Thanks for the hint!<div><br></div><div>Please have a look at: <a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/553850/LevelsOfDetail.png">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/553850/LevelsOfDetail.png</a></div><div>The black line between the grey and the blue area is the level of detail Natural Earth provides for the borders between land and ocean - at least for what I found in their download area. The blue lines show the level of detail I am looking for. It is the port of Calais and I need to visualise as many details of the harbour basins as possible.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any suggestions? I downloaded the blue-lines-layer from the Europe-shapefile-base from cloudmade. Unfortunately they do not provide "land"-layers.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards, </div><div>
Andreas</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/9/6 Ian Turton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ijturton@gmail.com" target="_blank">ijturton@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 6 September 2012 10:08, Andreas Schnieders <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:schnieders.a@gmail.com" target="_blank">schnieders.a@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thank you for your quick response!<div><br></div><div>I'm a few steps further already:</div><div>I grouped all line- and polygon-layers together. Setting the background like this now works:</div><div><div><div><div>LAYERS: 'Europe',</div>
<div>STYLES: '',</div><div>format: format,</div><div>bgcolor: '0x001d54',</div><div>transparent: false</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>This results in a full dark blue background. All areas of the map, that are not line or polyon are dark blue now. BUT this just takes me to the next step of the problem. I want to distinguish between land and ocean/sea. The land-areas are somewhat defined by the coastline-layer. But I'm afraid, I will not manage to define a specific color for the area 'inside" the coastline, will I? If I specify a layer only containing the coastline and set the bgcolor for that layer, the whole world is colored as well, not just the area 'inside' the coastlines.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Do you see any other chance to just distinguish land-masses from water like the North Sea? Or do you now any source of high-res-mapdata usable with geoserver? shapefile preferred...?!</div><div><br></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Have a look at <a href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geoserver_quickstart.html" target="_blank">http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geoserver_quickstart.html</a> which talks you through the process of styling WMS layers in GeoServer. </div>
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