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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 – installing the Requests library


We stated before that Python mainly aims at simplicity and code readability, but unfortunately this is not always the case. Interacting with REST using the standard Python libraries can be painfully laborious. Luckily, there is an open source project that can solve this. The project produced a library called Requests, and I have to say it really is an appropriate name. So let's install it!

  1. As the first step, you need to download the ZIP or TAR archive containing the library code:

    ~$ wget https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/tarball/master -O master.tar.gz
    ~$ ls -al
    drwxrwxr-x 2 stefano stefano   4096 Oct 15 08:01 ./
    drwxr-xr-x 9 stefano stefano   4096 Oct 15 07:41 ../
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 stefano stefano 720204 Oct 15 08:02 master.tar.gz
    
  2. Now extract the archive content:

    ~$ tar xvfz master.tar.gz
    
    
  3. Enter the new folder and install it into your site package:

    ~$ cd kennethreitz-requests-c03e893
    ~$ sudo python setup.py install
    
  4. Installation is now...