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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

By : Iacovella

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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

3 (2)

By: 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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

GIS Fundamentals

GIS Fundamentals

What is GIS about?

The foundation of any GIS - spatial data

Measuring the world

Understanding coordinate systems

Representing geometrical shapes

Modelling the real world with raster data

Representing the world

Adding more colors to your maps

Summary

Getting Started with GeoServer

Getting Started with GeoServer

Installing required components

Configuring Tomcat as a service on Linux Mint

Installing GeoServer

Deploying GeoServer on Tomcat

Implementing basic security

Improving security settings

Understanding the GeoServer release cycle

Upgrading your installation

Summary

Exploring the Administrative Interface

Exploring the Administrative Interface

Understanding the interface

The About & Status section

The Data section

The Services section

Settings

Tile Caching

The Security panel

Demos

Summary

Adding Your Data

Adding Your Data

Configuring your data

Configuring vector data sources

Configuring raster data sources

Adding a raster

Exploring additional data sources

Summary

Accessing Layers

Accessing Layers

Web services

WMS formats

Working with tiles

Exploring further Web Map Service output formats

Web Feature service

Extra output options

The TEXT/HTML format

ImageMap

Using the WMS Reflector

Summary

Styling Your Layers

Styling Your Layers

Understanding Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)

Editing styles

Exploring the standard structure of a style

Loading data for styling

Working with point symbols

LineString symbols

Working with polygon symbols

Adding labels

Thematic mapping

Setting visibility

Putting it all together

Styling with CSS

Summary

Creating Simple Maps

Creating Simple Maps

Exploring the Google Maps API

Using OpenLayers

Exploring Leaflet

Summary

Performance and Caching

Performance and Caching

Exploring GeoWebCache

Configuring GeoWebCache

Configuring Disk Quota

Setting Caching Defaults

Default layers options

Configuring Tile Layers

Using tiles with OpenLayers

Seeding a layer

Using an external GeoWebCache

Summary

Automating Tasks - GeoServer REST Interface

Automating Tasks - GeoServer REST Interface

Introducing REST

Using REST

Installing the Requests library

Managing data

Using data stores

Using feature types

Publishing data

Working with Layers

Administer GeoServer with REST

Summary

Securing GeoServer Before Production

Securing GeoServer Before Production

Basic Security Settings

Defining users, groups, and roles

Accessing data and services

Securing layers

Summary

Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment

Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment

Tuning Java

Installing native JAI

Removing unused services

Enabling the Marlin rasterizer

Setting a proxy

Avoiding service faults

Summary

Going Further - Getting Help and Troubleshooting

Going Further - Getting Help and Troubleshooting

Going beyond maps

Delivering vector data

Retrieving vector data

Delivering raster data

Retrieving raster data

Advanced configuration - Database connection pooling

Advanced configuration - Monitoring GeoServer

Getting help

Summary

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Installing GeoServer

We are well on our way! Go to the GeoServer download page as shown in the following screenshot (http://geoserver.org/download/) and review the installation options available. You will find some different packages for GeoServer. We will use the Web Archive version:

You may select a release from two different branches--Stable and Maintenance. Both of them are built for production purposes, so you can choose whatever you prefer; also, we suggest you select the latest release as it contains all the new features the developer team has just released.

Apart from the Production tab, you may have noted there are two other sections--Development and Archived. Inside the Development section, you will find a nightly build, these releases are not suitable for production as they may be prone to bugs, but it contains all the changes the developers did on the source code...

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