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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 had a concise introduction to the GeoServer web interface. Hopefully, you are now more confident with every section, and you have a good idea of how they work.

Specifically, we covered how you can retrieve information on general configuration, server status, and logs. Next, we explored the interface section where you can configure data access, create new layers, and publish them.

In this chapter, we also covered service-specific configurations for WFS, WMS, and WCS.

GeoServer's developers constantly take great efforts to enforce standard compliance. In this area, you can tune the services and discover the vendor options that GeoServer offers you.

Finally, we explored two areas that were greatly improved in recent GeoServer releases--caching and security configuration.

All of these topics will be further explored in the following chapters.

In the next chapter, we will explore data stores. You will add new data to GeoServer. Not only will you use the shapefile and PostGIS built-in data...