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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

Getting help


Throughout this book, you have learned a lot about web mapping and GeoServer; however, being an ultimate reference is far outside of this book's scope.

When you are in trouble or simply curious about the new features, there are a lot of online resources that can help you. The project site (http://geoserver.org) contains a lot of information about GeoServer. Besides the basic features, you can find descriptions of the community modules which are plugins developed by the contributors to address specific requirements. Maybe you will find something really useful to you.

The project blog http://blog.geoserver.org announces new releases, ideas, and contributions. Your RSS feed reader can't miss it!

There are two mailing lists, one user-oriented and the other for developers, that are hosted on sourceforge.net. Information and links to the subscription point are at http://geoserver.org/comm/.

Another relevant source of information and help is at http://gis.stackexchange.com, although it...