Neatline : Maps not displaying

I'm revisiting this after some time, but I can't seem to get the historical maps I have to display using Neatline + Geoserver.

Here is an example of the map: http://spacely.unl.edu:8080/geoserver/Buffalo_Bill/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=Buffalo_Bill:Nebraska&styles=&bbox=-104.4815769614424,38.7485479882616,-94.75809048861346,45.45319479444601&width=512&height=353&srs=EPSG:900913&format=application/openlayers

Following this (http://neatline.org/2012/08/29/using-neatline-with-historical-maps-part-3-geoserver/) I've set the Coordinate Reference System to EPSG:900913, set "Force declared" and recomputed both bounding box coordinates.

Now inside Neatline, I've set WMS Address to both http://spacely.unl.edu:8080/geoserver/Buffalo_Bill/wms and http://spacely.unl.edu:8080/geoserver/wms (neither seems to matter) and the WMS Layers to Buffalo_Bill:Nebraska.

Here is an example of the result: http://spacely.unl.edu/omeka/neatline/show/test

This is the output from gdalinfo on Nebraska.tif:


Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
Files: Nebraska.tif
Nebraska.tif.ovr
Nebraska.tfw
Nebraska.tif.aux.xml
Size is 7785, 5368
Coordinate System is:
GEOGCS["WGS 84",
DATUM["WGS_1984",
SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],
AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]]
Origin = (-104.481576961442400,45.453194794446013)
Pixel Size = (0.001249002758231,-0.001249002758231)
Metadata:
AREA_OR_POINT=Area
Image Structure Metadata:
INTERLEAVE=PIXEL
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left (-104.4815770, 45.4531948) (104d28'53.68"W, 45d27'11.50"N)
Lower Left (-104.4815770, 38.7485480) (104d28'53.68"W, 38d44'54.77"N)
Upper Right ( -94.7580905, 45.4531948) ( 94d45'29.13"W, 45d27'11.50"N)
Lower Right ( -94.7580905, 38.7485480) ( 94d45'29.13"W, 38d44'54.77"N)
Center ( -99.6198337, 42.1008714) ( 99d37'11.40"W, 42d 6' 3.14"N)
Band 1 Block=128x128 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Red
Min=0.000 Max=255.000
Minimum=0.000, Maximum=255.000, Mean=200.214, StdDev=62.962
NoData Value=256
Overviews: 1947x1342, 974x671, 487x336, 244x168
Metadata:
STATISTICS_MAXIMUM=255
STATISTICS_MEAN=200.21448908205
STATISTICS_MINIMUM=0
STATISTICS_STDDEV=62.962265351481
Band 2 Block=128x128 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Green
Min=0.000 Max=255.000
Minimum=0.000, Maximum=255.000, Mean=183.225, StdDev=61.985
NoData Value=256
Overviews: 1947x1342, 974x671, 487x336, 244x168
Metadata:
STATISTICS_MAXIMUM=255
STATISTICS_MEAN=183.22468298545
STATISTICS_MINIMUM=0
STATISTICS_STDDEV=61.984935830527
Band 3 Block=128x128 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Blue
Min=0.000 Max=255.000
Minimum=0.000, Maximum=255.000, Mean=164.620, StdDev=57.002
NoData Value=256
Overviews: 1947x1342, 974x671, 487x336, 244x168
Metadata:
STATISTICS_MAXIMUM=255
STATISTICS_MEAN=164.61973927659
STATISTICS_MINIMUM=0
STATISTICS_STDDEV=57.001952057387


Is there anything more I can provide to be helpful? Obviously I'm getting results from geoserver through OpenLayers, but Omeka/Neatline doesn't seem to be getting what it expects.

Hey Keith,

Hm, that header looks alright to me, but maybe I'm missing something. It looks like you're entering the WMS Layers/Address at the global level for the entire exhibit (in the "Add/Edit Exhibit" form), is that right? Real quick, let's try this - create an exhibit with regular spatial base layers, create a new record, and go to the "Style" tab, fill out the WMS Layers / Address information down in the "Imagery" fieldset, and save the record.

Does the map appear as an overlay? If not, email me the file, and I'll see if I can coax it into working (in the past, I've fixed problems like this by reprojecting the source file to EPSG:4326 and recreating the store on Geoserver).

Let me know what happens. Thanks,
- David

Following your instructions, I can see the option appear under the Overlays (e.g. using Buffalo_BIll:Nebraska and titling the Record as 'Nebraska', I get an option under Overlays to enable/disable 'Nebraska'), but nothing appears to change, the map doesn't appear/disappear when I change the option.

I'll zip up the Nebraska files and email them to you, but I'll need to do this for two other states, so hopefully each of the has the same or a similar problem.

Thanks
Keith

An update to others who might find this thread. It would appear that Omeka, Neatline, or Geoserver had some sort of problem with the map files we were using. We originally created them using WMA (World Mercator ??, EPSG:3395 I believe) but were having problems at the time with Geoserver not accepting them so we reprojected to EPSG:3857 -- WGS84 Web Mercator (the file mentioned above as an example) as per suggestions by the Neatline team at the time. Well, Geoserver was happy with that file, but Neatline refused to load the images. After some back and forth, and major updates to Omeka, Neatline and Geoserver, we have the map working using the original WMA projection files, although as per http://www.scholarslab.org/geospatial-and-temporal/using-neatline-with-historical-maps-geoserver/ in 'Option 2' point number (5), we did need to set 'Force declared' and have Geoserver reproject the map.