GeoServer Beginner's Guide
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Table of Contents
GeoServer Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for action – heading
What just happened?
Pop quiz – heading
Have a go hero – heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. GIS Fundamentals
What is GIS about?
The foundation of any GIS – spatial data
Measuring the world
Have a go hero – move around 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)
Have a go hero – explore EPSG registry
Representing geometrical shapes
Modeling the real world with raster data
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Representing the world
Time for action – exploring OpenStreetMap
What just happened?
Adding more colors to your maps
Choropleth maps
Proportional maps
Time for action – making your thematic map
What just happened?
Summary
2. Getting Started with GeoServer
Installing Java
Time for action – checking the presence of Java on Windows
What just happened?
Time for action – checking the presence of Java on Ubuntu
What just happened?
Time for action – installing JRE on Windows
What just happened?
Time for action – installing JRE on Ubuntu
What just happened?
Installing Apache Tomcat
Time for action – installing Apache Tomcat on Windows
What just happened?
Time for action – installing Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu
What just happened?
Time for action – configuring Tomcat as a service on Ubuntu
What just happened?
Have a go hero – exploring the Tomcat web interface
Pop quiz – setting up Java
Installing GeoServer
Time for action – deploying GeoServer on Tomcat
What just happened?
Implementing basic security
Time for action – improving security settings
What just happened?
Pop quiz – GeoServer security
Summary
3. Exploring the Administrative Interface
Understanding the interface
About & Status
Server Status
Locks
Connections
Memory Usage
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JVM Version and fonts
JAI usage and configurations
Update Sequence
Resource Cache
Configuration and catalog
GeoServer Logs
Contact Information
About
Time for action – manually reloading configuration
What just happened?
Have a go hero – exploring the bug tracker
Data
Layer Preview
Time for action – OpenLayers preview
What just happened?
Time for action – KML preview
What just happened?
Workspaces
Time for action – creating a workspace
What just happened?
Stores
Layers
Layer groups
Styles
Services
WMS
Time for action – limiting the SRS list from WMS
What just happened?
WFS
WCS
Settings
Global
Verbose Reporting
Enable Global Services
Proxy Base URL
Logging Profile
Log to StdOut
Log location
Time for action – changing your logging configuration
What just happened?
Have a go hero – making your own logging level
JAI
Tile Caching
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