Geoserver OilGas

This page covers my attempt to get EIA oil and gas lease data into Geoserver.

The data source: https://github.com/talllguy/EIA-Oil-Gas-Maps

Prj2EPSG tool: http://prj2epsg.org/

Put the Data on the Server

Copy the data to a place where Geoserver can see it:

cd EIA-Oil-Gas-Maps
sudo cp -r shapefiles /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/geoserver/data/data/oilgas1
sudo chown -R tomcat7:tomcat7 /var/lib/tomcat7/webapp/geoserver/data/data/oilgas1

Make Workspace

The first step is to create a workspace, which I'll call "oilgas".

Geoserver > Data > Workspaces, and create new workspace

Make Data Store

The next step is to create a data store, which is a directory of shape files. I point to the data in the oilgas1 directory.

Dealing with Projection Issues

I had some issues with the projection not being found. I ended up opening the .prj projection file (in the same directory as the shapefile), and using http://prj2epsg.org/ to find the corresponding EPSG code. Once I found the code (a four- or five-digit number), I was able to search for it, and find it. This allowed Geoserver to correctly interpret the shapefile data.