1. Download latest stable version from http://geoserver.org/download/

Start the server with:

%GEOSERVER_HOME%\bin\startup.bat

stopping with

%GEOSERVER_HOME%\bin\shutdown.bat

if it is running, you can access GeoServer on http://localhost:8080/geoserver/web/ login with default username ‘admin’, password ‘geoserver’

if you cannot access Geoserver check the error messages in the console window or logfile, usually an enviroment variable or Java installation is wrong.

Assuming you started from an empty data directory.

1. Copy your data into a subdirectory in %GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR%\data
2. create a workspace with a same WORKSPACENAME
3. add new store with the data you copied in 1.
4. add new layer with the store and some name LAYERNAME, set bouding box with ‘Compute from native bounds ‘
5. add a style for the layer and publish, maybe you have to create a new style for lines/text
6. view layer data in layer preview

1. Create new layer
2. Layer Type Imaginary
3. Set Layer class to match the usecase; e.g. select map for street information
4. set Driver WMS
5. set URL to http://localhost:8080/geoserver/WORKSPACENAME/wms
6. set Layername to WORKSPACENAME:LAYERNAME
7. set Transparancy, probably to yes
8. Press “Apply”
9. In Configurator enable the layer in the GIS view (it may take a while until you see something); make sure the GIS view is within the layer bounding box

repeat above for each layer you want to see, if you show multiple layers always together, it is better to create a Layergroup in GeoServer and show this as a single layer in Terra. Using too many GeoServer layers in Terra will degrade performance significantly.

If you change layers in Geoserver you have to clear the Terra4D cache before you will see the changes in Terra – best test layer changes first in the GeoServer preview..

1. Styles (SLD) files for OSM data
   1. https://github.com/mitchelljj/openstreetmap-sld
   2. https://github.com/FlorentDotMe/archives/tree/master/2013.03.23-OSM-Styles-for-GeoServer
2. http://www.gdal.org/drv_osm.html (GDAL OSM driver doc)
3. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features (list of features in OSM)
4. If an attribute is referenced (used) by a style file (SLD) the GeoServer throws an exception with the information about the missing attribute. The exception is visible in the console of the GeoServer start batch.