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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Introduction
In this chapter, we will try to give you an overview of how you can use PostGIS to develop powerful GIS web applications, using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web standards such as Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS).
In the first two recipes, you will get an overview of two very popular open source web-mapping engines, MapServer and GeoServer. In both these recipes, you will see how to implement WMS and WFS services using PostGIS layers.
In the third recipe, you will implement a WMS Time service using MapServer to expose time-series data.
In the next two recipes, you will learn how to consume these web services to create web map viewers with two very popular JavaScript clients. In the fourth recipe, you will ...