Assignment 1

Part 1.

• Download Openlayers from
  
• Unzip this file to your H: drive or C:\temp
• Use an SFTP client to upload to your public_html folder on Odin.pdx.edu
• Use a web browser to navigate to
  http://web.pdx.edu/~your-odin-name/OpenLayers-2.4/examples/
• Congratulations, you've just installed your first web-mapping application!
• Play around with the examples...
• You can look at how each one is configured by choosing View Source in your browser.

Part 2.

• Find WMS services on the web that are of interest to you in your area of research or interest. Send me an email with 5 URLs
• Do the same with WFS services.
• Create a "mashup" of WMS and WFS services using Openlayers.
  • You can install a better text editor to your c:\temp directory. Notepad++ or Jedit are recommended by some...
• Modify the markersTextLayer example and/or the VectorFeatures example to change locations of the data are displayed. Try to to get some REAL locations of things.

Extra Fun:

Download Udig and try out some your WFS and WMS services in an open source desktop GIS

Turn in the following:

• 5 URLs (websites) each of WMS and WFS service (10 total) with a description of each. Give me a sense of why you are interested in this particular set of data, or theme of geospatial data.
• your URL for the openlayers installation in your ODIN account, with an example that you have modified.