[Geoserver-users] Using GeoServer for no geographical coordinate systems.

[Shaw I. <sh...@im...>]

I'd like to use geoserver to store building floorplans in such a way that I
could import the floordplans as either a shapefile or raster and be able to
view them using openlayers or some other WMS client.  The problem I have is
that obviously floorplans have multiple overlapping versions depending on
the floor of the building, and secondly they don't need to have proper
georeferencing.

My idea is that I could create a custom CRS that's a flat projection with
meters as the unit and use an arbitrary datum on each of my floorplan images
(or shapfiles)

Ideally I would like to use vector based data because I could then further
extend the idea to do office to office routing etc.

Does anyone have experience with this sort of unconventional use of
geoserver or any feedback on whether my approach is a wise one, or whether
there might be a better way to do it?

Thanks!

Shaw

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