[OpenLayers-Users] Which server to use for geotiff images

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:05:10AM -0500, John Preston wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to setup a server which will be accessed with a
> openlayers client. I have geocoded geotiff satellite images and vector
> shape files to be viewed. Can anyone tell me which opensource wfs server
> (preferably java based) I should use that will work with openlayers.

A couple things:
 * You want a WMS server to serve your rasters, not a WFS server. The
   WFS server can serve feature data, but OpenLayers currently only
   supports drawing point data via WFS. THis means you will need to
   render your vector data in a WMS server as well.
 * OpenLayers is explicitly designed to work with any WMS server. 
   So you can use any WMS server that you can set up. 
 * If you're looking for Java, the one I know off the top of my head is
   GeoServer. There may be others, that's just the one I know.

Regards,

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Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer