Instructions
supports publishing vector tiles and raster tiles as map services to browse and view them in the form of Web. Before you publish a service, you must ensure iServer has been started and you must be the administrator.
Basic Steps
- Run startup.bat/startup.sh under the iServer “bin” folder to start iServer.
- In the “Online” tab on the “Publish iServer Service” group, click the “Local Tiles” button to open the “Publish Local Tiles” dialog box.
- iServer Address: Click the drop-down button and select “New Connection”. In the pop-up dialog box, enter the service address, username, and password. The addresses accessed before will be saved automatically for further use. You can enter custom service addresses after the path iServer installation/webapps/iserver. Three iServer service address formats (localhost, http, and https) are compatible. The detail formats are:
- localhost:8090
- localhost:8090/iserver
- localhost:8090/userdefine
- http://localhost:8090
- http://localhost:8090/iserver
- http://localhost:8090/userdefine
- https://localhost:8443
- https://localhost:8443/iserver
- https://localhost:8443/userdefine
Note: If you do not start iServer service, you can not log in the service successfully.
- Tile Address : Select the configuration file (*.sci) you want to publish, the program can read and get data according to the file.
Upload Local Tiles : Specify whether to upload the local tiles. The service will not work when the file directory have some changes if you don’t upload local files. Here we check it.
- REST Service Map tiles can be published to REST map services. For details about types of REST services, please refer to REST Service.
- OGC Service : includes: WMS1.1.1, WMS1.3.0, WMS1.0.0, WMTS-CHINA. For specific instruction about OGC service types, please refer to OGC Service.
- Other Service : includes: ArcGIS REST Service, Google REST Service, Baidu REST Service.
- Click Publish. In the pop-up dialog box select data that you want to upload.
- For vector tiles, you can choose whether to upload tile data and style files.
- For raster tiles, you can choose whether to upload tile data.
- Click OK button to finalize the operation. Once the service is published successfully, relative prompts will be shown on the Output Window including the service address and browse address. You can click the browse address to view the result.
