Learning the Open Source GIS Stack: Web Mapping w/ Geoserver

building cloud based GIS solutions for your enterprise

Created by: Arthur Lembo
Professor

What Will I Learn?

• You will learn how to install Geoserver,
• Load spatial and attribute data into Geoserver
• Server vector, raster, and attribute data on the Internet with Geoserver
• You will learn how to serve up data from multiple sources like Postgres, Geopackage, SQLite, and shapefiles.
• You will set up up Geoserver so that it operates like a cloud-based spatial data server.
• You'll learn how to develop back-end server processing to deliver the results of spatial operations. You'll do this with both SQL and CQL.
• You will create an application that allows clients and a server to interact with data and Internet users.
• You will learn the basics of creating a front in web mapping browser, using OpenLayers.
• You'll learn how to broker the relationship between the Internet user and the back-end server. Once you learn this, you'll be able to adapt just about any client/server application.

Requirements

• This is advanced stuff, and we'll be serving data on the Internet as well as from Postgres and PostGIS. It is recommended that you are familiar with Postgres.
• While much of the code will be supplied for you, we'll write some code, so users should be comfortable writing basic scripts.

Target audience

• GIS users who want to learn how to store their data in the cloud.
• GIS developers who want to provide their users with cloud-based spatial analysis tools