March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
584 pages
14h 31m
English
book
PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition
by Stephen Vincent Mather, Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Thomas Kraft, Mayra Zurbarán, Paolo Corti
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How it works...
In the previous recipe, you were introduced to the basic concepts of the OGC WMS and WFS standards using MapServer. In this recipe, you have done the same using another popular open source web-mapping engine, GeoServer.
Unlike MapServer, which is written in C and can be used from web servers such as Apache HTTP (HTTPD) or Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) as a CGI program, GeoServer is written in Java and needs a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat or Eclipse Jetty to work.
GeoServer not only offers the user a highly scalable and standard web-mapping engine implementation, but does so with a nice user interface, the Web Administration interface. Therefore, it is generally easier for a beginner to create WMS and ...