Mapping Hacks

Publish Your Geodata to the Web with GeoServer #89

Chapter 8, Building the Geospatial Web

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The Verbose field can be set to indicate whether the returned XML docu-

ments should have pretty printing, that is, nice indents and spacing for

human readability. This can be useful when getting started, but when actu-

ally in production, most clients will likely be computer programs that do not

care at all about pretty printing; indeed the spaces and carriage returns will

just slow down processing slightly. Note that most browsers now will put

XML into human-readable form on their own, so you will likely still be able

to easily read GeoServer’s output if you set Verbose to false.

Other fields can limit the number of decimals returned in

GetFeature

responses, which can help cut down bandwidth (but also accuracy). The

Character Set can be changed to specific encodings, but UTF-8 is recom-

mended. And the Logging Level determines how much information goes to

the logs.

The contact information section is pretty self-explanatory; it will show up in

the WMS-capabilities contact information section (the WFS 1.0 specifica-

tion does not have a matching section, but we anticipate that a future ver-

sion of the specification will).

Applying and saving your changes. To get your new contact information and

configurations to show up in GeoServer, you must first hit the Submit but-

ton. You can preview the changes ...