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GeoServer Beginner's Guide

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

Installing GeoServer

We are well on our way! Go to the GeoServer download page as shown in the following screenshot (http://geoserver.org/download/) and review the installation options available. You will find some different packages for GeoServer. We will use the Web Archive version:

You may select a release from two different branches--Stable and Maintenance. Both of them are built for production purposes, so you can choose whatever you prefer; also, we suggest you select the latest release as it contains all the new features the developer team has just released.

Apart from the Production tab, you may have noted there are two other sections--Development and Archived. Inside the Development section, you will find a nightly build, these releases are not suitable for production as they may be prone to bugs, but it contains all the changes the developers did on the source code, so you can use it to test the fix of a bug you discovered:

Archived contains older releases. These may be useful if...

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Authors (1)

Iacovella

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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