use http://prj2epsg.org/ for a much more robust search of EPSG codes. I found the one I was looking for, that matched the data set about Feudal Japan:
Once I picked 4008 as my EPSG code, I was able to make the layer without any problems.
Leaflet
The final step was to use this new layer in a Leaflet map.