On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Roger Bedell <[email protected]> wrote: > Another awe-inspiring moment provided by GeoServer. > > Recently, MSRMAPS (used to be TerraServer), a WMS server for DRGs and > DOQs is being dropped by Microsoft. Nobody really cares about the > DOQs, but this was just about the only DRG WMS server out there. > > Looking around, I found that the USGS has a DRG server: > > http://raster.nationalmap.gov/ArcGIS/services/DRG/TNM_Digital_Raster_Graphics/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS > > However it is split into UTM zones and different resolutions. I just > wanted 4326 for the entire US, like Terraserver. > > So, I created a GeoServer Amazon EC2 Micro (free for a year) instance > using the basic Amazon Linux AMI ami-e565ba8c, and put on just Tomcat > and Geoserver 2.2 Beta 2: > > sudo yum update > sudo yum install httpd httpd-devel tomcat7 > wget > http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/2.2-beta2/geoserver-2.2-beta2-war.zip/download > unzip geoserver-2.2-beta2-war.zip > sudo chown tomcat:tomcat geoserver.war > sudo mv geoserver.war /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ > sudo /sbin/service httpd start > sudo /sbin/service tomcat7 start > > and then added a WMS Store and used the GetCapabilities above. It > automatically adds all the layers and publishes them. > > Then I put together a Layer Group with all the layers, the only change > was to check the "Default Style" box, otherwise I would get a WMS > error. > Set the coordinate system for the Layer Group to EPSG:4326, and it worked. > > Thank you GeoServer team!
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