Error Data Loading and How to Connect MapStore to Postgres

[Wendi Adrian]

Hi All,

Greetings to everyone. I am Mapstore new user.

I have some questions for you:

1. How to add data stored in GeoServer into MapStore? When I tried to add data using WFS, there is red exclamation mark show data not properly loaded

2. If I have a PostgreSQL and PostGIS db, how I connect it to MapStore. I have tried to read documentation but looks like there is wrong information within it, example: replace geostore-database-ovr with postgres.properties but I do not see any file called geostore-database-ovr inside the folder.

3. If I want to show the layer based on attribute and display label, how to do that in MapStore?

Thank you.

Cheers,

Wendi

[Lorenzo Natali]

Hi,

sorry for the late response. 

1. This can happen for some reasons. I should see the request effective error in the network tab of the developer tools to see what happendd. WMS layers works instead?

2. The file is named geostore-datasource-ovr.properties and it is located in /WEB-INF/classes folder mapstore.war archive. We usually suggest to externalize this file by following the guide here, so you can edit the file outside the application and re-deploy future MapStore releases by overwriting the war file, keeping the configuration untouched. (Note: the database is used by mapstore to store users, roles, maps... GeoSpatial data in general is usually provided by a separated GeoServer). 

3. We usually delegate this to GeoServer. MapStore is more a client, that display data from WMS, WFS or other sources and allows to group them in map or create contents based on that data. In particular to display labels I suggest the WMS format, editing the style on GeoServer.