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GeoServer Beginner's Guide
GeoServer Beginner's Guide

GeoServer Beginner's Guide: Share and edit geospatial data with this open source software server

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Key benefits

  • Learn free and open source geospatial mapping without prior GIS experience
  • Share real-time maps quickly
  • Learn step-by-step with ample amounts of illustrations and usable code/list

Description

GeoServer is an open source server-side software written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards. GeoServer allows you to display your spatial information to the world. Implementing the Web Map Service (WMS) standard, GeoServer can create maps in a variety of output formats. OpenLayers, a free mapping library, is integrated into GeoServer, making map generation quick and easy. GeoServer is built on Geotools, an open source Java GIS toolkit.GeoServer Beginner's Guide gives you a kick start 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, style points, lines, polygons, and labels to impress site visitors with real-time maps.Follow along through a step-by-step guide that installs GeoServer in minutes. Explore the web-based administrative interface to connect to backend data stores such as MySQL, PostGIS, MSSQL, and Oracle. Display your data on web-based interactive maps, style lines, points, polygons, and embed images to visualize this data for your web visitors. Walk away from this book with a working application ready for production.After reading the GeoServer Beginner's Guide, you will have beautiful, custom maps on your website built using your geospatial data.

Who is this book for?

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

What you will learn

  • Install GeoServer quickly
  • Access your dynamic real-time geospatial data which 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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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
GIS Fundamentals Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Started with GeoServer Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploring the Administrative Interface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Accessing Layers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Adding Your Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Styling Your Layers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Simple Maps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Performance and Caching Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Automating Tasks: GeoServer REST Interface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Securing GeoServer Before Production Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Going Further: Getting Help and Troubleshooting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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GPU Nov 13, 2013
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More than half way through the book and it was fun to read through the book and set up a GIS web server within a day. No problem to follow for the most part. The only problem was to load a shapefiles into MySQL database. Have tried several times and all failed. There might be a few steps that the book did not provide or explain well. Overall, this book provides a thorough introduction to GeoServer and is a good read.
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Paolo Corti Apr 11, 2013
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I have enjoyed very much to read this book. I have been exposed marginally to GeoServer in the last years, but in the last few months I have been starting using it quiet extensively, so it was nice that this book just came out now.First, the writing style of the authors is pleasant and clear, and they manage to teach you a difficult framework in a very structured and efficient way.Most of the concepts taught in the book can be mastered also from online resources, but in my opinion the book is very well structured and it is very nice to have everything packed in a single book.The books can be divided in two parts: an introductory part from chapter 1 to chapter 6 and a more advanced part from chapter 7 to chapter 12.I found the first part a bit boring, maybe because I already mastered most of the concepts with the practice, but found the second more advanced part extremely interesting.Chapter 1 gives you a gentle introduction to GIS in case you have not experience with it.In chapter 2 there is everything you need to know to install GeoServer and all of its components.Chapter 3 gives a tour of the administrative interface.After an introduction to WMS and WFS in chapter 4, in the following chapter the book explain how to add your own data in some of the most common formats (shapefiles, PostGIS, GeoTiff, Oracle Spatial and MySQL spatial) and expose them as web service.Chapter 6 is a long description on how to implement styles using the SLD OGC standard.Then from chapter 7 it starts the challenging part of the book: here you will get the basics to create very basic viewer with JavaScript framework such OpenLayers, GoogleMap API and Leaflet.Chapter 8 gives a gentle introduction on how to dramatically boost WMS performance using a caching solution with the GeoServer caching integrated tool: GeoWebCache.Chapter 9 gives an overview to GeoServer REST interface: this is extremely useful if you are planning to programmatically access to GeoServer. Using REST it is possible to do almost everythin that could be done using the administrative interface, but using code in any language. The chapter is rich of sample using the curl command line utility and Python.Chapter 10 explain GeoServe security (Users, Role and groups), while chapter 11 gives you all the tips needed to use GeoServer in production: Java configuration parameters, disabling unused services, setting of an Apache proxy, and (this is a gem in my opinion, and it has a very clear hand on) how to configure a cluster of GeoServer instances for scaling out.Finally, in the last chapter, the authors provide some more details about WFS and WCS OGC standards.To conclude this review: this is really an excellent book that provide a very good insight to the beginner, but also give you more advanced details to the experienced users. If you are serious about GeoServer development, this is a must have book.
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Bette Lamore Sep 10, 2015
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Everything I expected.
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Jose I. Miranda Nov 29, 2013
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If you want to know how to deploy your maps on the web, this is the book. It covers the basic installation and awesome applications. Must have book for map web developers.
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Peter Moore Jun 18, 2014
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Very useful, helped me get up-to speed with implementing GeoServer very quickly. Highly recommended if you are new to implementing GeoServer within your organisation.
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