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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

GeoServer Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Iacovella
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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

GeoServer Beginner's Guide

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By: Iacovella
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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 (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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GIS Fundamentals
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GIS Fundamentals
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What is GIS about?
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The foundation of any GIS - spatial data
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Measuring the world
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Understanding coordinate systems
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Representing geometrical shapes
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Modelling the real world with raster data
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Representing the world
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Adding more colors to your maps
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Summary
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Getting Started with GeoServer
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Getting Started with GeoServer
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Installing required components
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Configuring Tomcat as a service on Linux Mint
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Installing GeoServer
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Deploying GeoServer on Tomcat
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Implementing basic security
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Improving security settings
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Understanding the GeoServer release cycle
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Upgrading your installation
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Summary
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Exploring the Administrative Interface
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Exploring the Administrative Interface
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Understanding the interface
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The About & Status section
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The Data section
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The Services section
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Settings
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Tile Caching
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The Security panel
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Demos
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Summary
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Adding Your Data
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Adding Your Data
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Configuring your data
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Configuring vector data sources
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Configuring raster data sources
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Adding a raster
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Exploring additional data sources
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Summary
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Accessing Layers
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Accessing Layers
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Web services
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WMS formats
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Working with tiles
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Exploring further Web Map Service output formats
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Web Feature service
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Extra output options
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The TEXT/HTML format
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ImageMap
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Using the WMS Reflector
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Styling Your Layers
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Styling Your Layers
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Understanding Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)
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Editing styles
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Exploring the standard structure of a style
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Loading data for styling
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Working with point symbols
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LineString symbols
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Working with polygon symbols
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Adding labels
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Thematic mapping
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Setting visibility
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Putting it all together
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Styling with CSS
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Creating Simple Maps
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Creating Simple Maps
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Exploring the Google Maps API
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Using OpenLayers
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Exploring Leaflet
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Performance and Caching
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Performance and Caching
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Exploring GeoWebCache
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Configuring GeoWebCache
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Configuring Disk Quota
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Setting Caching Defaults
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Default layers options
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Configuring Tile Layers
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Using tiles with OpenLayers
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Seeding a layer
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Using an external GeoWebCache
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Automating Tasks - GeoServer REST Interface
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Automating Tasks - GeoServer REST Interface
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Introducing REST
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Using REST
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Installing the Requests library
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Managing data
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Using data stores
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Using feature types
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Publishing data
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Working with Layers
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Administer GeoServer with REST
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Securing GeoServer Before Production
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Securing GeoServer Before Production
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Basic Security Settings
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Defining users, groups, and roles
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Accessing data and services
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Securing layers
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Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment
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Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment
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Tuning Java
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Installing native JAI
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Removing unused services
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Enabling the Marlin rasterizer
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Setting a proxy
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Avoiding service faults
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Going Further - Getting Help and Troubleshooting
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Going Further - Getting Help and Troubleshooting
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Going beyond maps
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Delivering vector data
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Retrieving vector data
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Delivering raster data
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Retrieving raster data
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Advanced configuration - Database connection pooling
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Advanced configuration - Monitoring GeoServer
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Getting help
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Summary

GIS Fundamentals

In this chapter, you will learn the foundation of Geographic Information System (GIS) and spatial data. Although you do not need to understand these subjects in great depth to take advantage of the features of GeoServer, we will give you the basic information required to understand what you will be learning in this book. This chapter will introduce you to the magic of spatial data and processing.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Why spatial data is special
  • Spatial data formats
  • The magical world of Spatial Reference System (SRS)
  • What is a map and why does it matter?
  • The art of Cartography.

By the end of this chapter, you will have the basic skills to identify which spatial data format best suits your needs.

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