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1 GeoServer Beginner's Guide Share and edit geospatial data with this open source software server Stefano lacovella Brian Youngblood [ ]..,ru open source^ PUBLISHING community experience distilled BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

2 checking installing spatial Preface 1 Chapter 1: GIS Fundamentals 7 What is GIS about? 7 The foundation of any GIS data 8 Measuring the world 9 Projecting a sphere on a plane 10 Understanding coordinate systems 12 Commonly used coordinate systems 12 Universal Transverse Mercator system 12 Web Mercator 13 Spatial Reference Identifier (SRID) 13 Representing geometrical shapes 14 Modeling the real world with raster data 16 Representing the world 17 exploring OpenStreetMap 20 Adding more colors to your maps 23 Choropleth maps 23 Proportional maps 25 making your thematic map 26 Summary 29 Chapter 2: Getting Started with GeoServer 31 Installing Java 32 checking the presence of Java on Windows 32 the presence of Java on Ubuntu 34 installing JRE on Windows 35 JRE on Ubuntu 36 Installing Apache Tomcat 38 installing Apache Tomcat on Windows 38

3 installing improving manually KML limiting Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu 42 action configuring Tomcat as a service on Ubuntu 45 Installing GeoServer 48 deploying GeoServer on Tomcat 49 Implementing basic security 51 security settings 52 Summary 53 Chapter 3: Exploring the Administrative Interface 55 Understanding the interface 55 About & Status 57 Server Status 57 Locks 58 Connections 58 Memory Usage 58 JVM Version and fonts 58 JAI usage and configurations 58 Update Sequence 58 Resource Cache 59 Configuration and catalog 59 GeoServer Logs 59 Contact Information 59 About 60 reloading configuration 60 Data 61 Layer Preview 61 OpenLayers preview 62 preview 63 Workspaces 64 Stores creating a workspace 65 Layers 68 Layer groups 69 Styles 69 Services WMS WFS WCS the SRS list from WMS 71 Settings 73 Global 73 Verbose Reporting 73 Enable Global Services

4 exploring Table ofcontents Proxy Base URL 74 Logging Profile 74 Log to StdOut 74 Log location 74 JAI changing your logging configuration 74 Tile Caching 76 Security 76 Settings 77 Users, Groups, and Roles 77 Data 78 Catalog security 78 Services security 79 Demos 79 exploring Demo requests 80 SRS List 83 filtering the projection list 83 Summary 85 Chapter 4: Accessing Layers 87 Layer types 88 OpenLayers 88 OpenLayers options 89 Working with tiles 90 Exploring the Web Map Service output formats 92 AtomPub 92 GIF 92 GeoRSS 93 JPEG 94 KML (Plain) 94 KMZ (Compressed) 94 PDF 95 PNG 95 SVG 95 TIFF 95 Web Feature Service 96 CSV 96 GML (plain text) 96 GML2 (compressed GZIP) 97 GeoJSON 97 parsing GeoJSON 97 Shapefile 98 75

5 using adding Extra output options 98 GDAL and OGR output 99 TEXT/HTML 99 the GetFeaturelnfo freemarker template 99 Using WMS Reflector 101 using WMS Reflector 102 Summary 103 Chapter 5: Adding Your Data 105 Configuring your data 105 Configuring vector data sources 106 Adding a properties file 106 Configuring an external Web Feature Service 107 Adding shapefiles 107 shapefiles 107 Using PostGIS 110 installing PostgreSQL and PostGIS 110 loading data in PostGIS and publishing them in GeoServer 116 Configuring raster data sources 120 ArcGrid 120 GeoTiff 120 Gtopo ImageMosaic 121 Worldlmage 121 Configuring an external Web Map Service 121 Exploring additional data sources 122 Using Oracle 122 adding Oracle support in GeoServer 122 Using MySQL 123 adding MySQL data source 124 Summary 126 Chapter 6: Styling Your Layers 127 Understanding Styled Layer Descriptor 127 Editing styles 128 Exploring the standard structure of a style 129 viewing GeoServer bundled styles 130 Loading data for styling 133 Working with point symbols 134 creating a simple point style 134 adding a stroke value 137

6 adding using using mixing creating using labeling labeling classifying adding adding integrating using action dealing with angles and transparency 140 composing simple shapes 141 using external graphics 144 Linestring symbols 146 action creating a simple line style 146 a border and a centerline 148 hatching 149 dashed lines 151 dashing lines and markers 153 Working with polygon symbols 155 a simple polygon style 155 using a graphic filling 157 hatching with polygons 158 Adding labels 160 points 161 action labeling lines 163 polygons 166 Thematic mapping 168 roads 169 Setting visibility 173 enhancing thematic roads map 173 Putting it all together 175 grouping layers 176 Summary 178 Chapter 7: Creating Simple Maps 179 Exploring Google Maps API 180 adding a GeoServer layer as overlay 180 a GeoServer layer as a base layer 185 Using precalculated maps 187 a GeoServer cached layer as overlay 187 customizing Google basemap 189 Interacting with the user 193 action intercepting the Click event 193 Using Open Layers 196 GeoServer and OpenLayers 196 action using GeoRSS with OpenLayers 199 Exploring Leaflet 201 Leaflet with GeoServer layers 201 Summary 203

7 configuring configuring seeding installing managing adding Chapter 8; Performance and Caching 205 Exploring GeoWebCache 206 GeoWebCache storage 206 Disk Quota 209 Setting caching defaults 212 Direct integration WMSC 212 TMS and WMTS 213 Default layers options 213 Default Cached Gridsets 214 Configuring gridsets 215 creating a custom gridset 215 Configuring tile layers 218 configuring layers and layer groups for caching 219 using tiles with OpenLayers a layer 227 Using an external GeoWebCache 231 Summary 233 Chapter 9: Automating Tasks: GeoServer REST Interface 235 Introducing REST 236 Using REST 236 the Requests library 237 Managing data 238 Working with workspaces and namespaces 238 managing workspaces 239 Using data stores 246 data stores 246 Using feature types 252 adding a new shapefile 254 a PostGIS table 256 Publishing data 260 Working with styles 260 adding a new style 260 Working with layers 261 managing layers 262 Summary 265

8 enabling changing creating securing configuring disabling configuring configuring retrieving Chapter 10: Securing GeoServer Before Production 267 Basic security settings 268 strong encryption 269 the master password 270 Defining users, groups, and roles 271 User definition 272 Group definition 272 User/group services 272 Roles definition 272 users and groups 272 defining roles 276 Accessing data and services 277 layers 278 Summary 284 Chapter 11: Tuning GeoServer in a Production Environment 285 Tuning Java 286 Java runtime parameters 286 installing native JAI 288 Removing unused services 291 unused services 291 Setting a proxy 292 a proxy 293 Avoiding service faults 295 a cluster 297 Summary 303 Chapter 12: Going Further: Getting Help and Troubleshooting 305 Going beyond maps 305 Delivering vector data 306 vector data 306 Delivering raster data 310 retrieving raster data 310 Getting help 312 Summary 314 Appendix: Pop Quiz Answers 315 Index 319 Iviil