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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

Delivering vector data

If a user needs to get your vector data, for example the USA railroads, he can use the Web Feature Service (WFS) protocol. It is a standard protocol defined by OGC that refers to the sending and receiving of geospatial data through HTTP.

When delivering data, the most important thing to define is the data format. Vector data is usually stored in a binary format--think of a shapefile or a PostGIS table--but for practical purposes, we need a more standard approach. Indeed, WFS encodes and transfers information in Geography Markup Language (GML) based on XML.

There exists a few versions of WFS and GML. The current GeoServer release supports the 1.0.0, 1.1.0, and 2.0.0 WFS versions.

You can find the full reference for WFS and GML at the OGC repository at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/is; look for OpenGIS Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard...
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