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GeoServer Cookbook

By : Stefano Iacovella
Book Image

GeoServer Cookbook

By: Stefano Iacovella

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
GeoServer Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using pyramids


Pyramids are a way to create overviews of your raster data. Overviews are really useful to enhance performance, especially when you have to serve a large amount of data. In this recipe, we will see how the plugin works and have a discussion about how GeoServer handles overviews.

How to do it…

  1. GeoServer needs an extension plugin to be able to handle pyramids; hence, the first step is to download and install the plugin. As usual, you need to visit the download page and download the zip archive. Visit the following URL:

    http://geoserver.org/release/stable/

  2. Get the archive by clicking on the Image Pyramid link in the Coverage Formats section, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Note

    Be sure to download the matching version of the plugin. If you're not using the latest stable release, instead of the previous URL, use the following URL and browse for your version folder:

    http://geoserver.org/download/

  3. Extract the .jar files contained within the archive into the WEB-INF/lib folder...