[OpenLayers-Users] bgcolor for WMS not working

[Ian Turton]

On 6 September 2012 10:08, Andreas Schnieders <schnieders.a at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you for your quick response!
>
> I'm a few steps further already:
> I grouped all line- and polygon-layers together. Setting the background
> like this now works:
> LAYERS: 'Europe',
> STYLES: '',
> format: format,
> bgcolor: '0x001d54',
> transparent: false
>
> 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.
>
> 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...?!
>
>
Have a look at http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/geoserver_quickstart.html
which
talks you through the process of styling WMS layers in GeoServer.

Ian
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Ian Turton
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