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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

Summary


We explored the integrated GeoWebCache, and how it may affect GeoServer performances. Deploying a properly configured production site requires caching unless your planned users are very few.

Configuring a map cache requires you to act not only on the server side but also on the client side. Clients should know how you cached the data and compiled proper map requests for the benefit of precalculated tiles. We used JavaScript and OpenLayers to take a look at the client side.

GeoServer integrates a pretty interface to configure cache; however, as your site grows and you find yourself increasingly adding and removing layers, you may wonder if a way of automating the configuration exists.

In the next chapter, we will explore the GeoServer REST interface. REST exposes most of the GeoServer interfaces through HTTP calls. Using a scripting language, you can build simple procedures that help you in performing repetitive tasks.

We will see how to use the REST interface to add data stores and workspaces...