GeoServer Cookbook Paperback – November 27, 2014

I have been using GeoServer for several years for my job as GIS software engineer and I learnt a lot about it and I am still learning as usual in the context of the open source world. I can say that if this book was existed when I started with GeoServer, most likely I would have struggled less, because "GeoServer CookBook" is exactly a very good cookbook for learning how to use and manage GeoServer providing recipes about common spatial activities.Actually it is not a book for everybody who wants to understand the geospatial or web mapping world from the scratch, although it could be used from anyone which needs support for mapping using GeoServer, I deem that the ideal audience for it would be the advanced users or developers/analysts with a smattering of GIS and OGC standards (Open Geospatial Consortium).The author wrote the book making it as a reference guide for advanced tasks from which to take inspiration for the own mapping activities.The book could come out as usuful even for experienced Geo-developers since it allows to discover amazing and not so commonly-used modules of GeoServer.Among the topics covered I would point up the capabilities of GDAL used by GeoServer, especially into the raster formats discussion, the geoprocessing valuable module explained very well, the REST interface implemented by GeoServer and a couple of chapters regarding the optimization of GeoServer for production purposes.In the last, but not least, I liked even the appendix, usually not considered so gripping, about OGC for ESRI Professionals where the author briefly focuses on the difference publishing OGC web services with ArcGIS and GeoServer, very usuful for lovers of ESRI world for understanding GeoServer.Just for keeping consistency, in the book it has been largely used software open source like Openlayers, PostGIS, QGIS and gdal tools.In conclusion, I consider this book could be very useful for a wide range of people which have familiarity with web mapping matters or are very experienced web mapping developers.Have an exciting reading!

GeoServer Cookbook is a great desktop reference with many recipes for integrating GeoServer with other open source software such as QGIS, PostGIS, and GDAL tools. This book is designed for the intermediate to advanced developer and assumes working knowledge of GeoServer, PostGIS and GDAL. Each chapter has "How to do it" and "How it works" sections with supporting code files that make it useful for even the beginner to start learning about GeoServer.Being a beginner myself, I found several topics to be most helpful. Chapter 1 contains easy to follow steps on creating a SQL view and creating a parametric view using PostGIS and GeoServer. Chapter 2's, getting coverages in different formats, explains how to use QGIS to connect to GeoServer and transform raster layers into various formats. It also describes how to install GDAL libraries on the server and add GDAL formats. Chapter 3 steps you through installing and enabling the CSS modules for styling. You can create a simple polygon style, add filters to your style, and add labels with CSS.The following chapters are more advanced. Chapter 4 contains information on Geoprocessing. Chapters 5, 6, and 8 describe how to setup advanced configurations, automate GeoServer configurations with REST, and then monitor and tune GeoServer. Chapter 7 on advanced visualizations explains how to add time to WMS maps and creatively use transparency. The Appendix gives a brief outline of the differences between ArcGIS for Server and GeoServer, as well as highlighting the importance of OGC standards.Although this book is designed for the more advanced user, several chapters are very helpful to the novice developer.

There is a lot of information out there on how to use GeoServer - whether it is the excellent GeoServer documentation, online blog posts, or technical books. However, there are few resources available simply showing you how to get stuff done - until now!This book contains a great set of recipes that are clearly written and easy to follow. Each one guides you through the necessary steps to accomplish the task and then provides a good description of the theory and reasoning behind it. From working with vector and raster data through to advanced visualisation techniques, this book contains recipes for most use cases.This is a great reference book for anyone serious about doing more with GeoServer than simply serving maps, whether you are a beginner or advanced user you will find something useful within the covers of this book.

I am using GeoServer from several years now (since 2010), and even then I found this book very helpful to me.I like the cookbook approach, and I found several recipes to be very interesting and original. One of the things I liked more is that there are recipes also on several GeoServer plugins, for which not always it is possible to find extensive documentation.The author style is coincise and clear, and the reading is very pleasant.In case you are a GeoServer beginner, you'd better do to start with the Geoserver Beginner's Guide, still from the same author and publisher. It is a very nice books as well and it gives maybe a more gentle introduction to the newbie.

When you start your adventure with GeoServer, you will need clear and simple answers for common problems. This is where this book shows its value. It's well organized, clearly says what is given recipe for, how to accomplish it and what else can be useful for you.Author's assumption that you're already familiarized with GeoServer allowed him to skip the very basics topics, which I found good. But inclusion of more advanced topics like tuning and configuring additional modules was even better.Another very good chapter for me was comparison of GeoServer and ESRI based systems.Taking it all into account, I see this book as big help for anyone who needs to use GeoServer. I can recommend it for both beginners and advanced users.

Otimo manual cobrindo vários topicos no uso do geoserver destinado ao usuarioag intermediario. Estilização de camadas, configuração de WPS e vârios outros tópicos são apresentados de maneira clara e didática.