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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

Configuring tile layers


From the web interface, you can access the Tile layers section. All the layers published on GeoServer and configured for caching are listed in this section, and you can review the status and the main parameters for each layer.

The first two columns display the Type and Layer Name, and the third is for per layer Disk Quota. In GeoServer 2.2, the per layer disk quota is not checked and cannot be configured as in the GeoWebCache standalone version, so you can only see an N/A value here. The next column contains the size occupied on disk by the layer's tiles.

The next column shows you if the layer, configured for caching, is enabled to store tiles in the cache. Disabling caching on a layer without removing it from cached layers is useful when you want to temporarily disable layers from caching without losing the configuration.

If caching is enabled on a specific layer, you see a drop-down list with the gridsets associated to that layer, and by clicking on it you can open...