Mastering GeoServer

About This Book

• Exploit the power of GeoServer to provide agile, flexible, and low total-cost community projects
• Explore the many different ways that vector and raster data can be exploited to deliver great looking maps
• Extend GeoServer’s functionality by understanding techniques to work with advanced production system configuration, monitoring, and security

Who This Book Is For

If you are a GIS professional who intends to explore advanced techniques and get more out of GeoServer deployment rather than simply delivering good looking maps, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• Install GeoServer in a production environment to make it robust and scalable
• Optimize and exploit your vector and raster datasets from a range of data storage options
• Serve data that conforms to complex schemas
• Utilize proxy data requests to enhance server capabilities or secure data services
• Create great looking maps through alternative approaches for styling and web printing services
• Exploit the spatial analysis capabilities of GeoServer through scripting
• Integrate GeoServer in your corporate security mechanisms
• Monitor the performance and health of your GeoServer instance and optimize it for the production phase