GeoServer Beginner’s Guide 2E

This step-by-step guide will teach you how to use GeoServer to build custom and interactive maps using your data.

Stefano Iacovella 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2017년 10월 20일 출간

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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.

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▶TABLE of CONTENTS
1: GIS FUNDAMENTALS
2: GETTING STARTED WITH GEOSERVER
3: EXPLORING THE ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACE
4: ADDING YOUR DATA
5: ACCESSING LAYERS
6: STYLING YOUR LAYERS
7: CREATING SIMPLE MAPS
8: PERFORMANCE AND CACHING
9: AUTOMATING TASKS - GEOSERVER REST INTERFACE
10: SECURING GEOSERVER BEFORE PRODUCTION
11: TUNING GEOSERVER IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT
12: GOING FURTHER - GETTING HELP AND TROUBLESHOOTING

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▶Editorial Review
Nowadays, web mapping is all over the internet. User friendly interfaces and efficiency are mandatory requirements for GIS, as for any other system. If you are going to start a new web mapping application, you will not start from scratch. GeoServer is one of the biggest players in the web mapping field. It has a solid developer community and a high maturity level.
Although it's not an easy piece of software to master, the latest releases have greatly improved stability and ease of management. GeoServer Beginner's Guide offers you a practical introduction to GeoServer. Beginning with the installation and basic usage, you will learn to use the administration interface for adding data, configuring layers, customizing OGC services, and securing your site. You will find many step-by-step examples covering topics from data store configuration to layer publication and style customization. If all this sounds new and strange to you, don't worry; GeoServer Beginner's Guide will introduce you to the fundamentals of GIS and will then clearly explain all the basic tasks performed in order to build maps. This book is meant to expand your knowledge of web mapping from something you have either heard of or have practiced a little into something you can apply at any level to meet your needs in incorporating maps into a site. I hope you will enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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저자(글) Stefano Iacovella

Stefano Iacovella is a long-time GIS developer and consultant living in Rome, Italy. He also works as a GIS courses instructor, and he has a PhD. in Geology. Being a very curious person, he developed a deep knowledge of IT technologies, mainly focused on GIS software and related standards. Starting his career as an ESRI employee, he was exposed to and became confident with proprietary GIS software, mainly the ESRI suite of products. In the last 14 years, he has become more and more involved with Open Source software, also integrating it with proprietary software. He loves the Open Source approach and really trusts in the collaboration and sharing of knowledge. He strongly believes in the Open Source idea and constantly manages to spread it out, not limiting it to the GIS sector. He has been using GeoServer since release 1.5 by configuring, deploying, and hacking it on several projects. Other GFOSS projects he uses and likes are GDAL/OGR, PostGIS, QGIS, and OpenLayers. He is the author of the GeoServer Cookbook, which consists of a set of recipes to use GeoServer at an advanced level, by Packt, and he has also authored the first edition of this book. When not playing with maps and geometric shapes, he loves reading about science, mainly Physics and Maths, riding his bike, and having fun with his wife and two daughters, Alice and Luisa.