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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

GeoServer is an open source server-side software written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards. GeoServer allows you to display your spatial information to the world. Implementing the Web Map Service (WMS) standard, GeoServer can create maps in a variety of output formats. OpenLayers, a free mapping library, is integrated into GeoServer, making map generation quick and easy. GeoServer is built on Geotools, an open source Java GIS toolkit.GeoServer Beginner's Guide gives you a kick start 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, style points, lines, polygons, and labels to impress site visitors with real-time maps.Follow along through a step-by-step guide that installs GeoServer in minutes. Explore the web-based administrative interface to connect to backend data stores such as MySQL, PostGIS, MSSQL, and Oracle. Display your data on web-based interactive maps, style lines, points, polygons, and embed images to visualize this data for your web visitors. Walk away from this book with a working application ready for production.After reading the GeoServer Beginner's Guide, you will have beautiful, custom maps on your website built using your geospatial data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
GeoServer Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – disabling unused services


Now you should turn off WMS and WFS, or WFS-T, according to your needs:

  1. Open the GeoServer web interface. On the left pane, you can see the Services category and under it WCS, WFS, and WMS are listed. Select WCS.

  2. Remove the flag from the Enable WCS checkbox to disable the service and click on the Submit button:

  3. Now select WFS in the Services category. If you don't want to deliver features to your users, disable the service as you did for WCS:

  4. If you want to give your user an option to download geometry, leave the service enabled. Scroll down until you find the Maximum number of features textbox. This value limits the number of records returned on a single GetFeature request. Lower the default value to 10000:

  5. In the very next section, set the Service Level option. Select Basic and then click on the Submit button:

  6. Now select WMS in the Services category. Of course you want to disable the WMS service, but you can set some values to optimize map rendering...