In this chapter, we gained some basic but essential understanding about the architecture of the web. We learned how to easily provide spatial data with QGIS Server. We also learned some of the basic principles of GeoServer, and how we can create a starting configuration, which we can later expand by gaining additional experience with the system. We discussed standardized OGC services called OWS, and how they work in practice. We managed to not only add some of our own spatial data to GeoServer and visualize the results, but also see how we can tile them, speeding up the server's response.
In the next chapter, we will learn about styling spatial data in GeoServer. Styling is not only one of the corner points of publishing spatial data, but also a weak point of GeoServer, as it offers way more possibilities than documentation. Creating styles can look cumbersome, fiddling, and way too scary to get into. We will see how we can better understand SLD styling, and what other, more efficient...