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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   GeoServer Beginner's Guide Share geospatial data using Open Source standards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297370
Length 384 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. GIS Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 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

The Services section


When you publish your data, GeoServer exposes it through standard services, that is, WMS for maps, WFS for features, WCS for coverages, and WMTS for map tiles. Each one of them can be configured from this section, changing the default settings. You can also selectively disable them. This may be useful to increase the GeoServer performance on small servers. By default, all services are enabled:

WMTS

Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) is an OGC standard protocol to serve pre-rendered georeferenced map tiles over the internet. On the administration interface, you can change the service metadata, or enable and disable the service. Please note that WMTS is delivered from the integrated GeoWebCache so if GWC is disabled then WMTS would not be available.

WMS

Web Map Server (WMS) is an OGC standard to publish data as maps. The GetMap operation, as defined by the standard, lets a client request maps as images; for example, a .png or .jpeg file.

From this section, you can change the service...

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