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AG2417 Web and Mobile GIS
Autumn 2012
Rui Zhu and Gyözö Gidófalvi
Lab 3&4: Open Source Solution: OpenLayers + GeoServer +
PostGIS
Due Sep 18
8. Task
In this exercise you will learn some of the most popular open source (server-side and client-side)
web mapping technologies. The series solution of OpenLayers + GeoServer + PostGIS will give
you a great start to build sophisticated WebGIS applications. Try your best to make this lab
perfect, since it can be a great preparation for your final project of this course.
This lab contains three consecutive exercises. In Part 1 you will get familiar with GeoServer web
admin interface. In Part 2 you will also explore the integration of a popular open source
client-side web mapping technology of OpenLayers to enrich the web GIS applications. In Part 3
you will be using data that are stored in plain files as well as PostgreSQL/PostGIS database.
9. Tutorials and Preparations
There are eight official websites that you should take a careful reading as tutorials before you
physically start the lab exercise. By reading the first three websites, you will get a main concept
of what GeoServer, OpenLayers and PostGIS are, and you will also understand the logical
structures between each of them.
Table 1. Open Source Official Websites
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Welcome
http://postgis.refractions.net/
http://www.opengeospatial.org/
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
The software stack and data sources used in labs 3&4 are preinstalled on a Virtual Machine
(VM). You can run this VM (a set of files) using VMware Player by opening a Virtual Machine and
selecting the .vmx file that is associated with the VM (ignore any error messages about copying
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