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This page is intended for beginners who have never used GeoServer before or who have used it only a few times and are learning the basics.

Beginner tutorials

After working through the basics here, we recommend browsing the Full User Documentation.

  1. Quickstart
    • This will get your GeoServer installed and running.
  2. Add Your Own Dataset (Shapefile) (screencast)
    • Here you will learn how to add and view a Shapefile.
  3. Add your own Raster background (TIFF)
    • This will guide you through adding a GeoTiff coverage background layer
  4. Additional Data Format Configuration
  5. Configuring GeoServer's settings
    • An introduction to configuring GeoServer's settings.
  6. Styling your Map (screencasts for new style and edit style)
    • A tutorial on SLD's, the open standard GeoServer uses for Styling.
Keywords

Shapefile: A group of files stored on disk that hold spatial data and other information.

PostGIS: A Spatially enabled database that rocks!

Other tutorials

They cross the full 2 Configuring GeoServer stuff, presenting sectional views of various things that one can do, like getting quickly started, or setting up a shapefile, without getting bogged down in all the options. Feel free to add more, or request a tutorial for any specific tasks or topics that you would like explained more clearly. For a bit of info on the form of tutorials see: Example Tutorial Page.

Full User Documentation

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Anyone have any sample code that isn't so complex? 

For example, I want to call two layers into the mapbox?  Any idea how to do this?

Posted by agpchap at Jun 21, 2006 12:54

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