To run 52°North WPS on the Live DVD, go to Geospatial ‣ Web Services ‣ 52North ‣ Start 52North WPS to start the 52°North WPS or use this direct link. (If the service is not reachable, try to start the Tomcat servlet engine following the steps at the bottom of the SOS quickstart page.)
The 52n WPS welcome page will appear.
Check out the capabilities of the 52°North WPS with this request:
http://localhost:8080/52nWPS/WebProcessingService?Request=GetCapabilities&Service=WPS
Click on the link to open the 52nWPS-TestClient.
Make sure that you have started GeoServer since the demonstrations require data from the local GeoServer installation.
Push the Send-Button and the request will be transmitted to the 52°North WPS which will generate a buffer around the major roads of Tasmania with a width of 0.05 degrees and store the result in GeoServer.
Copy the ResourceID from the response. This is the name of the GeoServer layer. Add the ID to the following request: http://localhost:8082/geoserver/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&styles=&bbox=145.14757902405984,-43.47330297262748,148.32274986232298,-40.80286290459129&width=512&height=430&srs=EPSG:4326&format=application/openlayers&layers=Add-ResourceID-here You should get the following result:
Try out other example requests from the dropdown list of the WPS test client.
You could also install the WPS plugin for QGIS and try it out with the 52°North WPS.
For further questions you can contact the 52°North WPS mailing list: