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GeoServer Cookbook
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GeoServer Cookbook

by Stefano Iacovella
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
5h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4. Geoprocessing

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Installing the WPS module
  • Using the WPS process builder
  • Chaining process – selecting features contained in a polygon
  • Chaining process – building your own task

Introduction

Apart from requesting map and data, GeoServer has another great feature: it can be used as a geoprocessing server. Geoprocessing lets the user perform operations on data, transform them, and also produce new datasets. The general concept is that the user creates a task by selecting the input data and operations to be performed on them.

Geoprocessing is a traditional concept in desktop GIS; in fact, this type of software is created to process spatial data. Later, geoprocessing was migrated to the server side; ...

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ISBN: 9781783289615