• Tomcat
• GeoServer
• PostGIS

• download the war file found here
• copy the war file to tomcat_dir/webapps
• start tomcat

• create a database and install PostGIS

createdb licloud pgsql -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis-1.5/postgis.sql licloud psql -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis-1.5/postgis.sql licloud psql -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis-1.5/spatial_ref_sys.sql licloud

• create the dummy and metadata tables found in createtabs.sql psql -f createtabs.sql licloud psql -f deltemp.sql licloud

• add map layers (polygons/lines/points) which will later be used for thematics.

• Edit the tomcat_dir/webapps/GeoFuse/classes/properties/database.properties file to use your newly created postgis database

• Create a new postgis datastore
• Create a new layer.
• Click the Configure new SQL view...
• View name linker1
• SQL statement select a.*,the_geom from %linktab% a,%maptab% b where a.col0 = b.%mapcol%
• Click the Guess parameters from SQL. In the name {explain more the Deafult value parameters).
• Create another layer for linker2.

• In your browser, go to http://localhost:8080/geofuse/

  NOTE: This application will try to get only metric (numeric) fields to display in the Thematic attribute list. For numeric ID fileds (i.e. Prefecture-ID,Country-ID,etc.), add a suffix "-ID" to the fieldname so that it will not show in the attribute list.

tomcat_dir/webapps/GeoFuse/classes/properties/ database.properties dynamic_linker.properties thematic.properties

Adding new postgis table

Adding new background layer for printing

Adding new colorscheme

/webapps/geothematics/WEB-INF/classes/properties/thematic.properties

NOTE: the ColorNames and Colors should have equal number of items, otherwise no color choices will appear in the Colors list of the web page.

Deleting data

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