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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

Configuring Tile Layers


From the web interface, you can access the Tile Layers section. All the layers published on GeoServer and configured for caching are listed in this section, and you can review the status and the main parameters for each layer:

The first two columns display the Type and Layer Name values, and the third is for per layer Disk Quota. In GeoServer, this feature cannot be configured as in the GeoWebCache standalone version, so you can only see an N/A value here. The next column contains the size occupied on disk by the layer's tiles.

The next column shows you if the layer, configured for caching, is enabled to store tiles in the cache. Disabling caching on a layer without removing it from cached layers is useful when you want to temporarily disable layers from caching without losing the configuration.

If caching is enabled on a specific layer, you see a drop-down list with the gridsets associated to that layer, and by clicking on it, you can open a new webpage with a preview...