Practical GIS

Creating a Web Map

In the previous chapter, we learned how to style spatial data in GeoServer. We started with a simple symbology for raw vector and raster data and proceeded to more advanced and also more aesthetic cartographic representations. We ended with a group layer resembling the composition we created with QGIS's print composer. We also looked at some other independent vector and raster layers, styled and ready for use.

Now we will use our styled data and create some client-side interactive maps to showcase our results. We will use JavaScript to create a web map that can not only use our already styled vector and raster data as image layers using WMS, but can also use raw vector data with WFS. We will cover how to make our maps more ...