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GeoServer Cookbook

GeoServer Cookbook

By : Iacovella
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GeoServer Cookbook

GeoServer Cookbook

4.8 (6)
By: Iacovella

Overview of this book

This book is ideal for GIS experts, developers, and system administrators who have had a first glance at GeoServer and who are eager to explore all its features in order to configure professional map servers. Basic knowledge of GIS and GeoServer is required.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Publishing raster data with WCS

The WCS option is always present in the panel to configure services. As we already noted, WCS is used to publish raster data, so this may sound odd to you. Indeed, ArcGIS for Server lets you enable the WCS option, only if the map project for the service contains one of the following:

  • A map containing raster or mosaic layers
  • A raster or mosaic dataset
  • A layer file referencing a raster or mosaic dataset
  • A geodatabase that contains raster data

If you try to enable the WCS option on SampleWorldCities, you won't get an error. Then, try to ask for the capabilities:

$ curl -XGET "http://localhost/arcgis/services/SampleWorldCities/MapServer/WCSServer?SERVICE=WCS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetCapabilities" -o capabilitiesArcGISWCS.xml

You'll get a proper document, compliant to the standard and well formatted, but containing no reference to any dataset. Indeed, the sample service does not contain any raster data:

<Capabilities xsi:schemaLocation...

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