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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):

Iacovella

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

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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

Index

Exploring additional data sources

GeoServer supports several optional formats beyond the built-in data sources. In the remaining part of this chapter, we will explore a quite popular RDBMS that supports spatial data--Oracle.

Using Oracle

Oracle is probably the most widely used commercial RDBMS. It has support for spatial data since release 7, back in the 1980s. The current release, 12, comes with two flavors of spatial data extensions--Oracle Spatial and Oracle Locator. They share the same geometry type and a basic set of operators and functions. Oracle Spatial incorporates a richer set of functions for spatial analysis. Oracle is not free open source software, such as GeoServer or PostGIS, and it has a quite complicated and expensive license model. We will not cover installation here; as long as you are using Oracle, you should have the expertise and/or a proper budget to have it up and running.

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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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