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GeoServer Cookbook

By : Stefano Iacovella
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GeoServer Cookbook

By: Stefano Iacovella

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
GeoServer Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Keyhole Markup Language styling


Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML-based language built by Google™ and is mainly used in its desktop mapping product, Google Earth™. It allows the user to virtually view, pan, and fly around the imagery of the Earth.

Playing with imagery can be really nice; if you haven't yet, you should try just wandering on remote areas of the planet and explore areas where once the Here be Dragons label were the most common among labels: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons).

However, the program is way more than a videogame and if you add it to your data, it becomes a very powerful and accessible tool for 3D visualization.

How do you make GeoServer and Google Earth™ interoperate? It is here that KML comes to your rescue. Google Earth™ can read and visualize data formatted in KML; on the other hand, GeoServer is capable of responding to your requests on formatting data in KML. Then, every layer published on GeoServer can easily be used in Google Earth.

Getting...