GeoServer Cookbook

Chapter 3. Advanced Styling

In this chapter, we cover the following recipes:

• Installing the CSS module
• Creating a simple polygon style with CSS
• Adding filters to your style
• Adding labels with CSS
• Creating scale-dependent rules
• Rendering transformations for raster data
• Creating a dot density chart

Introduction

Maps are a powerful representation of data. To produce a beautiful map, very often, you need to use a lot of symbols. For instance, dashing lines for roads under construction, lines with hatching for railroads, appropriate filling for swamps, and points for caves and mines. A map can contain dozens of different symbols; it's your way of expressing your idea of a part of the world to other people.

A standard way to produce maps with GeoServer is using ...