Key FeaturesExploit the power of GeoServer to provide agile, flexible, and low -cost community projectsShare real-time maps quicklyBoost your map servers performance using the power and flexibility of GeoServerBook DescriptionGeoServer is an opensource server written in Java that allows users to share, process, and edit geospatial data. This book will guide you through the new features and improvements of GeoServer and will help you get started with it. GeoServer Beginners Guide gives you the impetus to build custom maps using your data without the need for costly commercial software licenses and restrictions. Even if you do not have prior GIS knowledge, you will be able to make interactive maps after reading this book.You will install GeoServer, access your data from a database, and apply style points, lines, polygons, and labels to impress site visitors with real-time maps. Then you follow a step-by-step guide that installs GeoServer in minutes. You will explore the web-based administrative interface to connect to backend data stores such as PostGIS, and Oracle. Going ahead, you can display your data on web-based interactive maps, use style lines, points, polygons, and embed images to visualize this data for your web visitors. You will walk away from this book with a working application ready for production.After reading GeoServer Beginners Guide, you will be able to build beautiful custom maps on your website using your geospatial data.What you will learnInstall GeoServer quicklyAccess dynamic real-time geospatial data that you can easily integrate into your own web-based applicationCreate custom styles for lines, points, and polygons for great-looking mapsCommand GeoServer remotely using RESTTune your GeoServer instance for performanceMove GeoServer into productionLearn advanced topics to extend GeoServers capabilitiesAbout the AuthorStefano 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.Table of ContentsGIS FundamentalsGetting Started with GeoServerExploring the Administrative InterfaceAdding Your DataAccessing LayersStyling Your LayersCreating Simple MapsPerformance and CachingAutomating Tasks: GeoServer REST InterfaceSecuring GeoServer Before ProductionTuning GeoServer in a Production EnvironmentGoing Further: Getting Help and Troubleshooting