[Geomoose-users] TEST - Setting up GeoMoose on Ubuntu 11.10 - NOTES

Mon Apr 23 11:54:53 EDT 2012

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> From: Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
>To: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org 
>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 10:44 AM
>Subject: [Geomoose-users] TEST - Setting up GeoMoose on Ubuntu 11.10 - NOTES
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>All, 
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>I set up GeoMoose 2.6 on Linux over the weekend.   I'm not completely adept at this so some of my notes may seem on the more basic side of things, but I think they bear out the need to further explain things in the Linux (Ubuntu section of the) installation Doc's. 
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>The demo code installed very nicely all in all.  The GeoMoose interface popped up the first time after following the instructions.    The biggest problem, was I ran into some dependency problems with GDAL and the new version of MapServer 6.x, which is required by GM2.6.  Jim helped me with the dependency problems , but this needs to be noted someplace in the release notes, as everyone doesn't have as easy access to Jim as I do.  :c)  It seems that the Version of GDAL required by Mapserver 6.x is too new for a complied version to exist for Ubuntu 11.10, I was trying with the STABLE releases and Jim tells me the unstable was needed in order to build things as required by GM2.6. 
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>Anyway, on to my notes (I'll be the first to admit that I went into this very cold, but I also figured it would be good to go through the process of setting up the new install of GeoMoose): 
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>	* Couldn't easily finds the page for Unix installation for GM 2.6, what's the route from the GeoMoose.org/trunk . . .  site front page?     I've since been pointed here :http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/docs/install_unix.html, but does it make any sense to add in a sub heading (grouping) for "Installation" on this page: http://www.geomoose.org/trunk/docs/install_unix.html.  I honestly did not see the install guides at the bottom  of the first section of links.  I was looking for the something that started with "Installation". Maybe this is too picky on my part. 
>>	* Didn't know where local_settings.ini was located (or supposed to be located) right off.     The description about the settings.ini file was confusing to me on the LINUX install page.  A piece in there about where the file ends up on the (ubuntu) system would help. 
>>	* I used a nightly, should add in a item about adding in a LINK to the geomoose-nightly folder that was created from the install or changing the name.  Yes I know, this is not the normal procedure and the in-the-know folks will know what to do, but coming from the know-nothings (or the know-littles (like me) this would have helped. 
>>	* Got warning when restarting Apache (I like it though, it tells me the conf file was read, any way to make this error on purpose, or was that the idea to begin with?)
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>>	* root at trak1:/etc/apache2/conf.d# apachectl restart
>>[Wed Apr 18 08:15:07 2012] [warn] Useless use of AllowOverride in line 4 of /etc/apache2/conf.d/geomoose.conf.
>>apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 108.166.85.170 for ServerName
>>root at trak1:/etc/apache2/conf.d# 
>>	* add UbuntuGIS repository (I needed unstable )     This is where the problems started for me in getting MapServer to work.  As noted above, unstable was needed.  shoukld a note about where UbuntuGIS is (or the fact that it's a Webserver location) be added into the doc?
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>>	* Locations on UBUNTU to know about: 
>>	* /usr/share/proj/epsg  (proj file for adding in your EPSG codes, make a backup first) 
>>	* NOTE: I needed to add my custom Projection instead of using a projection block in theMapfile.  I couldn't get MapServer to work the projection no matter what I did, may be related to the data source being POSTGIS.     So, it seems with the WMS only appraoch, that the Projections must exist in the local PROJ.4 (epsg) file listing before the WMS calls work correctly.  Iwas trying to add some PostGIS layers to the interface, but the WMS calls seemed to ignore anything I put into the SQL call about SRID until I had the projection added to the local EPSG file list.  A straight mapserver call worked just fine by changing the SRID in the SQL call to POSTGIS, but the WMS call required I have the code in the local EPSG file.  I'll admit, that I probably didn't have something set up someplace that was required, but once I added the EPSG code to MapServer's )PROJ.4:EPSG) list all was well. 
>>	* Ok, It's been a while since I configured GeoMoose, but the Folder(src) and Mapfile(layername) combination stuff is something to make note of.      This one was a little alien to me, fist time I've had to set up the SRC and LAYER naming sections (the new way of GeoMoose configuration) on my own.  The whole folder/layer naming combinations stuff, defintely needs to be written down somewhere in the installation dos.  It took me a while to figure out I needed a separate folder/layer naming combination to make things unique in the catalog.  I was originally trying to add layers from the same folder, and using the mentality that that first part of the A/B description was the folder location, then the next part would be the file name, but it ended up the second part was the LAYER name in the WMS block, not the file name.  Anyway, I went round and round on this for a while until I stumbled on the right combination of things.So, I can add these
 notes as appropriate to the LINUX install page, any problems with that from anyone?  I think I'll key these notes as UBUNTU 11.10 as well, where that applies.Oh, and here is the running product: http://108.166.85.170/geomoose/geomoose.htmlSome additional notes on the GM interface:*** is the Google layer popup required for every navigation action?  The popup display for every zoom pan operation for any of the Google Layers.*** I had some feedback from a couple of users as well.      *** The metadats links (Binoc's Icon), can they point to some real looking metadata instead of www.geomoose.org (I'm willing to put something together for this)    *** the USGS TOPO QUADS are real slow to load, Can we add in a "(slow)" tag to the layer name for this layer?  I know it's an offsite link.  Or perhaps a Metadata link could indicate this in some way.    *** Is the rest example supposed to build a Legend icon out of the basemap when turned
 on?    *** The Yahoo layers don't seem to work at the bottom levels correctly?bobb 
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