In this serie of articles I will show you how to install and configure an open source web mapping solution to make your own Google Maps but based only on open-source and OGC standards (mainly WFS, WMS and SLD).We will try to cover all aspects of the solution, including the data storage, the middleware/application server as well as the web client. We will look at the global solution as a typical 3-tiers solution, very common in web application development:
- level 1: a data storage, usually a database system but it can be also shapefiles and many other formats,
- level 2: the application server, delivering web services through a web server,
- level 3: the web browser or client.
To simplify the process we will install all tiers on the same machine for testing purpose, but you could install the database and application server in different servers, it will not change much (we will consider the different changes later).
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