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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788297370

Length 384 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Geoserver

Concepts

Geospatial Analysis

Author (1):

Stefano Iacovella

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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

GIS Fundamentals

In this chapter, you will learn the foundation of Geographic Information System (GIS) and spatial data. Although you do not need to understand these subjects in great depth to take advantage of the features of GeoServer, we will give you the basic information required to understand what you will be learning in this book. This chapter will introduce you to the magic of spatial data and processing.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Why spatial data is special
Spatial data formats
The magical world of Spatial Reference System (SRS)
What is a map and why does it matter?
The art of Cartography.

By the end of this chapter, you will have the basic skills to identify which spatial data format best suits your needs.

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ISBN-13: 9781788297370

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Authors (1)

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.

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