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GeoServer Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Stefano Iacovella
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GeoServer Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Stefano Iacovella

Overview of this book

GeoServer is an opensource server written in Java that allows users to share, process, and edit geospatial data. This book will guide you through the new features and improvements of GeoServer and will help you get started with it. GeoServer Beginner's Guide gives you the impetus to build custom maps using your data without the need for costly commercial software licenses and restrictions. Even if you do not have prior GIS knowledge, you will be able to make interactive maps after reading this book. You will install GeoServer, access your data from a database, and apply style points, lines, polygons, and labels to impress site visitors with real-time maps. Then you follow a step-by-step guide that installs GeoServer in minutes. You will explore the web-based administrative interface to connect to backend data stores such as PostGIS, and Oracle. Going ahead, you can display your data on web-based interactive maps, use style lines, points, polygons, and embed images to visualize this data for your web visitors. You will walk away from this book with a working application ready for production. After reading GeoServer Beginner's Guide, you will be able to build beautiful custom maps on your website using your geospatial data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Demos


A few demo applications are included with GeoServer.

The WCS request builder application is pretty handy to piece together a GetCoverage request. It's not something you'll likely do as a beginner, but it's worth remembering that the tool is available.

The Demo requests application has a number of example requests to query WCS, WFS, and WMS. Examples to delete, update, and insert records are also included. Consider the following screenshot:

Exploring Demo requests

You learned that WMS, WFS, and WCS are standards describing the interaction among clients and servers. Each standard defines a set of operations that, from a client's point of view, are requests. On the OGC site, you can download detailed documents describing each admitted request. The demo application is a valuable tool to help you practice with requests. Let's explore some basic operations:

  1. Open the Demo requests application. From the drop-down list, you can select a set of prepared requests. They are listed with a syntax declaring...