GeoServer beginner's guide : share geospatial data using open source standards / Stefano Iacovella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iacovella, Stefano, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

GeoServer.

Digital mapping.

Geographic information systems.

World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2017.

Biography/History:

Iacovella Stefano: 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: GIS Fundamentals

What is GIS about?

The foundation of any GIS - spatial data

Measuring the world

Moving on to the planet with decimal degree coordinates

Projecting a sphere on a plane

Understanding coordinate systems

Commonly used coordinate systems

Universal Transverse Mercator system

Web Mercator

Spatial Reference Identifier (SRID)

Exploring the EPSG registry

Representing geometrical shapes

Modelling the real world with raster data

Representing the world

Exploring OpenStreetMap

Adding more colors to your maps

Choropleth maps

Proportional maps

Making your thematic map

Summary

Chapter 2: Getting Started with GeoServer

Installing required components

Checking presence of Java on your windows machine

Checking the presence of Java on your Linux machine

Installing JRE on your server

Installing Tomcat on your server

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

Chapter 3: Exploring the Administrative Interface

Understanding the interface

The About &amp

amp

Status section

The Server Status link

The GeoServer Logs section

The Contact Information section

The About GeoServer section

Manually reloading the configuration

The Data section

The OpenLayers preview

The KML preview

The Services section

WMTS

WMS

WFS

WCS

Limiting the SRS list from WMS

Settings

Changing your logging configuration

Tile Caching

The Security panel.

The Settings panel

Users, Groups, and Roles

Data

Catalog security

Services security

Demos

Exploring Demo requests

Filtering the projection list

Chapter 4: Adding Your Data

Configuring your data

Configuring vector data sources

Java properties files

Adding properties files

Using shapefile

Adding shapefiles

Using PostGIS

Installing PostgreSQL and PostGIS

Loading data in PostGIS and publishing them in GeoServer

Configuring raster data sources

ArcGrid

GeoTiff

Gtopo30

ImageMosaic

WorldImage

Adding a raster

Exploring additional data sources

Using Oracle

Adding Oracle support in GeoServer

Loading data in Oracle

Chapter 5: Accessing Layers

Web services

WMS formats

OpenLayers

Exploring the OpenLayers options

Working with tiles

Exploring further Web Map Service output formats

The AtomPub format

The GIF format

The GeoRSS format

The JPEG format

The KML (Plain) format

The KMZ (Compressed) format

The PDF format

The PNG format

The SVG format

The TIFF format

Web Feature service

The CSV format

The GeoJSON format

Parsing GeoJSON

Shapefile

Extra output options

The TEXT/HTML format

Using the GetFeatureInfo freemarker template

ImageMap

Using the WMS Reflector

Chapter 6: Styling Your Layers

Understanding Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)

Editing styles

Installing the CSS module

Exploring the standard structure of a style

Exploring GeoServer bundled styles

Loading data for styling

Working with point symbols

Creating a simple point style

Adding a stroke value

Dealing with angles and transparency

Composing simple shapes

Using external graphics

Composing your symbol

LineString symbols

Creating a simple line style.

Adding a border and a centerline

Using hatching

Using dashed lines

Mixing dashing lines and markers

Working with polygon symbols

Creating a simple polygon style

Using a graphic filling

Using hatching with polygons

Adding labels

Labeling points

Labeling lines

Labeling polygons

Thematic mapping

Classifying roads

Setting visibility

Enhancing thematic roads maps

Putting it all together

Grouping layers

Styling with CSS

Creating a style with CSS

Chapter 7: Creating Simple Maps

Exploring the Google Maps API

Adding a GeoServer layer as overlay

Adding a GeoServer layer as a base layer

Using OpenLayers

Integrating GeoServer and OpenLayers

Using tiled WMS

Mixing WMS and WFS

Exploring Leaflet

Creating a basic map with Leaflet

Chapter 8: Performance and Caching

Exploring GeoWebCache

Configuring GeoWebCache

Configuring Disk Quota

Setting Caching Defaults

Direct integration

WMS-C

TMS and WMTS

Default layers options

Default Cached Gridsets

Configuring gridsets

Creating a custom gridset

Configuring Tile Layers

Configuring layers and layer groups for caching

Using tiles with OpenLayers

Seeding a layer

Using an external GeoWebCache

Chapter 9: Automating Tasks - GeoServer REST Interface

Introducing REST

Using REST

Installing the Requests library

Managing data

Working with workspaces and namespaces

Managing workspaces

Using data stores

Managing data stores

Using feature types

Adding a new shapefile

Adding a PostGIS table

Publishing data

Working with Styles

Adding a new style

Working with Layers

Managing Layers

Administer GeoServer with REST

Managing global settings

Reloading configuration

Managing services

Summary.

Chapter 10: Securing GeoServer Before Production

Basic Security Settings

Enabling strong encryption

Changing the master password

Defining users, groups, and roles

User definition

Group definition

The Users/Groups services

Roles definition

Creating users and groups

Defining roles

Accessing data and services

Securing layers

Chapter 11: Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment

Tuning Java

Configuring Java runtime parameters

Installing native JAI

Removing unused services

Enabling the Marlin rasterizer

Setting a proxy

Avoiding service faults

Configuring a cluster

Chapter 12: 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

Creating a connection pool

Advanced configuration - Monitoring GeoServer

Installing and configuring the monitoring extension

Getting help

Index.

Notes:

Previous edition published: 2013.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed November 14, 2017).

ISBN:

1-78829-407-6

OCLC:

1011595394