GeoServer Beginner's Guide -- Table of Contents -- GeoServer Beginner's Guide -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Security -- Settings -- Users, Groups, and Roles -- Data -- Catalog security -- Services security -- Demos -- Time for action - exploring Demo requests -- What just happened? -- SRS List -- Time for action - filtering the projection list.

What just happened? -- Summary -- 4. Accessing Layers -- Layer types -- OpenLayers -- Time for action - exploring OpenLayers options -- What just happened? -- Working with tiles -- Have a go hero - selecting a features subset with filters -- Exploring the Web Map Service output formats -- AtomPub -- GIF -- GeoRSS -- JPEG -- KML (Plain) -- KMZ (Compressed) -- PDF -- PNG -- SVG -- TIFF -- Web Feature Service -- CSV -- GML (plain text) -- GML2 (compressed GZIP) -- GeoJSON -- Time for action - parsing GeoJSON -- Shapefile -- Extra output options -- GDAL and OGR output -- TEXT/HTML -- Time for action - using the GetFeatureInfo freemarker template -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - changing another layer -- ImageMap -- Using WMS Reflector -- Time for action - using WMS Reflector -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - exploring the pdf Reflect option -- Pop quiz - accessing data -- Summary -- 5. Adding Your Data -- Configuring your data -- Configuring vector data sources -- Adding a properties file -- Configuring an external Web Feature Service -- Adding shapefiles -- Time for action - adding shapefiles -- What just happened? -- Using PostGIS -- Time for action - installing PostgreSQL and PostGIS -- What just happened? -- Time for action - loading data in PostGIS and publishing them in GeoServer -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - filtering data -- Configuring raster data sources -- ArcGrid -- GeoTiff -- Gtopo30 -- ImageMosaic -- WorldImage -- Configuring an external Web Map Service -- Pop quiz - adding data to GeoServer -- Exploring additional data sources -- Using Oracle -- Time for action - adding Oracle support in GeoServer -- What just happened? -- Using MySQL -- Time for action - adding MySQL data source -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - adding data -- Summary -- 6. Styling Your Layers -- Understanding Styled Layer Descriptor.

Editing styles -- Exploring the standard structure of a style -- Time for action - viewing GeoServer bundled styles -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - SLD basic elements -- Loading data for styling -- Working with point symbols -- Time for action - creating a simple point style -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adding a stroke value -- What just happened? -- Time for action - dealing with angles and transparency -- What just happened? -- Time for action - composing simple shapes -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using external graphics -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - styling points -- Have a go hero - composing your symbol -- Linestring symbols -- Time for action - creating a simple line style -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adding a border and a centerline -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using hatching -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using dashed lines -- What just happened? -- Time for action - mixing dashing lines and markers -- What just happened? -- Working with polygon symbols -- Time for action - creating a simple polygon style -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using a graphic filling -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using hatching with polygons -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - styling lines and polygons -- Adding labels -- Time for action - labeling points -- What just happened? -- Time for action - labeling lines -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - styling labels for lines -- Time for action - labeling polygons -- What just happened? -- Thematic mapping -- Time for action - classifying roads -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - styling labels for lines -- Setting visibility -- Time for action - enhancing thematic roads map -- What just happened? -- Putting it all together -- Time for action - grouping layers -- What just happened?.

Have a go hero - composing a full map -- Summary -- 7. Creating Simple Maps -- Exploring Google Maps API -- Time for action - adding a GeoServer layer as overlay -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adding a GeoServer layer as a base layer -- What just happened? -- Using pre-calculated maps -- Time for action - adding a GeoServer cached layer as overlay -- What just happened? -- Time for action - customizing Google basemap -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - creating a custom Google map layer -- Interacting with the user -- Time for action - intercepting the Click event -- What just happened? -- Using OpenLayers -- Time for action - integrating GeoServer and OpenLayers -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using GeoRSS with OpenLayers -- What just happened? -- Exploring Leaflet -- Time for action - using Leaflet with GeoServer layers -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - creating mapping apps -- Summary -- 8. Performance and Caching -- Exploring GeoWebCache -- Time for action - configuring GeoWebCache storage -- What just happened? -- Time for action - configuring Disk Quota -- What just happened? -- Setting caching defaults -- Direct integration -- WMS-C -- TMS and WMTS -- Default layers options -- Default Cached Gridsets -- Configuring gridsets -- Time for action - creating a custom gridset -- What just happened? -- Configuring tile layers -- Time for action - configuring layers and layer groups for caching -- What just happened? -- Time for action - using tiles with OpenLayers -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - building a client for tiger county layer -- Time for action - seeding a layer -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - configuring integrated GeoWebCache -- Using an external GeoWebCache -- Summary -- 9. Automating Tasks: GeoServer REST Interface -- Introducing REST -- Using REST.

Time for action - installing the Requests library.