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GeoServer Beginner's Guide: Share geospatial data using Open Source standards , Second Edition

Iacovella

€28.99 ~~€32.99~~

3 (2 Ratings)

eBook Oct 2017 384 pages 2nd Edition

Iacovella

€28.99 ~~€32.99~~

3 (2 Ratings)

eBook Oct 2017 384 pages 2nd Edition

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Key benefits

Exploit the power of GeoServer to provide agile, flexible, and low -cost community projects
Share real-time maps quickly
Boost your map server's performance using the power and flexibility of GeoServer

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If you are a web developer with knowledge of server side scripting, have experience in installing applications on the server, and want to go beyond Google Maps by offering dynamically built maps on your site with your latest geospatial data stored in MySQL, PostGIS, MySQL, or Oracle, this is the book for you.

What you will learn

• Install GeoServer quickly
• Access dynamic real-time geospatial data that you can easily integrate into your own web-based application
• Create custom styles for lines, points, and polygons for great-looking maps
• Command GeoServer remotely using REST
• Tune your GeoServer instance for performance
• Move GeoServer into production
• Learn advanced topics to extend GeoServer s capabilities

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Product Details

Publication date : Oct 20, 2017

Length: 384 pages

Edition : 2nd

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781788294072

Category :

Programming

Concepts :

Geospatial Analysis

Tools :

Geoserver

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12 Chapters

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

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

Understanding the interface

The About & Status section

Adding Your Data

Configuring your data

Configuring vector data sources

Configuring raster data sources

Adding a raster

Exploring additional data sources

Accessing Layers

Exploring further Web Map Service output formats

Using the WMS Reflector

Summary

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

Exploring the Google Maps API

Using OpenLayers

Exploring Leaflet

Summary

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

Introducing REST

Using REST

Installing the Requests library

Administer GeoServer with REST

Summary

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 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 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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Fillock Feb 20, 2019

This is my first experience with Geoserver and I picked this book since it had the charming; "Beginner's Guide" in the title.The author has deep knowledge of the different topics of opensource software, server functionality, and map making. Certainly, it's a wide and complicated topic ranging all from security, server speed, map-making, map-styling, other free tools and a huge bunch of other topics, and the book makes a strong and good overview. If I would say one negative thing about the book, it's that the authors strongest side also may be his weakness; his wide experience and deep know-how makes him dig into topics beyond a beginners guide. A complete noob like me would likely know; "how to make a map as simple as possible and host it so others can see it on the internet?", and after that, you can start to add complexity. After I finished the book I still don't know this (maybe I missed it somewhere, I learned a lot about how to publish maps on my local network though).Anyhow; this book is so full of advice, extra tools, and best practice that I can't say I would have been without either. Everyone with ambitions on GeoServer should read it I would say.

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Prasad Boddupalli Oct 11, 2020

There is hardly any content in the book. It is an endless pages of screen shots of GeoServer administration. You dont need this book.

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About the author

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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