Installation of GIS Tools on Windows

Suggest these CLI tools for data manipulation:

• ​Convert SRTM to GeoTIFF

GDAL

For ogr2ogr, gis.import_admin_areas etc

• ​http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk/

• Download the latest 32-bit version.
• Install both the Windows binaries & the Python bindings.
  • Currently:
    • ​http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk/Download.aspx?file=release-1600-gdal-1-10-0-mapserver-6-2-1\gdal-110-1600-core.msi
    • ​http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk/Download.aspx?file=release-1600-gdal-1-10-0-mapserver-6-2-1\GDAL-1.10.0.win32-py2.7.msi
• set your GDAL_DATA environment variable correctly
• ensure that the GDAL folder is in your PATH *before* any folders with different DLL versions

PostGIS

• ​http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows
• ​http://postgis.refractions.net/download/windows/

Alternatively these can be installed as part of ​OpenGeoSuite

Java

• ​Download the JDK & install it: jdk-6u21-windows-i586.exe
• ​Download the JAI & install it: jai-1_1_3-lib-windows-i586-jdk.exe
• ​Download the JAI ImageI/O & install it: jai_imageio-1_1-lib-windows-i586-jdk.exe

Apache Tomcat

​Tomcat is the recommended way to deploy Java applications

• ​http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

WMS/WFS

​GeoServer

(recommended)

• ​Download GeoServer & install it: geoserver-2.0.2.exe

e.g. included as part of ​OpenGeoSuite

​http://geo.host.domain:8080/geoserver

Configure:

• ​http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/production/index.html

​MapServer

• ​TinyOWS can complement this for WFS-T

Printing

For Printing TMS layers, need to compile the Trunk version of the ​MapFish Print Module & then serve the resultant .war with ​Tomcat:

1. Ensure that JAVA_HOME points to a JDK.
2. Download & build source (svn can be installed using Cygwin):

   svn checkout http://www.mapfish.org/svn/mapfish/print/trunk/
   cd trunk
   ./gradlew build
   

3. Configure Tomcat

tbc

4. Copy the WAR file to your %WEBAPPS% directory:

   copy trunk\build\libs\print-servlet-1.2-SNAPSHOT.war "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps"
   

5. (re)Start Tomcat
6. Configure the Map URL for Eden to:
   • ​http://localhost:8080/print-servlet-1.2-SNAPSHOT/pdf/
7. Configure %WEBAPPS%\print-servlet-1.2-SNAPSHOT\config.yaml: ​http://www.mapfish.org/doc/print/configuration.html

TileCache

• ​http://tilecache.org
  • ​http://oegeo.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/the-5-minute-guide-to-setting-up-tilecache-on-windows/
    • Install Python & PIL & pyproj [_imagingft.pyd fails with PIL-1.1.7 (on 64-bit Windows7 anyway), so downgrade]

• ​http://geowebcache.org
  • e.g. included as part of ​OpenGeoSuite

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